There are clear indications in the Avesta that the religion of the Medes and Persians before Zoroaster's time agreed in most respects with that of the Indian Aryans, and in a less degree with the beliefs of the Aryans in general. All the Aryan tribes in very ancient times showed great respect for the dead, though they carefully distinguished them from the gods. The latter were principally the powers of Nature, the wind, fire, water, the sky, the sun, the earth, and a host of personifications.
List of Gods : "Persia" - 93 records
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"Zurvan" | Persia |
God of infinite time Persia |
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"Zurvan" | Persian / Iran |
God of temporal time and fate. Once the focus of a cult of Zervanism in which he appeared as the father of AHURA MAZDA, the god of light, and AHRIMAN, god of darkness, in Zoroastrianism. He is perceived as a god of destiny and the controller of all roads which mankind may take, leading ultimately to the otherworld. He was adopted into Manichaean religion. Also Zervan.... |
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"sMan-Bla (physician)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet |
God. One of the more popular Medicine-buddhas and possibly derived from Persian light-religion. Attributes: fruit and waterjar.... |
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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 :
AHURA MAZDA
He is the perpetual, warm and living light that repels the cold, dead darkness in which evil reigns. He is the author of the 7 creations, nam ely sky, water, earth, plants, animals, humans and fire.
ANGRA MAINYU
"The spirit of evil" The very concept of evil, which wants to destroy the world and cover it with darkness. He lives in the darkness of the North, home to all the forces of Evil. In his incessant fight against Ahura Mazda and his creations, he is helped by other demonic beings.
ZURVAN AKARANA
Father of Ahura Mazda and Ahriman, he is the god of infinite time, of boundless time, of time that lasts, but exists only among the Zurvanists as such. He thus gives birth to the principle of good and the principal of evil, in the form of twins. Originally, he was a god of mythology from ancient Iran. It was only during the centuries that followed Zarathoustra's time that followers of the zurvanism (sect) began to consider Zurvan Akarana as the eternal being, above good and evil, who created Ahura Mazda and Ahriman to compel them to fight to dominate creation. That it is more a concept than a god is debatable, but this is not the purpose of this section. He deserves his place among the principal gods.
Spenta Mainyu:
Holy Spirit; protects humanity.
"The holy spirit" "wise Lord"
Vohu Mano (Vohu Manah):
Good thought; protects livestock and herds.
"The good thought" "The good spirit" "The good feeling"
Asha Vahishta (Asha):
Excellent justice, purity, truth; protects the fire.
"The perfect order" "The sacred order" "Better justice"
Khshathra Vairya:
Desirable power, charity, beneficence; protects the sky, minerals and metals.
"Boundless Sovereignty" "Desirable Empire" "Desirable Sovereignty"
Spenta Armaiti:
Holy devotion, right thought, wisdom; protects the earth.
"The beneficent piety" "Holy devotion"
