Pādixšāy · With Due Honour

Relics & Credits

The Order carves its own symbols by hand — the Faravahar, the fire-altar, the falcon standard, the map of the Old Dominion, and every glyph are original vector work. But the photographic relics — the true stones of Persepolis, Susa, Babylon, and the fire-temples of Yazd — are the gift of photographers who freely shared them. We honour them here, as the law of Asha and of their licenses requires.

Relic	Photographer / Author	License	Source
The Blue Marble — Earth, 2002 (census world map)	NASA Terra/MODIS, composite by Meow	Public domain	Wikimedia Commons
Map of the Achaemenid Empire, 500 BCE	Cattette	CC BY 4.0	Wikimedia Commons
Faravahar (gold vector), used at the threshold	Shaahin	Public domain	Wikimedia Commons
Apadana staircase relief, Persepolis	Phillip Maiwald (Nikopol)	CC BY-SA 3.0	Wikimedia Commons
Behistun relief of Darius	Leen van Dorp	CC0	Wikimedia Commons
Chak Chak (Pir-e Sabz) shrine	Abolfazl Ahmadi	CC BY-SA 4.0	Wikimedia Commons
Double-griffin (homa) capital, Persepolis	Carole Raddato from Frankfurt, Germany	CC BY-SA 2.0	Wikimedia Commons
Faravahar relief, Persepolis	Majid Taghipour	CC BY-SA 4.0	Wikimedia Commons
Frieze of the Immortals, Susa (Louvre)	Unknown authorUnknown author	Public domain	Wikimedia Commons
Gate of All Nations, Persepolis	Carole Raddato	CC BY-SA 2.0	Wikimedia Commons
Lamassu, Gate of All Nations, Persepolis	A.Davey from Portland, Oregon, EE UU	CC BY 2.0	Wikimedia Commons
Naqsh-e Rostam royal tombs	Diego Delso	CC BY-SA 4.0	Wikimedia Commons
The Cypress of Abarkuh, Yazd Province	Ninaras	CC BY 4.0	Wikimedia Commons
The Cyrus Cylinder, British Museum	Daderot	CC0	Wikimedia Commons
Tomb of Cyrus the Great, Pasargadae	Truth Seeker	CC BY-SA 3.0	Wikimedia Commons
Tower of Silence, Yazd	Diego Delso	CC BY-SA 4.0	Wikimedia Commons
Zoroastrian fire temple, Yazd	Diego Delso	Public domain	Wikimedia Commons
“Zāl Rescued by the Sīmurgh”, Shahnama of Shah Abbas I, c. 1590s	Attributed to Sadiqi Beg	Public domain	Wikimedia Commons
“The Nightmare of Żahhāk”, Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp, c. 1525–35	Mir Musavvir	Public domain	Wikimedia Commons
“Rustam Fights the Dragon”, Shahnama folio, c. 1330–40 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)	Unknown painter; image by The Met	CC0	Wikimedia Commons
“Tahmūras Defeating the Dīvs”, Shahnama of Shah Abbas I, c. 1590–1600	Attributed to Reza Abbasi	Public domain	Wikimedia Commons
Iranshah Ātash Behram, front façade, Udvada	Zarin Amrolia; photograph by Divya Cowasji	CC BY-SA 4.0	Wikimedia Commons
Adrian (Adorian) fire temple, Tehran	Azadi68	CC BY-SA 4.0	Wikimedia Commons
Maneckji Seth Agiary, Fort, Mumbai	DesiBoy101	CC BY 4.0	Wikimedia Commons
Museum of the Zoroastrians, Kerman	Farshid7	CC BY-SA 3.0	Wikimedia Commons
The Investiture of Narseh before Anāhitā — Naqsh-e Rostam	Pentocelo	CC BY-SA 3.0	Wikimedia Commons
Khosrow II crowned by Anahita — Taq-e Bostan	Philippe Chavin	CC BY 2.5	Wikimedia Commons
The Investiture of Ardašīr I by Ahura Mazdā — Naqsh-e Rostam	No machine-readable author provided. Hara1603 assumed (based on copyright claims).	Public domain	Wikimedia Commons
The Ateshgah of Baku — fire temple	Bernard Gagnon	CC BY 4.0	Wikimedia Commons
Avestan manuscript of Yasna 28 (Bodleian MS J2)	Unknown	Public domain	Wikimedia Commons
Darius enthroned — the Treasury Relief, Persepolis	A.Davey from Portland, Oregon, EE UU	CC BY 2.0	Wikimedia Commons
“Fereydun Crosses the Tigris”, Shahnameh folio	Reza Abbasi	Public domain	Wikimedia Commons
Sasanian drachm of Yazdgird I, fire-altar reverse	CNG coins	CC BY-SA 2.5	Wikimedia Commons
Frataraka coin of Vadfradad I — fire-temple & standard	ArchaiOptix	CC BY-SA 4.0	Wikimedia Commons
Gold daric of the Great King — the royal archer	Deflim	Public domain	Wikimedia Commons
Achaemenid horn-vessels and rhyta	Rosemanios from Bejing (hometown)	CC BY 2.0	Wikimedia Commons
Kartir's relief and inscription, Naqsh-e Rajab	Philippe Chavin (Simorg)	CC BY-SA 3.0	Wikimedia Commons
The Derafsh Kaviani — reconstructed royal standard	Oneasy	Public domain	Wikimedia Commons
Map of the Median Empire, c. 600 BCE	Crates	CC BY-SA 4.0	Wikimedia Commons
Investiture of Ardashir II, with Mithra — Taq-e Bostan	Philippe Chavin	CC BY 2.5	Wikimedia Commons
A Navjote (sedreh-pushi) ceremony, Bombay	Berthaud Frères	Public domain	Wikimedia Commons
The Haft-sin table of Nowruz	PersianDutchNetwork	CC BY-SA 3.0	Wikimedia Commons
Gold chariot model — the Oxus Treasure	Marie-Lan Nguyen	Public domain	Wikimedia Commons
The Winged Genius of Cyrus, Pasargadae	Charles Texier, Description de l'Armenie, la Perse et la Mesopotamie, Paris, 1852.	CC0	Wikimedia Commons
The columns of the Apadana, Persepolis	Bernard Gagnon	CC BY-SA 4.0	Wikimedia Commons
Approaching the ruins of Persepolis	A.Davey from Portland, Oregon, EE UU	CC BY 2.0	Wikimedia Commons
Map of the Sasanian Empire, c. 621 CE	Keeby101	CC BY-SA 3.0	Wikimedia Commons
Sasanian silver-gilt vessel (the Anāhitā ewer)	Daderot	CC0	Wikimedia Commons
Cameo of Šāpūr I seizing the emperor Valerian	Unknown	CC BY 2.5	Wikimedia Commons
The grotto reliefs of Taq-e Bostan	Skot	CC BY-SA 4.0	Wikimedia Commons
Silver winged-ibex vase handle (Achaemenid), the Louvre	Jastrow	Public domain	Wikimedia Commons
The rooftops of Yazd at dusk	Julia Maudlin from Lake Oswego, Oregon, USA	CC BY 2.0	Wikimedia Commons
Zoroaster (detail, Raphael's School of Athens)	Raphael	Public domain	Wikimedia Commons

All photographs are drawn from Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons (CC BY / CC BY-SA), CC0, or Public Domain terms. Where a license requires attribution, it is given above and the image links to its source and full license. Original SVG artwork, text, and code are the Order’s own and may be kept freely. The site is wholly static and may be carried to any quiet hearth — or any static host.