Yazata (Avestan: 𐬫𐬀𐬰𐬀𐬙𐬀) is the Avestan word for a Zoroastrian concept with a wide range of meanings but generally signifying (or used as an epithet...
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and 23 Yazatas and in the third month prayers are said for only 28 days (to Ahura Mazda, the six Amesha Spentas and up to Zamyad Yazad, (Yazata of the...
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Zoroastrianism (section Yazata)
in lesser divinities known as Yazatas, who share some similarities with the angels in Abrahamic religions. These yazatas ("good agents") include Anahita...
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Mithra (category Yazatas)
Manichaeans used the name of Mithra current in their time (Mihryazd, q.e. Mithra-yazata) for two different Manichaean angels. The first, called Mihryazd by the...
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of all animals), Mithra, Sraosha (Soroush, yazata of prayer), Rashnu (the Judge), Fravashi, Bahram (yazata of victory), Raman (Ramesh meaning peace),...
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Sraosha (redirect from Sarosh Yazata)
𐬯𐬆𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬴𐬀 IPA: ['sroː.ʃa]), is the Avestan name of the Zoroastrian yazata of "Conscience" and "Observance", which is also the literal meaning of his...
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Apam Napat (redirect from Apam Napat (yazata))
Apam Napat is a deity in the Indo-Iranian pantheon associated with water. His names in the Vedas, Apām Napāt, and in Zoroastrianism, Apąm Napāt, mean "child...
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Abrahamic religions Pre-Islamic Arabian deities Jinn Nabataean deities Persia Yazata, see also Proto-Indo-Iranian religion Elam Baltic deities Latvian deities...
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Festival) is a Zoroastrian and Iranian festival celebrated to honor the yazata Mithra (Persian: Mehr), which is responsible for friendship, affection and...
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Atar (category Yazatas)
the visible presence of Ahura Mazda and his Asha through the eponymous Yazata. The rituals for purifying a fire are performed 1,128 times a year.[citation...
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and comfort. As time passed, the Iranians began to address fire as Atas Yazata (‘’fire divinity’’), while rewarding it with offerings in return for its...
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Zoroastrian angelic hierarchy, with the specific angelic beings called yazatas having key positions in the day-name dedications on the Zoroastrian calendar...
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Rashnu (category Yazatas)
] (Avestan: 𐬭𐬀𐬴𐬢𐬏) is the Avestan language name of the Zoroastrian yazata of justice. Together with Mithra and Sraosha, Rashnu is one of the three...
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Amesha Spenta (category Yazatas)
non-specific sense of the term, Amesha Spenta is then equivalent to the term yazata. Non-specific usage is significantly less common than the use of the term...
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Vayu-Vata (category Yazatas)
benevolent and malevolent, that is, depending on the circumstances, either yazata - "worthy of worship" - or daeva, which in the Gathas is a "god that is...
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Gāh[pronunciation?] (Persian: گاه) is a period of time which is dedicated to a Yazata in Zoroastrianism. Boyce 1979, pp. 32–33 Boyce, Mary (1979). Zoroastrians :...
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of all animals), Mithra, Sraosha (Soroush, yazata of prayer), Rashnu (the Judge), Fravashi, Bahram (yazata of victory), Raman (Ramesh meaning peace),...
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extensions consist mainly of additional invocations of the divinities (yazatas), while the Vendidad is a mixed collection of prose texts mostly dealing...
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Fravashi (category Yazatas)
derives fravashi from fra-vaxsh "to grow forth." Like most other Zoroastrian yazatas, the fravashis are not mentioned in the Gathas. The earliest mention of...
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by Tir." Although Tir does not appear in the Avesta, he is a prominent yazata (angelic divinity) in the Zoroastrian religion. The name also appears in...
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travelers during the Safavid era. The celebration is dedicated to Tishtrya, a Yazata who appeared in the sky to generate thunder and lightning for much needed...
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Anahita (category Yazatas)
also attested in Vedic Sanskrit. As a divinity of the waters (Abān), the yazata is of Indo-Iranian origin, according to Lommel related to Sanskrit Sarasvatī...
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list is expanded sometimes, and include Vahman and Ormazd. Rashnu is the yazata who holds the scales of justice. If the good deeds of the person outweigh...
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Catholic Church Seven Archangels Sopo Archangels, Colombian Baroque paintings Yazata The Book of Tobit is considered to be part of the Old Testament in the Catholic...
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goddess of fire who is Odqan's counterpart Turgmam, goddess of fire Atar, yazata of fire in Persian mythology and Zoroastrianism Komod Pazik, Sakizaya god...
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originally distinct from it. Mithra is closely associated with the feminine yazata Aredvi Sura Anahita, the hypostasis of knowledge. There is a deity Mithra...
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Daena (category Yazatas)
" Alternately, Daena is considered to be a divinity, counted among the yazatas. Daena is a feminine noun which translates to "that which is seen or observed"...
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king by a female deity, representing one of the female Iranian deities (yazata) Anahita or Ashi. Both of these deities are closely linked with the khvarenah...
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Mithras. Although inspired by Iranian worship of the Zoroastrian divinity (yazata) Mithra, the Roman Mithras was linked to a new and distinctive imagery,...
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supreme god, Zoroastrianism believes in lesser divinities known as Yazatas. These yazatas ("good agents") include Anahita, Sraosha, Mithra, Rashnu, and Tishtrya...
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