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The Cemetery of Untold Stories: A Novel (2024) is a work of magical realism and the seventh novel by Dominican-American writer Julia Alvarez.The book follows Alma, a prolific author who, after retiring from her teaching job and writing career, inherits a plot of land in the Dominican Republic where she decides to create a cemetery for her unfinished manuscripts and notes.
The New Persian word فروهر is read as foruhar or faravahar (pronounced as furōhar or furūhar in Classical Persian).The Middle Persian forms were frawahr (Book Pahlavi: plwʾhl, Manichaean: prwhr), frōhar (recorded in Pazend as 𐬟𐬭𐬋𐬵𐬀𐬭; it is a later form of the previous form), and fraward (Book Pahlavi: plwlt', Manichaean: frwrd), which was directly from Old Persian ...
In Avestan language grammar, the fravashi are unmistakably female, while the faravahar symbol is unmistakably male. In the Denkard 's myth of Zoroaster's conception ( Dk. , 7.2.15-47), his frawahr is sent down from heaven within a unique hom -plant to be united on earth with his mortal body ( tanu ) and appointed glory ( xwarrah ). [ 9 ]
"The Faravahar is the most worn pendant among Iranians and has become a secular national symbol, rather than a religious symbol. It symbolizes Good thoughts (پندار نیک pendār-e nik), Good words (گفتار نیک goftār-e nik) and Good deeds (کردار نیک kerdār-e nik), which are the basic tenets and principles of Zoroastrianism."
Close-up detail of the faravahar, an important symbol in Zoroastrianism, as it appears on the Fire Temple of Yazd. I think the image is technically quite good, I like that this example has color (a lot of the other examples on the faravahar page are simply hewn from unadorned stone), and the mild shadows bring out the relief.
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