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Illustration
A Faravahar or Frawahr symbol in a Zoroastrian Fire Temple in Yazd, Iran, one of the symbols adopted by Zoroastrianism.
This symbol represents a winged guardian or fravashi, an angelic being of the Zoroastrian religion.
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Original image by ninara. Uploaded by Cristian Violatti, published on 17 May 2014 under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this content non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.
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ninara, . (2014, May 17). A Faravahar symbol in a Fire Temple. Ancient History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/image/2637/
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ninara, . "A Faravahar symbol in a Fire Temple." Ancient History Encyclopedia. Last modified May 17, 2014. https://www.ancient.eu/image/2637/.
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ninara, . "A Faravahar symbol in a Fire Temple." Ancient History Encyclopedia. Ancient History Encyclopedia, 17 May 2014. Web. 26 Nov 2020.
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