Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Angru Mainya" | Persia | An evil underworld god |
"Angru Mainya . Angra Mainya" | Persia | Angru Mainya aka Angra Mainya, another name for Ahriman the chief antagonist of Ahura Mazdah. Persia |
God name "Angru Mainyu (evil spirit)" | Persian / Iran | Chthonic underworld god of darkness. The original Zoroastrian name of the chief antagonist of AHURA MAZDA.See also AHRIMAN.... |
God name "Apam Napat" | Hindu / Persia / Vedic | Child of the waters. One of the Ahuras in Old Iranian religion, a beneficent god who is the giver of water to man. Hindu / Persia / Vedic |
God name "Apam Napat (grandchild of the water)" | Persian / Iran | (1) God of fresh water. He provides water in arid regions and suppresses rebellions.(2) God of fresh water. Hindu (Vedic). Mentioned in the Rg Veda, he is described as golden in appearance.... |
"Apaosa" | Persian | Drought personified. Persian |
Goddess name "Aradvi Sura Anahita" | Persia | Another minor goddess. Persia |
"Ardouisur aka Ardousius" | Persia | A female cherub in charge of easy childbirth and breast milk. Persia |
Goddess name "Ardvi Sura Anahita/ Anahita" | Persia | The goddess of rivers & water |
God name "Areimanios" | Greek | Chthonic underworld god. Probably derived from the Persian deity AHRIMAN. Plutarch identifies him as the embodiment of HADES.... |
"Arimanius aka Ahriman" | Persian | Angra Mainya, the carrier of nine hundred and ninety-nine diseases to plague the earth. Persian |
Goddess name "Ar·stat" | Persian | Persian goddess of justice and Order. |
Goddess name "Asi" | Persia | Goddess of wisdom. Persia |
Spirit name "Astovidatu" | Persian | A spirit who divided the bones at death. Persian |
"Azidahaka" | Persia | A serpent with three heads, six eyes and three pairs of fangs. He was the adversary of Yima. Persia |
Goddess name "A·Si" | Persia | Treasure-laden, goddess of treasure hunters. Persia |
God name "Boreas" | Greek / also Roman | God of the north wind. He controlled the storm which destroyed the Persian fleet sailing against Athens. Identified with Winter frosts. According to the Theogony (Hesiod), he is the son of EOS and Astraeos and is of Thracian origin: . . . when Thracian Boreas huddles the thick clouds.... |
Demon name "Buyasta" | Persian | An ancient Persian demon of laziness who tries to prevent people from working. He is one of the Daevas. |
The procreative powers in Nature, animate and inanimate, seeming to be the source of animal and vegetable life, received adoration, which ultimately led to unspeakable corruption. Herodotus tells us that the Persians in his time worshipped the sun, moon, sky, earth, fire, wind and water. Offerings to the gods were laid on a mass of pomegranate twigs (baresman; Sanskrit, barhis), and the flesh of victims was boiled, not burnt. Libations of haoma-juice were poured out, just as in India the soma was the drink of both gods and their worshippers.
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It is complex to treat Persian gods because their importance differs according to different religions :