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Demon · ◆ Darkness
Ahriman
majorattested650 BCE to 550 BCE
Angra Mainyu, the Zoroastrian principle of evil and darkness. Eternal adversary of Ahura Mazda, author of death, disease, and all suffering in the world.
Darkness85
Chaos90
Power80
Cunning78
Signature powerThe LieThe eternal destroyer, set against the truth itself.
◈ Open relationship graph →Its universe
The mythic order Ahriman belongs to, who comes before and after in the story of this world.
The same idol, across the ages
Scholars have long read Ahriman as one face of a wider figure that recurs under many names through history: the the adversary.
Read why these are held to be one →Voices & connections
Figures bound to Ahriman, family and rivals within the myth, and the thinkers and writers who shaped how we know them.