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Fravashi

[fruh-vah-shee]
noun Zoroastrianism.
  1. the soul of a dead ancestor.

Origin of Fravashi

From Avestan
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Historical Examples of fravashi

  • Ormazd began the creation by bringing forth the Fereuers (Fravashi).

    Ten Great Religions

    James Freeman Clarke

  • All this reminds us of the Fravashi of the Avesta and of the Persian monuments.

    Ten Great Religions

    James Freeman Clarke

  • In my remarks on the ka and the fravashi I have merely hinted at the vast complexity of these elements of confusion.

  • Thus the fravashi has the same remarkable associations with nourishment and placental functions as the ka.

  • In fact the Fravashi is not unlike the Egyptian ka on the one side and the Chinese shen on the other.