New NaqqaliWOMEN OF THE SHAHNAMEH / 02
Where her name returns.
A landscape of names across the poem. Follow an early encounter, a brief reign, or a name that returns long after its first story.
Each rise counts couplets that explicitly name a figure. Valleys mean no name match in that interval; they can still contain her actions, speech, or references by title and pronoun.
The horizontal axis runs through the poem from its first couplet to its last—not through historical years or a character’s lifetime.
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Click a ridge to inspect that interval. Select a name for all matching couplets in the current window. On a narrow screen, scroll the chart sideways.
READ THE POEM BENEATH THE RIDGE
Every rise has an address.
Choose a name or a point in the landscape to read its matching couplets here.
HOW TO READ THIS LANDSCAPE
One shared journey
Every ridge uses the same horizontal axis. Each interval holds the same number of couplets; the last may be shorter. Fine vertical marks locate individual name matches. The curves join interval counts and do not add evidence between them.
Two ways to compare
The shared scale compares actual counts. “Each ridge at its own peak” stretches every nonempty row to the same height to reveal its shape; heights then cannot be compared between women. A zero row stays flat.
Names, carefully separated
The names come from the 50-entry index of women, matched against the New Naqqali translation as published on 22 October 2026. Women who share a name are kept apart. The nurturing Simorgh is included with the principal cast. Later recollections count as name mentions; an absence of matches does not establish an absence from the story.
The ten colors identify the ten books. Other women in the index take the color of the book they are shown near in the constellation, or a neutral tone. The graph shows where the translation names each woman, not every part she plays in the story.
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