大约公元840年,一个叫瓦赫苏丹的统治者在里海南岸的大山里打猎——这片伊朗山区地势险恶到连阿拉伯大军都啃不下来。然后他看见了改变一切的一幕:一只巨鹰从天而降,稳稳落在一块拔地而起两百米的刀刃般的岩石上。瓦赫苏丹抬头望着那块岩石——三面绝壁,只有一条窄路可以接近,下面是河流——一下子就明白了。这只鹰刚刚告诉他,该在哪里建一座攻不破的堡垒。
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The place
Alamut Castle
鹰的启示
一只鹰选中了一块岩石,一个名字预言了自己的命运,一个女人骑着骡子找回了这一切
c.840 CE (castle founding); 1090 CE (Hassan's capture); 1930 (Stark's expedition)Alamut Castle
故事寓意
“最深刻的智慧不一定来自学者。有时候它来自一只鹰选择在哪里落脚,一个名字里藏着自己命运的日期,还有一个隐秘到让世界花了七个世纪才重新找到的山谷。”
人物
W
Wahsudan ibn Marzuban (Justanid ruler of Daylam who founded the castle)T
The Eagle (whose flight chose the location)F
Freya Stark (British explorer who rediscovered the valley in 1930)H
Hassan-i Sabbah (who fulfilled the name's prophecy)来源
Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh; Ata-Malik Juvayni, Tarikh-i Jahangushay (c.1260); Freya Stark, The Valleys of the Assassins and Other Persian Travels (1934); Peter Willey, Eagle's Nest: Ismaili Castles in Iran and Syria (I.B. Tauris, 2005); UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List, 'Cultural Landscape of Alamout' (2007); Hamideh Chubak, Alamut archaeological reports (2004); Encyclopaedia Iranica, 'ALAMUT'