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Farn is considered a power, or deity, which is interpreted as the material embodiment of the life-giving power of the Sun, divine fire, a divine essence that brings wealth, power and power. Often Farn appears both as a kind of abstract sacred good idea, and as a concrete material symbol, a divine character. Usually in mythology, Farn has common attributes with food, which is often indicated in the Iranian languages by the same word or its derivatives. For example, the mention of this name is found in the performance of the modern traditional Ossetian feast ritual – in one of the toasts, pronounced in strict sequence, an appeal to “Farn of the Universe” follows with a request for the granting of happiness. Sometimes Farn acts as a good spirit – the keeper of the hearth. In some cases, Farn is understood as happiness, a share, fate, that is, in this sense it is comparable with the similar gods of Greek and Roman mythology – Tiche, Fortune. Farn often appears as a symbol of royal power.

But if simpler, it was this sacred animal that carried the soul of the deceased to the land of ancestors, or the land of the gods, the other world. As an example, Aries of Gella (Ella), here it is similar to Sarasvati, in which there was an aries and a swan. The ram image as a symbol of Farn was widely distributed in the Kushan kingdom, Sogd and Bactria.

In the graves of the sacks farn swan

In the graves of Scythians and Sarmatians there are numerous finds of geese-swans, and later on the Volga, such figures were hung from bracelets worn on the deceased

Male Deity in Wahane Aries, Koban Culture

Sarmatians. A feminine deity riding a lioness, probably Durga. GIM, Moscow

Wahana (to sit down, ride something”) – in Indian mythology – an object, a fictional creature or animal used by the gods as a means of transportation (usually a mount). Mounted animals can be either real or mythical, or a mixture of both types. Wahana is a manifestation of the brute energy of the deity, its totem is a symbol of the deity, indistinguishable from whose mount it is (Nandi, the bull, the wahana of Shiva, personifies power, etc.). Wahans, in addition, increase the power of their masters (Durga could not defeat the demon Mahishasura without the help of her wahana – the lion Manashthala) and denote evil forces and vices that are commanded or suppressed by the deity (Skanda, whose wahana is a peacock, has power over vanity.

That is, there is a possibility that the Aryans received the name from their sacred animal Aries (ram), and the Huns (Hans) from their farna, goose (Hans).