Honores Mutant Mores

The debate and the historical analysis goes on but being Mr. Fozolie I was quite interested in the symbolism of the sun in our national symbol and its depication as female. It  was depicted as a woman in official seals as recently as Qajar times (//iranian.com/main/blog/fozolie/defence-l...).  The article below makes the link to Mitra:

//www.kavehfarrokh.com/news/the-lion-and-sun-...

The above photograph is of a gate in Samarkand.