The book on the material of mythology, epic, poetry, as well as works of plastic arts traces various forms of stable symbolic artistic images that existed in the art of Iran from the 5th century. BC almost to the present day. The reconstruction of the meaning that the creators of images gave them, as well as their variable perception, recorded in various comments over the centuries, makes it possible for the author to show their multidimensional nature, to raise the question of their aesthetic value.