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The Saoshyant

The World-Saviour · Astvat-ereta

majorattestedThe end of time, mythicZoroastrianism

The World-Saviour of the end of time, born of the seed of Zoroaster miraculously preserved in a lake, from a virgin who bathes in it. He raises the dead, presides over the last judgment and the flood of molten metal, and brings the Frashokereti — the making-wonderful — when death is undone and the world is restored to perfection. The archetype behind every later saviour who comes at the end of days.

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✦Signature powerRevelationChannels a voice from beyond and remakes a people around it.
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Illustrated storyThe War of Light and DarkThe oldest telling of the oldest war: two spirits, one who chose truth and one who chose the Lie, and a universe made as the battlefield between them. Ahura Mazda lays a trap of light; Angra Mainyu charges into it; and the whole of history — three ages, a chosen prophet, a final saviour born from a lake — is the long campaign to a promised morning when death itself is undone. The root of every light-against-dark story that came after.Begin reading →