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Culture or Region: Zoroastrian and Iranian

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Aeshma

Aeshma is wrath once it has become an intelligence. He moves through drunken violence, blood-feud, cruelty and the sudden delight…

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Aka Manah

Aka Manah enters before the hand moves and before the lie is spoken. He is evil thought made personal: the…

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Angra Mainyu

Angra Mainyu is the destructive spirit who looks upon the good creation and answers it with corruption. He does not…

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Apaosha

Apaosha rises against the star Tishtrya and blocks the waters needed by the earth. He is drought given body: a…

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Bushyasta

Bushyasta comes before sunrise, when duty is near enough to be heard but the body still belongs to darkness. Her…

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Druj Nasu

Druj Nasu arrives at the instant the living body becomes a corpse. She enters from the north in the form…

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Druj

Druj is not a simple spoken falsehood. She is the Lie as an active power—the distortion that enters thought, speech,…

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