Intersemiotic analysis of the icon of Rustam from killing the White Div to the death of his son in the verbal text and visual Text of Shahnama of Tahmasp with an emphasis on the role of the author and illustrator in the believability of the myth

The representation and believability of myth narrated in words has always been of interest to supporters of art and literature during the Iranian-Islamic period. The objectification of a beloved character like Rustam, who is created in the form of words and is the savior of his community, has been the responsibility of illustrators. In various illustrations, illustrators have represented a mythical icon who has always been proud in passing through the hardships and sufferings of his society. In Firdausi's Shahnama, with the help of God, Rustam defeats the enemies of his society with superhuman power. But this heroic myth and wisdom, in an unbelievable story, led his son to his death. The purpose of this research is to discover the differences and similarities in the Icon of the heroic myth of Rustam, from killing the White Div to the death of his son, in the verbal text and visual Text of Shahnama of Tahmasp, and to identify the author's and illustrator's efforts to make the myth's contradictory behavior believable. The research question is: How have the creators of the verbal text and visual Text of Shahnama of Tahmasp narrated Rustam's behavior from killing the White Div to the death of his son in order to make the behavior of the heroic myth believable? This research has been done by collecting data using library, documentary and with the method of intersemiotic comparison and analysis with using Gerrard Genette's Transtextuality approach. The results of the research show that in the intertextuality, the illustrator was implicitly faithful to the verbal text in representing the behavior of the heroic myth and in hypertextuality with Transformation in the form of Transposition, the features accepted for the heroic mythological figure in the verbal text have not been represented in the visual text. The artist did not have the desire to represent the exaggerated description of Rustam's body in the visual text. Despite his interest in the myth of the father, the author, in his words, considers him to be guilty. The creator of the Hypotext, while preserving the distinctive feature of the myth, namely the connection with God, in the verbal text, considered him to lack intelligence and emotion in identifying the child. In killing the White Div , he praises his own myth and in killing his son, he despises his son, considering it to be the result of greed. The illustrator, in conjunction with the verbal text, depicts Rustam as he tries to hide his identity from Suhrab, turns a blind eye to the evidence, and does not respond to his son's efforts to end the campaign, hatred, and companionship with sincerity. His behavior and iconic expressions at the time of killing his child portray him as a helpless and failed human being. The illustrator, with Transformation, had no desire to create the exaggerated image presented in the verbal text as a visual trick to make Rustam's unique abilities believable in the visual hypertext.