An Echosemiotic Analysis of Relation of Nature and Culture in Mina and Leopard Story

Mina and the Leopard is a folkloric love story between a leopard and a red-eyed Mazni girl named Mina, which is important from the point of view of echo semiotics and love for animals, apart from its unique love content. By examining the relationship between "culture", "nature", and "man" and showing the kind of relationships that prevail in a society, semiotics can help reconstruct the wrong relationships between humans and the surrounding world and improve the correct interactions. In this research, using discourse semiotics, which is based on the relationship between language levels (form and content), to identify the tools and equipment of meaning production in the form of processes and in different dimensions of action, tension, emotion, cognitive, aesthetic, etc. is paid. This research uses the method of discourse semiotics to identify and analyze the processes of meaning production and explanation of the discourse systems of the Mina and the Leopard narrative, and analyzes the relationship between humans and animals using the principles of ecological semiotics. The two main characters of the story, Mina and the leopard, have lost their natural human and animal lives due to their attachment to each other, and in fact, with the excitement and magic of the emotional feeling of love, an "animal actor", i.e. the leopard, is far from the semiosphere of animality. And in this process, in the first step, he found a super-animal identity and became a human being with human mental and emotional characteristics, and in the next step, he entered the semiosphere of love for his beloved and sacrificed his life on the way to reach his beloved. On the other hand, Mina, who gets rid of sensuality and human desires, becomes enslaved to animal love, and in the first step she enters the semiosphere of ecological symbols, and in the second step she achieves transcendence with the power of love, and she also enters the semiosphere of love symbols, and thus both stories have always been alive and immortal among the people of Kandlos. The results of this research show how within the semiosphere, through the transformation of human-nature relations, a symbolic ecosystem is formed, and the confrontation between humans and animals in the ecology of this narrative has become a state of interaction and fusion, and moreover, this interactive relationship is the way for the emergence of the myth of love. The interaction of the two semiospheres of man and animal has transformed the "I" and the "other" into a cultural "we", and because of the power of love, the wild animal has been tamed by man, and with this power, the main actor of the story has become a myth of love for animals and the environment. And it has become a symbol of friendship between man and animal. The transfer of signs and symbols from the material and earthly system to the transcendental and mythological system is the channel of culture and history, and in this process the transfer from the material element to mythology is a vital and key issue. The fusion of the two different semiospheres of man and nature has led to the formation of a new ecological semiosphere, where love and loving each other and entering the world of love and romance and immortality are the characteristics of this new semiosphere.