"The word can be interpreted in three ways. It is the word for bee, which has always been a symbol of those who collect the precious 'honey' of traditional wisdom and preserve it for further generations. A collection of legends, well known in Armenian and Syrian circles with the title of ''The Bees'', was revised by Mar Salamon, a Nestorian Archimandrite in the thirteenth century. ''The Bees'' refers to a mysterious power transmitted from the time of Zoroaster and made manifest in the time of Christ.... ''Man'' is Persian meaning as the quality transmitted by heredity and hence a distinguished family or race. It can be the repository of an heirloom or tradition. The word ''sar'' means head, both literally and in the sense of principal or chief. The combination ''sarman'' would thus mean the chief repository of the tradition." Yet another possibility was "those whose heads have been purified", in other words: the enlightened.〔