Fire from heaven; solar power; symbol of the immortal world; spiritual and heavenly perfection. The winged disc is the rising sun, its rebirth, a direct representation of the sun gods, the Egyptian Horus, the Assyrian warrior god Ashur, and the Babylonian Shamash. As the power of light and light itself, the winged circle is a symbol of the "wise gentleman" - Ahura Mazda or Ormuzd - the supreme deity of ancient Iran. The good creator of all things, the spiritual and material world, man and beast. Ahura Mazda made light visible, as taught by Zarathustra. Zarathustra's followers believed that Ahura Mazda resided on high, in perfect goodness and light.
In contemporary Zoroastrian interpretations, the winged circle is considered a symbolic representation of man's spiritual self. The solar cult was especially peculiar to Egypt. The ancient Egyptians believed that the supreme sun god, Ra, was born every day. The sun god is often depicted as a man with the head of a falcon, wearing a sun disk on his head. Horus, as the successor of the god Ra, took the form of a winged sun disk. Isis, the queen of heaven, was also depicted with a solar disk between her horns. The daughter of the sun god Ra Hathor was depicted as a cow with a solar disk of royal divinity between her horns. Hathor is the goddess who rules heaven and earth, the great mother who feeds people with her milk, the ruler of the stars. The greatest importance was attached to her as the goddess of the underworld. The Egyptian god Aten, a form of the sun, whose name literally means "Sun disk", was elevated for a short time and turned into the only true god. All the other gods were banished except Aten who became the lord of all. His first prophet and king Amenophis IV he changed his name to Ihnaton, and built a new capital for his god, Ahtenanon. In images of worship, Aten, the deity whose full name is "Re - Horus - the Horizon who enjoys his name Shu who is the reel", is depicted as a huge red disk from which rays of light radiate that give life to his devotees.
In Hindu iconography, the god Vishnu is depicted as a blue youth holding a conch, a reel, a club and a lotus flower in his hands. The disk is one of his attributes, his deadly weapon. The flaming disc of the color of the sun is an attribute of Krishna, according to Hindu mythology the eighth avatar of the god Vishnu. The illuminating disc destroys ignorance and dispels darkness. In Buddhism, it is an attribute of Vairocana, one of the five great mystical Buddhas. His name means "coming from the sun". The Japanese sun goddess Ametaratsu was considered his manifestation. In Tibetan Buddhism, Vairochana is a celestial being who is omnipresent and radiates the strongest light. A sacred disc made of jade with an opening, in the Chinese tradition represents heavenly perfection.
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