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	Ahura Mazda
		While there are historical sources indicating that Ahura Mazda comes from indo-iranian religions, in which there were two categories of gods, ahuras and daivas, Ahura Mazda only appears in connection with Zoroastrianism, the religion that has its origins in the preaching of Zarathustra, around 600 BCE.
		Ahura Mazda is not the only god in the universe of Zoroastrianism, and he is not the sole creator of the world.
		Ahura Mazda is the father of two twin spirits, Spenta Mainyu and Angra Mainyu.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/ahura_ma.htm (231 words)

	Ahura Mazda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ahura Mazda is the Avestan language name for an exalted divinity of ancient proto-Indo-Iranian religion that was subsequently declared by Zarathustra (Zoroaster) to be the one uncreated creator of all.
		Ahura Mazda is 'Aramazd' in the Armenian and Parthian languages.
		Central to Zoroaster's perception of Ahura Mazda is the concept of asha (Vedic rta), literally "truth", and in the extended sense, the equitable law of the universe, which governed the life of Zoroaster's people, the nomadic herdsmen of the Central Asian steppes (Boyce, 1975:1ff).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ahura_Mazda (1569 words)

	Ahura Mazdah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		His rule brought "need and misery, hunger and thirst, old age and death, mourning and lamentation, excessive heat and cold, and the intermingling of demons and men." Atar overcame the dragon, who was either consigned "to the bottom of the deep ocean" or chained on a high mountain.
		The divine fire, the spark indwelling in humankind, was the symbol of Ahura Mazdah, and in fire-temples the flame burns perpetually indicating his presence.
		Ahura Mazdah is thought to be a god of prophetic revelation, the sole deity revealing himself to a traditionally polytheistic society not yet ready to receive the totality of his message.
	www.themystica.org /mythical-folk/articles/ahura_mazdah.html (338 words)

	Ahura Mazdah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		His rule brought "need and misery, hunger and thirst, old age and death, mourning and lamentation, excessive heat and cold, and the intermingling of demons and men." Atar overcame the dragon, who was either consigned "to the bottom of the deep ocean" or chained on a high mountain.
		The divine fire, the spark indwelling in humankind, was the symbol of Ahura Mazdah, and in fire-temples the flame burns perpetually indicating his presence.
		Ahura Mazdah is thought to be a god of prophetic revelation, the sole deity revealing himself to a traditionally polytheistic society not yet ready to receive the totality of his message.
	www.themystica.com /mythical-folk/articles/ahura_mazdah.html (338 words)

	TEMPLE OF ZOROASTER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Having received a vision from Ahura Mazda, the Wise Lord, who appointed him to preach the truth, Zoroaster apparently was opposed in his teachings by the civil and religious authorities in the area in which he preached.
		Confident in the truth revealed to him by Ahura Mazda, Zoroaster apparently did not try to overthrow belief in the older Iranian religion, which was polytheistic; he did, however, place Ahura Mazda at the centre of a kingdom of justice that promised immortality and bliss.
		After judgment is passed by Ahura Mazda, the good enter the kingdom of everlasting joy and light, and the bad are consigned to the regions of horror and darkness.
	sangha.net /messengers/zoroaster.htm (2905 words)

	Welcome to God Bless This Mess!: Zoroastrianism/Mazdaism
		Ahura Mazda's existence may have owed something, at least in part, to the Varuna of Vedic India or to an Indo-Iranian ahura or asura, which we might be able to reconstruct by using a comparative method.
		Zarathushtra's creation of Ahura Mazda reveals that the prophet was a great religious reformer, a wise man in search of knowledge and enlightenment, rather than a follower of any traditional doctrine.
		There are also five natural fires, which reside, respectively, in front of Ahura Mazda, in the bodies of men and animals, in plants, in clouds, and in the earth.
	godblessthismess.tripod.com /zoroastrianism.htm (3838 words)

	Zoroastrianism
		Mazda, the oldest of the three Ahuras or guardians of asha, had been previously worshipped as the greatest of the three.
		Ahura Mazda is either described as the "father," or to have "mingled" himself with them, and in one Pahlavi text his creation of them is compared with the lighting of a torch from s torch.
		Ahura Mazda, also referred to as Lord of Wisdom, is believed to be head of the divine heptad.
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/z/zoroastrianism.html (3635 words)

	Ahura Mazda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ahura Mazda (Persian distortions Ormazd, Ormuzd, Hormuz, Ormus, Ohrmizd) - The Wise Lord - is a god of the Zoroastrianism religion in Persia.
		According to Zoroastrianism, the Earth was created by Ahura Mazda as a battlefield to fight Angra Mainyu.
		Atar, Ahura Mazda's son, battled Azhi Dahaka, the great dragon of the sky, and bound it in chains on a high mountain.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/a/ah/ahura_mazda.html (153 words)

	Ahura News :: Ahura uses tricorder-like device to find chemicals
		Ahura launched three years ago, aiming to develop its optical-networking and miniaturization know-how for the telecommunications industry.
		Ahura — whose name comes from Ahura Mazda, a Persian god of truth and wisdom — was started by a trio of engineers who trace their roots back to CoreTek Inc., a telecom company based in Wilmington in the 1990s and acquired by Nortel Networks in March 2000.
		Ahura has 34 employees and expects to have 55 by the end of the year, Schmidt said.
	www.ahuracorp.com /press/pr_itn_20050414.html (585 words)

	Yasna part 6
		The all-observant Ahura is not to be deceived.
		Even he, Ahura Mazda, who through his Dominion appoints what is better than good to him that is attached to his will, but what is worse than evil to him that obeys him not, at the last end of life.
		He, I ween, that Mazda Ahura knoweth among all that have been and are, as one to whom in accordance with Right the best portion falls for his prayer, these will I reverence by their own names and go before them with honor.
	www.hinduwebsite.com /sacredscripts/zoroscripts/ave_yas_06.htm (6185 words)

	Zoroastrianism
		Ahura Mazda called upon a number of lesser good spirits called the to destroy this evil.
		One significant portion of the Avesta is the Gathas, hymns written by Zarathushtra himself to Ahura Mazda.
		Ahura Mazda is good, holy, supreme, and the creator of all things.
	www.meta-religion.com /World_Religions/Zoroastrim/zoroastrism.htm (2111 words)

	Mazda (Ahura Mazda) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ahura Mazda is the abstract and transcendant god of Zoroastrianism.
		The most likely reason was that the name Mazda coincided with founder Matsuda's last name, who was known for his interest in spiritual matters, and may have chosen Mazda in honor of the Zoroastrians, and his own name.
		The faith is ostensibly monotheistic, although Zoroastrianism has a dualistic nature, with a series of six entities (similar in function and status to angels) accompanying Ahura Mazda and forming a heptad that is good and constructive, and another group of seven who are evil and destructive.
	www.red-ice.net /winterwonderland/mazda.html (627 words)

	The Gathas The Hymns of Zarathushtra
		Among them are some addressed to Ahura Mazda expressing the Prophet's veneration for the Holiness of the Divinity, who is Father of the Good-Mind, the Truth, and the Spirit of Benevolence.
		Ahura Mazda establishes their independent existence in the ideal realm of Being.
		It is a dramatic mythologic account of a conference in the abode of Ahura Mazda, where Zarathushtra is chosen as the one to bring the wisdom of Ahura Mazda for the guidance of human life upon this earth, the teachings which came to be called the religion of good conscience.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/Religions/iranian/Zarathushtrian/gathas_the_hymns_of_zarathushtra.htm (4363 words)

	THE NOTION OF DUALISM
		Mardanfarrokh did so by contrasting the dualistic worship of Ahura Mazda (ormazd) the creator God and condemnation of Angra Mainyu (Ahreman) the destructive devil to the monotheistic veneration of Allah who, according to Islamic belief, is the ultimate source of all things good and evil.
		Perhaps the slow but steady spread of Zurvanism, which sought to depict Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu as dualistic twins born from a singular spiritual being or God of time named Zurvan, reflected a desire for a return to the more fluid ethical dualism or even a change to a variety of quasi-monotheism.
		At the level of theology, the magi shifted the balance of power towards Ahura Mazda by elevating dualism using myths cosmology and eschatology --from an ethical rift to a cosmic conflict in which Ahura Mazda would be victorious at the end of time.
	www.ahura.homestead.com /files/IranZaminTwo/Jamshed_Choksey.htm (4211 words)

	AVESTA: KHORDA AVESTA (English): Siroza 1
		To Atar, the son of Ahura Mazda; to the Glory and to the Weal, made by Mazda; to the Glory of the Aryas, made by Mazda; to the awful Glory of the Kavis, made by Mazda.
		To Atar, the son of Ahura Mazda; to king Husravah; to the lake of Husravah; to Mount Asnavant, made by Mazda; to Lake Chaechasta, made by Mazda; to the Glory of the Kavis, made by Mazda.
		To Atar, the son of Ahura Mazda; to Mount Raevant, made by Mazda; to the Glory of the Kavis, made by Mazda.
	www.avesta.org /ka/s1sbe.htm (879 words)

	The Fire Temple
		Fire is the symbol of Ahura Mazda, the one supreme, all-knowing god of Zoroastrianism.
		Ahura Mazda is a white snake and Ahriman a fl one.
		Ahura Mazda is the white king and Ahriman is the fl king.
	www.zenzibar.com /Articles/zoroastrian.asp (524 words)

	Mazda
		In 1990, Mazda published a book called The Globe: In Search of the Origins of Mazda, which was to be distributed to all its American employees on the celebration of their seventieth anniversary.
		Mazda’s goal for a syncretism of religions under the Mazda banner is demonstrated in a promotional campaign now under way at Mazda dealerships across America.
		The superior attitude of the powers at Mazda is startling in the way they portray themselves as humanity’s hope for peace in their mythological global society.
	www.cultlink.com /sentinel/mazda.html (987 words)

	Holy Zend Avesta : Vendidad : Fargard 8 : Purity laws
		Ahura Mazda answered: 'The place in that house whereof the ground is the cleanest and the driest, and the least passed throughb y flocks and herds, by the fire of Ahura Mazda, by the consecrated bundles of Baresma, and by the faithful;
		Ahura Mazda answered: 'It is of sheep or of oxen; not of man nor of woman, except a man or a woman who has married the next-of-kin:these shall therefore procure the urine wherewith the corpse-bearers shall wash their hair and their bodies.'
		Ahura Mazda answered: 'It cannot be passed through again by flocks and herds, nor by men and women, nor by the fire of Ahura Mazda, nor by the consecrated bundles of Baresma, nor by the faithful.
	www.ishwar.com /zoroastrianism/holy_zend_avesta/vendidad/fargard_08.html (4830 words)

	Ahura Mazda - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Ahura Mazda - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Ahura Mazda, the supreme creator god in Zoroastrianism, the religion of Persia (now Iran) before the establishment of Islam in the 7th century.
		Zoroastrianism gradually emerged as the official religion of ancient Iran during the Achaemenid dynasty, which ruled from about 550 bc to 330 bc....
	encarta.msn.com /Ahura_Mazda.html (101 words)

	Ahura Mazda/Angra Mainyu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ahura Mazda is the god of Zoroastrianism (from ancient Persia, now Iran.) Zoroaster was one of the first monotheists; his Ahura Mazda was the one true god, bringer of both light and darkness.
		Ahura Mazda had various personified aspects, and darkness and evil was personified as Angra Mainyu.
		The sun-disk on Ahura Mazda is a smoothed area where a round semiconductor device is mounted.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /~ram/art/sculpture/ahuramazda (425 words)

	Ahriman - Demons, Demonology, and Evil of the Eastern and Asian Cultures
		Zarathustra believed that one of the ahuras, Ahura Mazda, was the supreme god, and chose to be good, while Ahriman chose to be evil.
		Ahura Mazda was thought to be characterized by goodness, light, and he was unlimited in time but not in space.
		Ahura Mazda wanted to free himself from his own limitation in space, but he knew that by doing so, he would have to initiate a struggle with Ahriman, which he did not want to do.
	www.deliriumsrealm.com /delirium/articleview.asp?Post=84 (821 words)

	THE DECENT OF THE FRAVASHIS - (CAIS) ©
		There Ahura Mazda is to be worshiped through the fravashi of all righteous men and women.
		Where again in the Gathas, 34.5,7 we see only Ahura Mazda recognized as sole Deity, all-powerful and omniscient Creator of everything, the Farvardin Yasht describes a dual creation, only the good part of which was performed by Ahura Mazda with the help of the fravashis.
		Ahura Mazda / Ohrmazd, the embodiment of All Wisdom, reasoned with the spiritual beings who dwelt with him - they are the external souls of mankind - asking whether they would choose to descend among humanity to help expedite the vanquishing of evil on earth.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/Religions/iranian/Zarathushtrian/decent_fravashis.htm (2555 words)

	Untitled Document
		At the age of thirty Zoroaster had a vision of the angel Vohu Mana,, who appeared nine times the size of a man. The angel told him there was only one true God, Ahura Mazda, and that he was to become the prophet of Ahura Mazda.
		Zoroaster taught that Ahura Mazda (Who is also given many other names) was the one true God and the nature gods or daevas (devils) his people worshipped were false gods.
		Ahura Mazda reveals himself to man through six modes (called archangels by Western scholars).
	www.ubfellowship.org /archive/readers/601_zoroastrianism.htm (1315 words)

	Avesta: Yasna 28-34
		Mazda Ahura by virtue of His absolute Lordship will grant a perpetuity of communion with Haurvatat and Ameretat, and with Asha, with Khshathra, and with Vohu Manah, to him that in spirit and in action is his friend.
		Of Thy Fire, O Ahura, that is mighty through Right, promised and powerful, we desire that it may be for the faithful man with manifested delight, but for the enemy with visible torment, according to the pointings of the hand.
		The precious reward, then, O Mazda, ye will give by the action of Good Thought to the bodily life of those who are in the community that tends the pregnant cow, (the promise of) your good doctrine, Ahura, that of the wisdom which exalts communities through Right.
	www.thenagain.info /Classes/Sources/Avesta.html (4122 words)

	the mazda lamp story
		General Electric's new service would be available for a price to all lamp makers who subscribed, and the MAZDA name would be widely advertised by GE in almost all of the popular magazines of the day.
		MAZDA Service is centered in the Research Laboratories of the General Electric Company at Schenectady, New York.
		General Electric heavily advertised their MAZDA trademark in one of the most successful advertising campaigns in history.
	www.oldchristmaslights.com /the_mazda_lamp_story.htm (1581 words)

	Ahura Mazda
		In Persian belief, Ahura Mazdah ("Lord Wisdom") was the supreme god, he who created the heavens and the Earth, and another son of Zurvan.
		The dragon was, however, destined to escape and destroy a third of mankind at the final reckoning, before it was slain.
		Ahura Mazdah was the god of prophetic revelation, and bore both Ahriman and Ormazd.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/a/ahura_mazda.html (120 words)

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