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3 unusual facts about Ahura Mazdā


Ahura Mazda

Five kings took the name Hormizd and Bahram II created the title of "Ohrmazd-mowbad" which was continued after the fall of the Sassanid Empire and through the Islamic times.

In the 2001 video game Severance: Blade of Darkness, Ahura Mazda was the god who created the entire world in which the game takes place.

Naglfar

In his study of treatment of hair and nails among the Indo-Europeans, Bruce Lincoln compares Snorri's Prose Edda comments about nail disposal to an Avestan text, where Ahura Mazdā warns that daevas and xrafstras will spring from hair and nails that lay without correct burial, noting their conceptual similarities.


Mehr Narseh

In the Vendidad, Zurwāndād is mentioned as having had authority, but he was sinful and destructive and disputed the creator of the corporeal world (meaning Ahura Mazda).


see also

Derinkuyu

In the ancient Zoroastrian Vendidad legends exist of how Ahura-Mazda instructed Yima to build an underground refuge very similar to that seen in Derinkuyu.