-
specify which of the
divinities other than
Ahura Mazda are
considered to be
ahuras but does
mention other ahuras in the
collective sense. In the Fravaraneh...
-
Ahura Mazda (/əˌhʊərə ˈmæzdə/; Avestan: 𐬀𐬵𐬎𐬭𐬀 𐬨𐬀𐬰𐬛𐬁, romanized:
Ahura Mazdā; Persian: اهورا مزدا, romanized:
Ahurâ Mazdâ), also
known as Horomazes...
-
natural world,
known as
ahuras and daevas; the
former are to be revered, and the
latter rejected.
Zoroaster proclaimed that
Ahura Mazda was the supreme...
- Magi, also
worshipped Ahura Mazda, the
chief of the
Ahuras. With the rise of
Zoroaster and his new,
reformatory religion,
Ahura Mazda became the principle...
- the
Spenta Mainyu, the "holy/creative spirits/mentality", or
directly of
Ahura Mazda, the
highest deity of Zoroastrianism. The
Middle Persian equivalent...
- and holy. It not only
includes the
Ahuras (a term that in the
Gathas is also used in the
plural but only
includes Ahura Mazda by name), but also all the...
-
Zarathustra received the
religion from
Ahura Mazda. The
Avesta also
names it as the
first of the "sixteen
perfect lands" that
Ahura Mazda created for the Iranians...
- each other, in the
sense that
among Indians Ahuras became evil and
Divan became good, And
among Iranians,
Ahuras became good and
Divan became evil. They sacrificed...
- "partner of
ahura." The
ahura of the name may or may not be a
reference to
Ahura Mazda or to the
other Ahuras.
Following recent scholarship (see
Ahura for details)...
-
texts that the word
evolved to
refer to evil creatures. And the
Zoroastrian ahuras (etymologically
related to the
Vedic asuras) are also only
vaguely defined...
