Ahriman
Also called Angra Mainyu, Drauga, Kharaman.
Ahriman is the destructive spirit of Zoroastrian tradition, the deliberate and unoriginal opponent of Ahura Mazda, who answers every good thing made in creation with a corresponding ruin.
At a glance
- Tradition
- Persian mythology
- Region
- Persia (place of origin)
- Trait family
- The Two-Realmed
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Traits
Read from the figure's description, which a model wrote. Open "why" for the sentence a trait came from.
Omens
- Duality of sky and earth embodiment
why
The tradition presents the opposition as fundamental rather than incidental: he dwells in darkness, he is ignorant where the other is wise, and his defining activity is to counter.
Roles
Judged from the works' own entries, not from the description. Carries: the figure holds the role. Meets: the role is in its stories, held by something it meets.
- Shadow carries both readings
1 citation
- Firdausi, translated by Arthur George Warner and Edmond Warner, The Sháhnáma.
- Father meets
1 citation
- Firdausi, translated by Arthur George Warner and Edmond Warner, The Sháhnáma.
- Hero meets
1 citation
- Firdausi, translated by Arthur George Warner and Edmond Warner, The Sháhnáma.
- Trickster meets
1 citation
- Firdausi, translated by Arthur George Warner and Edmond Warner, The Sháhnáma.
- Wise Old Man meets
1 citation
- Firdausi, translated by Arthur George Warner and Edmond Warner, The Sháhnáma.