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Divinity · ◇ Light

Ahura Mazda

majorattested1000 BCE

The supreme god of Zoroastrianism, the Wise Lord and source of all light, truth, and order. His eternal struggle against Ahriman frames the cosmos as a battle of good and evil.

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Signature powerThe Good MindThe luminous Lord of truth, set forever against the lie.

The same idol, across the ages

Scholars have long read Ahura Mazda as one face of a wider figure that recurs under many names through history: the the sky-father.

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