Chief deity of Zoroastrianism; source of light and embodiment of good.
1Here Ormazd holds a tribunal and decides the fate of the souls.
2Ahura Mazda or Ormazd is the King of Light; the Good.
3Everything earthly in the light-world of Ormazd had its protecting deity.
4The Achaemenian kings joined him occasionally with Ormazd in their invocations.
5But Ormazd placed them under the control of his planets to restrain them.
6The Zarathustrian law created by Ormazd I take as a plummet.
7He is uncaused, co-eternal with Ormazd, engaged in a perpetual warfare with him.
8These, with Ormazd, are the seven Amshaspands enumerated on page 197.
9Lesser Deities subject to Ormazd: Mithra, Serosh, Vayu, Airyanam, Vitraha, etc.
10The sympathy was increased by the fact that the religion of Ormazd was anti-idolatrous.
11He was the special messenger of Ormazd, and the head of his celestial army.
12Eventually, in the great world catastrophe, he will be defeated by Ormazd and disappear.
13The supremacy of Ormazd was from first to last admitted.
14In processions his chariot, drawn by milk-white horses, followed closely on that of Ormazd.
15Whatever good thing Ormazd creates, Ahriman corrupts and ruins it.
16They were originally innocent and made for heaven, and worshipped Ormazd as their creator.