Barman appears in Gustav Davidson’s A Dictionary of Angels (1967) in an entry drawing on accounts of Persian religion. Davidson gives Bahman and Bahram as associated forms.
Davidson’s Persian references
On printed page 70, the dictionary describes Barman as a great mihr, glossed as an angel, appointed over earthly animals except human beings. It also assigns him leadership of thirty angels associated with the days of the month, citing Thomas Hyde’s Historia Religionis Veterum Persarum.
Davidson then draws on The Dabistan, describing Barman in the vocabulary of the amesha spentas and celestial intelligences. These statements document how the later dictionary presents and combines its Persian references.
Religious context
Davidson uses “angel” in a comparative account of Persian religion. Barman’s names and offices belong to that Persian setting, rather than to biblical angelology.
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