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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 ...
Although there is no physical description of a fravashi in the Avesta, the faravahar, one of the best known symbols of Zoroastrianism, is commonly believed to be the depiction of one. The attribution of the name (which derives from the Middle Iranian word for fravashi) to the symbol is probably a later
The goddess of the Burney relief presenting a rod-and-ring symbol in each hand. Mesopotamian deity sitting on a stool, holding the rod-and-ring symbol. Old-Babylonian fired clay plaque from Southern Mesopotamia, Iraq. The rod-and-ring symbol is a symbol that is depicted on Mesopotamian stelas, cylinder seals, and reliefs. It is held by a god or ...
"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."
British explorer Richard F. Burton considered the symbol to refer to the goshawk species Accipiter gentilis. [2] Shahbaz could have alternatively referred to another common bird over the skies of the Iranian Plateau : the eastern imperial eagle , though this observation has never been claimed by historians as merited.
A winged sun hovers over a sepulchre filled with water; an alchemical symbol from the Rosary of the Philosophers. The winged sun is a solar symbol associated with divinity, royalty, and power in the Ancient Near East (Egypt, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Persia).
The Nightmare (1781), by Johann Heinrich Füssli, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit. Symbolism, understood as a means of expression of the "symbol", that is, of a type of content, whether written, sonorous or plastic, whose purpose is to transcend matter to signify a superior order of intangible elements, has always existed in art as a human manifestation, one of whose qualities has always ...
Faravahar, believed to be a depiction of a Fravashi (guardian spirit), to which the month and day of Farvardin is dedicated. The 2nd through 7th days are dedicated to the Amesha Spentas, the six 'divine sparks' through whom all subsequent creation was accomplished, and who – in present-day Zoroastrianism - are the archangels.