From roughly 2000 BC, the symbol spread to the Levant and to Mesopotamia. It appears in reliefs with Assyrian rulers and in Hieroglyphic Anatolian
as a symbol for royalty, transcribed as literally, "his own self, the Sun. From ca. the 8th century BC, it appears on Hebrew seals, by now as a generic symbol for "power. The symbol evolved into the Farava- har (the "visual aspect of Ahura Mazda) in Zoroastrian Persia"
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180 "... he established a high standard of ethical, and humanitarian philosophy" "Up to the time
of the conquest of Media by Cyrus the Great, Median emperors ruled their conquered
territories as provinces, through client kings and governors. One of the keys to the Achaemenid success (as with most enduring great empires) was their open attitude to the culture and religion of the conquered people, so ironically the Persian culture was the one most affected as the Great King endeavored to melt elements from all his subjects into anew imperial style" -- Reference Wikipedia.org back to 180)
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