Angels: A Very Short Introduction, David Albert Jones, pp. 11, Oxford University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-954730-2, ... For example, the most common modern symbol for Zoroastrianism, a winged human figure (termed a faravahar because it is supposed to represent a fravashi), is in some ways a modern invention. Though the symbol is ancient, the name is modern ...
Omnibus IV: The Ancient World, Veith, Wilson, Fischer, Veritas Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-932168-86-0, ... In a Persian version of the emperor cult, the faravahar symbolized the winged sun in Zoroastrianism and also the divine authority of the king ...
