Ahura Mazda Definition

ä-ho͝orə măzdə
noun
The chief deity of Zoroastrianism, the creator of the world, the source of light, and the embodiment of good.
American Heritage

Ormazd.

Webster's New World
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pronoun

(Zoroastrianism) The divinity exalted by Zoroaster as the one uncreated Creator, or God.

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Origin of Ahura Mazda

  • Avestan ahurō mazdå the Wise Lord ahurō lord ansu- in Indo-European roots mazdā- wise men-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Avestan (Ahura Mazdā).

    From Wiktionary

Ahura Mazda Sentence Examples

  • This speculation is clearly a development of that which the Iranian cosmology has to tell about the battles between Ahura-Mazda and Angro-Mainyu (Ormuzd and Ahriman).

  • The evil spirit with his wicked hosts appears in the Gathas much less endowed with the attributes of personality and individuality than does Ahura Mazda.

  • He preserves a strange and significant silence with regard to Ahura-mazda, the supreme God of Zoroastrianism, and in fact can hardly have been a Zoroastrian believer at all.

  • This idea has its original source in the apocalypses of Iran, for these are based upon the conflict between Ahura-Mazda (Auramazda, Ormazd) and Angro-Mainyush (Ahriman) and its consummation at the end of the world.

  • The Parsee scriptures require the last ten days of the year to be spent in doing deeds of charity, and in prayers of thanksgiving to Ahura-Mazda.

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