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Ahriman

noun
1.
The spirit of evil in Zoroastrianism; arch rival of Ormazd.






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"Ahriman" Quotes from Famous Books



... Ahriman, the Hindus called him Siva. He was represented on canvas as a mythological combination of Thor and Cerberus and Pan and Vulcan and other horrible addenda. I do not care what you call him, that monster of evil is abroad, and his one ...
— New Tabernacle Sermons • Thomas De Witt Talmage

... East. A writer the reverse of credulous expresses himself thus on that subject: 'We know that the Scandinavians came from some country of Asia.... This doctrine was in many respects the same with that of the Magi. Zoroaster had taught that the conflict between Ormuzd and Ahriman (i.e. light and darkness, the Good and Evil Principle) should continue to the last day; and that then the Good Principle should be reunited to the Supreme God, from whom it had first issued; the Evil should be overcome and subdued; ...
— Legends of the Saxon Saints • Aubrey de Vere



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