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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.
◈ Open relationship graph →Its universe
The mythic order Ahura Mazda belongs to, who comes before and after in the story of this world.
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.
Read why these are held to be one →Voices & connections
Figures bound to Ahura Mazda, family and rivals within the myth, and the thinkers and writers who shaped how we know them.