Homeland’s folk, ceremonial, and popular songs might be considered “vernacular”, in the sense that they are known and appreciated by a major part of the society, as opposed to the country’s art music, which belongs for the most part to the intellectuals.Folkloric items, such as folk-tales, riddles, songs, and everyday-life narratives, were collected through the discovery and translation of the Avesta, that is a collection of ancient persian religious texts.