He has encraved Shahmaran on the brass tray in front of him... He is standing, with his back on the wall. He isn't aware that I am shooting photos. It is clear that he is wandering so-mewhere in deep... The master of snakes is on the brass tray in front of him. He made Shahmaran with his own hands... He seems to have chatted with Shahmaran... He looks deep. His conscience is misty. He has fallen into the legend. You shouldn't touch him till he escapes from dreams. He is now be-side Shahmaran, Master of the Sna-kes... The story goes on moving in his dreams...What is in my mind seems to fall on the tray. Are the legends true? Or are they artistic expres-sions of past ages... I perceive them like that. These words have lived for centuries. The legend of Shahmaran, Lokman Physician has lived for years, isn't this permanence? According to the legend, when Shahmaran was setting the human being to daylight he knew that he himself would die because of this man. Why does he accept to be killed so easy? When he is killed and boiled in water, his broth kills the vizier but heals the princess and present the Lokman Physician the secret of immortality. There is everything in the legend. Centuries ago, the human being loaded all his feelings to this legend. There is treachery, there is healing and punishment. But most important of all, there is a search at the end of this legend. The human being is searching immortality. During centuries, human being has always thought about this. Today, he is still thinking about this. The scientists try to make humans live longer, they are always searching immortality... Is immortality in the body or in what is created? In the legend of Shahmaran, the answer to this question is very clear. Lokman Physician couldn't find immortality among billions of herbs and flowers. But a narration has been immortal. The inhabitant of Mardin encraves the immortal legend onto the copper. The motifs of Shahmaran will be hanged on a wall. Human beings will look at these motifs and remember the story narrating the age old legend. The legend of Shahmaran will go on living.