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