Sam

The registry held Zal with an empty parentIds array and held his son Rostam with both parents named. Two generations above Rostam the genealogy simply stopped, in a corpus whose whole subject is descent.

Parentage

• parent: Nariman

Domains

• heroic championship

Relations

• father of: ZalNon-symmetric and recorded as a relation rather than in Zal's parentIds, because Zal's record already exists — the corpus holds him with an EMPTY parentIds array — and this batch does not modify pre-existing records.Reference treatment: Sam was the son of Nariman and father to Zal, and abandoned him in the Alborz mountains because of the colour of his hair. (secondary)
• abandoned: ZalRecorded as a second, separate edge rather than folded into the first, because the abandonment is not an incident of the fatherhood in this story — it is the event the entire Sistan cycle proceeds from, and a reader following edges should meet it.Reference treatment: Zal's father Sam abandoned him when he was a child because of the unusual colour of his hair, leaving him in the mountains of Alborz to die. (secondary)

Sources

• Sam is the son of Nariman and the father of Zal, whom he abandoned in the Alborz mountains for being born white-haired and later reclaimed after a dream.: Reference treatments of Sam, of Zal and of the Simurgh. (secondary)