The Kremlin had invested $22bn in preparing for that 2012 event - far more than most countries spend to hold the Olympic Games - mainly to re-invigorate the sagging infrastructure of Vladivostok, a city of 600,000 seven time-zones ahead of Moscow, and to turn the city's once almost inaccessible Russky Island into a world-class conference venue.
The Golden Spiral is derived from the âgolden rectangleâ, which is a unique rectangle having the golden ratio. The mystical Golden Spiral and Golden Ratio are to be found throughout Nature. In fact, they are present everywhere in the universe. From the curve of the human ear, to the human bone structure, to the growth pattern of leaves and flowers, to the spirals of a nautilus seashell or to the spirals of galaxies.
Whatever the origin of the word, the use of the word faravahar to describe the Winged Disc is modern. No one knows what the ancient Persians called their winged disc. But the history of the symbol, both before and during its Persian use, has a continuous meaning, and that is one of divine favor for a king.his, then, is what the Winged Disc signifies both for the ancients and for us: the shining khvarenah, or farr.. The Faravahar has another possible meaning, and that is its association with fravashi. Earlier I mentioned that J.M. Unvala identified the Winged Disc as a symbol of fravashi.