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Breaking the Saturn Matrix & Exposing the False Ancient gods of the Demiurge

By. Jerry Derecha

The Practitioner of the Demiurge wants to keep you stuck in the Saturn Matrix Cube and take eternal possession of your soul by keeping you trapped within one of his fractal simulations. Exposing all this crap is a way to help to avoid falling into that trap. Radiation Matters & Godgevlamste have done great work exposing these parasitic entities and their earthly representatives. If the content that I’ve been featuring lately has triggered you, I don’t care. Only DemonRats and sociopaths get triggered by truth. Grow up.

Zoroastrianism gives some fascinating insight into the increasingly complex deception that the Demiurge has imposed on the fabric of our reality. Believe me when I tell you that in pains me to learn all that I have about the truth surrounding many of the characters in the Christian Bible(including Jesus) as being nothing more than the sockpuppets of the dark forces who control this Saturn Matrix Cube holographic reality simulation. A world that resembles the land of the dead more than a vibrant Eden-like paradise according to some theories.

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That being said, the mere existence of this perplexing and confusing paridigm and its cast of deceptive characters only lends further credence to the notion that there must be a benevolent creator God to go along with and clash with these malevolent & beguiling forces.

The Dragon / The Devil / Lucifer / Abbadon / Apolloyon / Ahiram / Godyale / Osiris / Zues / Iseous / Cronus / Pan / Loki / Odin / Moloch / Baal / Yahweh / Enki / Thoth / Hermes / Queztecotal(feathered serpent), whatever you’d choose to call him, is clearly trying to usurp and copy someone. There is a spiritual battle of good versus evil that’s been ongoing since the beginning and there are obviously representatives for both sides. That someone who represents the benevolent forces in this war is obviously our creator God, and as bad and as hopeless as things may appear to be, I do believe he is with us and has not forgotten his loyal children. He has directly answered my prayers on more than one occasion. 🙏

Praying has become a somewhat different procedure for me of late, since I won’t dare use the words “Lord”, “Jesus” or even “God” to address the creator, knowing what I now know. I will still cautiously use the “Ahayah Yashiya” designation only because I have to choose something, right? Lol. But I find it’s safer to simply address him as the “Divine Creator”. He can at least see that I’ve been making a legitimate effort to not offend him with Demiurge terminology. I’ve gone through my “Sacred Namer” phase already and provided plenty of research exposing the nature of the neverending iteration of names.

This kind of depth of thought will inevitably force you clash with the Gnostic Mythos and what the true nature of “God” or our creator really is.

I also haven’t completely given up on the notion of their being a “Begotten Son” and Messiah that will return. However, I remain healthily skeptical of this prospect based on the Sun Worship connotation that I believe the Jesus character was built by the practitioner of the Demiurge to be used as to ultimately deceive God’s children. It makes total sense to me now the eery feeling I used to get when going to church and looking at all paintings and statues of Jesus(Lucifer), the Virgin Mary(Lilth) and the rest of the pantheon of Saints(Demons) peering down at me. They’ve always been nothing more than Demonic agents spies of the Demiurge, disguised as Angels and “God“, “god”.

I know many of you have been confused and perplexed by all these YahushuaBenDavid videos that I’ve been posting which contain shocking revelations about the true nature of our reality and tyne true identity of certain religious and historical figures. I don’t want to represent any one single source as being total end-all and be-all of what I would consider to be ansolute truth. There is likely some deception built-into some of the themes of YahushuaBenDavid’s videos as well. I mean, the title of his BitChute channel is “MKUltraNorthAmerica“. So there’s that. And many of his claims are wild in nature to say the least.(e.g. Being abducted by “Aliens” and taken to underground facilities & clashing/speaking with Lilith, Lucifer and the creator “God” in the Astral realm). But I believe him and I do believe that I’m a decent judge of character and in my opinion I am convinced that there is an undeniable preponderance of truthfulness in what he’s putting out there and he seems to have been chosen to do this. If this doesn’t resonate with you, it wasn’t meant to, as the message was not for you in the first place. Kinda like what the “Piano Man(Lucifer)” in “Under the Silver Lake” says.

We as humans still require some faith to go along with our discernment. Plus, it’s not like he’s deceiving the masses or getting any suspicious assistance from anyone or anything. All of his YouTube channels were quickly removed and his BitChute channel has only a mere 360 subscribers and is completely shadow-banned from the public BitChute feed and won’t appear unless you’re subscribed to him. I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone have so many channels pulled so quickly from YouTube. No strikes. No warnings. Just gone. Yet other channels will copy his content verbatim the next day and nothing happens to them. Plus he has really seemed to have gotten under Liliths skin and pissed off a lot of people on YouTube and other platforms. People who have obvious loyalties to the all-seeing-eye Cult. So that’s a good sign in my opinion. Plus he’s funny as heck(working on the swearing) and I can relate to his sentiments on the lameness that permeates throughout our rancid modern(post-modern) social fabric of pop culture putridness and the ideologically disgusting social norms and the pantheon of non-human celebrities that represent them.

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The point is, do not let it dissuade you from continuing to love our original creator. These are nothing more than little details…petty semantics and the works of a lying parasitical devil who’s been deceiving and psiphoning energy from humanity ever since our creator kicked his ass out of heaven.

Don’t get down and out about it and let these revelations instill a feeling of hopelessness. If anything, you should feel liberated from the curses that have been undone simply by the mere act of being made aware of and coming to terms with the harrowing truth of this elaborate ruse that’s being exposed as the veil continues to be lifted in these end times. Don’t give up on humanity. It wasn’t humanity that did this[Covid Genocide/Putting us in a false reality matrix/Deceiving us about everything since the beginning of time]. These are parasitical interdimensional entities that are unable to create anything on their own and are ultimately jealous of us. That’s what they’d want you to do. Give up. They’d do anything to preserve their way of life and keep you from knowing the truth.

I know that I have more of a stomach for this kind of stuff than the average person and am much more fluid and flexible with my beliefs when presented with new evidence than most are able to be. But this is me genuinely putting my best foot forward and making the most sense I can out of the information I have. Don’t ever rely soley on another person to formulate your own spiritual framework. The works of other humans are meant only as guides. Nothing more. My research and insights will always be published publicly and made freely available. Not hidden behind some membership wall like other “truther” sites. I refuse to even weigh the site down with AD’S, which I easily could and make $ from, as I get fairly decent traffic these days(I’ve had to upgrade my hosting plan a few times recently). But that’s not why I do this. These posts are a way for me to organize my thoughts, so I might as well share it.

Source: https://brewminate.com/ahriman-the-devil-of-ancient-and-medieval-zoroastrianism/

Ahriman: The ‘Devil’ of Ancient and Medieval Zoroastrianism

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Ahriman was the “Evil spirit, … whose religion is evil [and] who ever ridiculed and mocked the wicked in hell.”

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Overview

Angra Mainyuis the Avestan-language name of Zoroastrianism’s hypostasis of the “destructive spirit/mentality” and the main adversary in Zoroastrianism either of the Spenta Mainyu, the “holy/creative spirits/mentality”, or directly of Ahura Mazda, the highest deity of Zoroastrianism. The Middle Persian equivalent is Ahriman.

In the Avesta

In Zoroaster’s Revelation

Avestan angra mainyu “seems to have been an original conception of Zoroaster’s.”^[1] In the Gathas, which are the oldest texts of Zoroastrianism and are attributed to Zoroaster, angra mainyu is not yet a proper name.^[a] In the one instance in these hymns where the two words appear together, the concept spoken of is that of a mainyu (“mind”, “spirit” or otherwise an abstract energy etc.)^[b] that is angra (“destructive”, “chaotic”, “disorderly”, “inhibitive”, “malign” etc, of which a manifestation can be anger). In this single instance – in Yasna 45.2 – the “more bounteous of the spirits twain” declares angra mainyu to be its “absolute antithesis”.^[1]

A similar statement occurs in Yasna 30.3, where the antithesis is however aka mainyu, aka being the Avestan language word for “evil”. Hence, aka mainyu is the “evil spirit” or “evil mind” or “evil thought,” as contrasted with spenta mainyu, the “bounteous spirit” with which Ahura Mazda conceived of creation, which then “was”.

The aka mainyu epithet recurs in Yasna 32.5, when the principle is identified with the daevas that deceive humankind and themselves. While in later Zoroastrianism, the daevas are demons, this is not yet evident in the Gathas: Zoroaster stated that the daevas are “wrong gods” or “false gods” that are to be rejected, but they are not yet demons.^[2] Some have also proposed a connection between Angra Mainyu and the sage Angiras of the Rigveda.^[3][4] If this is true, it could be understood as evidence for a religious schism between the deva-worshiping Vedic Indo-Aryans and early Zoroastrians.

In Yasna 32.3, these daevas are identified as the offspring, not of Angra Mainyu, but of akem manah, “evil thinking”. A few verses earlier it is however the daebaaman, “deceiver” – not otherwise identified but “probably Angra Mainyu”^[1] – who induces the daevas to choose achistem manah – “worst thinking.” In Yasna 32.13, the abode of the wicked is not the abode of Angra Mainyu, but the abode of the same “worst thinking”. “One would have expected [Angra Mainyu] to reign in hell, since he had created ‘death and how, at the end, the worst existence shall be for the deceitful’ (Y. 30.4).”^[1]

In the Younger Avesta

Yasna 19.15 recalls that Ahura Mazda’s recital of the Ahuna Vairya invocation puts Angra Mainyu in a stupor. In Yasna 9.8, Angra Mainyu creates Aži Dahaka, but the serpent recoils at the sight of Mithra’s mace (Yasht 10.97, 10.134). In Yasht 13, the Fravashis defuse Angra Mainyu’s plans to dry up the earth, and in Yasht 8.44 Angra Mainyu battles but cannot defeat Tishtrya and so prevent the rains. In Vendidad 19, Angra Mainyu urges Zoroaster to turn from the good religion by promising him sovereignty of the world. On being rejected, Angra Mainyu assails Zoroaster with legions of demons, but Zoroaster deflects them all. In Yasht 19.96, a verse that reflects a Gathic injunction, Angra Mainyu will be vanquished and Ahura Mazda will ultimately prevail.

In Yasht 19.46ff, Angra Mainyu and Spenta Mainyu battle for possession of khvaraenah, “divine glory” or “fortune”. In some verses of the Yasna (e.g. Yasna 57.17), the two principles are said to have created the world, which seems to contradict the Gathic principle that declares Ahura Mazda to be the sole creator and which is reiterated in the cosmogony of Vendidad 1. In that first chapter, which is the basis for the 9th–12th-century Bundahishn, the creation of sixteen lands by Ahura Mazda is countered by the Angra Mainyu’s creation of sixteen scourges such as winter, sickness, and vice. “This shift in the position of Ahura Mazda, his total assimilation to this Bounteous Spirit [Mazda’s instrument of creation], must have taken place in the 4th century BC at the latest; for it is reflected in Aristotle’s testimony, which confronts Areimanios with Oromazdes (apud Diogenes Laertius, 1.2.6).”^[1]

Yasht 15.43 assigns Angra Mainyu to the nether world, a world of darkness. So also Vendidad 19.47, but other passages in the same chapter (19.1 and 19.44) have him dwelling in the region of the daevas, which the Vendidad asserts is in the north. There (19.1, 19.43–44), Angra Mainyu is the daevanam daevo, “daeva of daevas” or chief of the daevas. The superlative daevo.taema is however assigned to the demon Paitisha (“opponent”). In an enumeration of the daevas in Vendidad 1.43, Angra Mainyu appears first and Paitisha appears last. “Nowhere is Angra Mainyu said to be the creator of the daevas or their father.”^[1]

In Zurvanite Zoroastrianism

Zurvanism – a historical branch of Zoroastrianism that sought to theologically resolve a dilemma found in a mention of antithetical “twin spirits” in Yasna 30.3 – developed a notion that Ahura Mazda (MP: Ohrmuzd) and Angra Mainyu (MP: Ahriman) were twin brothers, with the former being the epitome of good and the latter being the epitome of evil. This mythology of twin brotherhood is only explicitly attested in the post-Sassanid Syriac and Armenian polemic such as that of Eznik of Kolb. According to these sources the genesis saw Zurvan as an androgynous deity, existing alone but desiring offspring who would create “heaven and hell and everything in between.” Zurvan then sacrificed for a thousand years.

Towards the end of this period, Zurvan began to doubt the efficacy of sacrifice and in the moment of this doubt Ohrmuzd and Ahriman were conceived: Ohrmuzd for the sacrifice and Ahriman for the doubt. Upon realizing that twins were to be born, Zurvan resolved to grant the first-born sovereignty over creation. Ohrmuzd perceived Zurvan’s decision, which he then communicated to his brother. Ahriman then preempted Ohrmuzd by ripping open the womb to emerge first. Reminded of the resolution to grant Ahriman sovereignty, Zurvan conceded, but limited kingship to a period of 9000 years, after which Ohrmuzd would rule for all eternity.^{[5]:419–428} Eznik of Kolb also summarizes a myth in which Ahriman is said to have demonstrated an ability to create life by creating the peacock.

The story of Ahriman’s ripping open the womb to emerge first suggests that Zurvanite ideology perceived Ahriman to be evil by choice, rather than always having been intrinsically evil (as found, for example, in the cosmological myths of the Bundahishn). And the story of Ahriman’s creation of the peacock suggests that Zurvanite ideology perceived Ahriman to be a creator figure like Ormazd. This is significantly different from what is found in the Avesta (where Mazda’s stock epithet is dadvah, “Creator”, implying Mazda is the Creator), as well as in Zoroastrian tradition where creation of life continues to be exclusively Mazda’s domain, and where creation is said to have been good until it was corrupted by Ahriman and the devs.

In Zoroastrian Tradition

In the Pahlavi texts of the 9th–12th century, Ahriman (written ʼhl(y)mn) is frequently written upside down “as a sign of contempt and disgust.”^[1]

In the Book of Arda Viraf 5.10, the narrator – the ‘righteous Viraf’ – is taken by Sarosh and Adar to see “the reality of God and the archangels, and the non-reality of Ahriman and the demons” as described by the German philologist and orientalist Martin Haug, whose radical interpretation was to change the faith in the 19th century (see “In present-day Zoroastrianism” below). ^[6] This idea of “non-reality” is also expressed in other texts, such as the Denkard, a 9th-century “encyclopedia of Mazdaism”,^[7] which states Ahriman “has never been and never will be.”^[1] In chapter 100 of Book of the Arda Viraf, which is titled ‘Ahriman’, the narrator sees the “Evil spirit, … whose religion is evil [and] who ever ridiculed and mocked the wicked in hell.”

A few chapters later, the Ulema notes that “it is clear that Ahriman is a non-entity” but “at the resurrection Ahriman will be destroyed and thereafter all will be good; and [change?] will proceed through the will of God.” In the Sad Dar, the world is described as having been created by Ohrmuzd and become pure through his truth. But Ahriman, “being devoid of anything good, does not issue from that which is owing to truth.” (62.2)

Book of Jamaspi 2.3 notes that “Ahriman, like a worm, is so much associated with darkness and old age, that he perishes in the end.”^[8] Chapter 4.3 recalls the grotesque legend of Tahmurasp (Avestan: Taxma Urupi) riding Angra Mainyu for thirty years (cf. Yasht 15.12, 19.29) and so preventing him from doing evil. In chapter 7, Jamasp explains that the Indians declare Ahriman will die, but “those, who are not of good religion, go to hell.”

The Bundahishn, a Zoroastrian account of creation completed in the 12th century has much to say about Ahriman and his role in the cosmogony. In chapter 1.23, following the recitation of the Ahuna Vairya, Ohrmuzd takes advantage of Ahriman’s incapacity to create life without intervention. When Ahriman recovers, he creates Jeh, the primal seductress who afflicts women with their menstrual cycles. In Bundahishn 4.12, Ahriman perceives that Ohrmuzd is superior to himself, and so flees to fashion his many demons with which to conquer the universe in battle. The entire universe is finally divided between the Ohrmuzd and the yazads on one side and Ahriman with his devs on the other. Ahriman slays the primal bull, but the moon rescues the seed of the dying creature, and from it springs all animal creation. But the battle goes on, with mankind caught in the middle, whose duty it remains to withstand the forces of evil through good thoughts, words and deeds.

Other texts see the world created by Ohrmuzd as a trap for Ahriman, who is then distracted by creation and expends his force in a battle he cannot win. (The epistles of Zatspram 3.23; Shkand Gumanig Vichar 4.63–4.79). The Dadistan denig explains that Ohrmuzd, being omniscient, knew of Ahriman’s intent, but it would have been against his “justice and goodness to punish Ahriman before he wrought evil [and] this is why the world is created.”^[1]

Ahriman has no such omniscience, a fact that Ohrmuzd reminds him of (Bundahishn 1.16). In contrast, in Manichaean scripture, Mani ascribes foresight to Ahriman.^[9]

In Present-Day Zoroastrianism

In 1862, Martin Haug proposed a new reconstruction of what he believed was Zoroaster’s original monotheistic teaching, as expressed in the Gathas – a teaching which he believed had been corrupted by later Zoroastrian dualistic tradition as expressed in post-Gathic scripture and in the texts of tradition.^[10] For Angra Mainyu, this interpretation meant a demotion from a spirit coeval with Ahura Mazda to a mere product of Ahura Mazda. Haug’s theory was based to a great extent on a new interpretation of Yasna 30.3; he argued that the good “twin” in that passage should not be regarded as more or less identical to Ahura Mazda, as earlier Zoroastrian thought had assumed,^[11] but as a separate created entity, Spenta Mainyu. Thus, both Angra Mainyu and Spenta Mainyu were created by Ahura Mazda and should be regarded as his respective ‘creative’ and ‘destructive’ emanations.^[11]

Haug’s interpretation was gratefully received by the Parsis of Bombay, who at the time were under considerable pressure from Christian missionaries (most notable amongst them John Wilson)^[12] who sought converts among the Zoroastrian community and criticized Zoroastrianism for its alleged dualism as contrasted with their own monotheism.^[13] Haug’s reconstruction had also other attractive aspects that seemed to make the religion more compatible with nineteenth-century Enlightenment, as he attributed to Zoroaster a rejection of rituals and of worship of entities other than the supreme deity.^[14]

These new ideas were subsequently disseminated as a Parsi interpretation, which eventually reached the west and so in turn corroborated Haug’s theories. Among the Parsis of the cities, who were accustomed to English language literature, Haug’s ideas were more often repeated than those of the Gujarati language objections of the priests, with the result that Haug’s ideas became well entrenched and are today almost universally accepted as doctrine.^[13]

While some modern scholars^[15][16] have theories similar to Haug’s regarding Angra Mainyu’s origins,^[11][17] many now think that the traditional “dualist” interpretation was in fact correct all along and that Angra Mainyu was always considered to be completely separate and independent from Ahura Mazda.^[11][18][19]

Anthroposophy

Rudolf Steiner, who founded the esoteric spiritual movement anthroposophy, used the concept of Ahriman to name one of two extreme forces which pull humanity away from the centering influence of Christ. Steiner associated Ahriman, the lower spirit, with materialism, science, heredity, objectivity, and soul-hardening. He thought that contemporary Christianity was subject to Ahrimanic influence, since it tended towards materialistic interpretations. Steiner predicted that Ahriman, as a supersensible Being, would incarnate into an earthly form, some little time after our present earthly existence, in fact in the third post-Christian millennium.^[20]

The Opus Sanctorum Angelorum, a debated group inside the Roman Catholic Church, defines Ahriman as a “demon in the Rank of Fallen Powers”. It says his duty is to obscure human brains from the Truth of God.^[21]

Endnotes

1. Duchesne-Guillemin, Jacques (1982), “Ahriman”, Encyclopaedia Iranica, 1, New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, pp. 670–673
2. Hellenschmidt, Clarice; Kellens, Jean (1993), “Daiva”, Encyclopaedia Iranica, 6, Costa Mesa: Mazda, pp. 599–602
3. Talageri, Shrikant G. (2000). The Rigveda: A Historical Analysis. Aditya Prakashan. p. 179.
4. Bose, Saikat K. (2015-06-20). Boot, Hooves and Wheels: And the Social Dynamics behind South Asian Warfare. Vij Books India Pvt Ltd.
5. Zaehner, Richard Charles (1955), Zurvan, a Zoroastrian dilemma, Oxford: Clarendon
6. Haug, Martin; Charles F. Horne, eds. (1917), “The Book of Arda Viraf”, The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, 7, translated by Haug, Martin, New York: Parke, Austin, and Lipscomb
7. de Menasce, Jean-Pierre (1958), Une encyclopédie mazdéenne: le Dēnkart. Quatre conférences données à l’Université de Paris sous les auspices de la fondation Ratanbai Katrak, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France
8. Modi, Jivanji Jamshedji Modi (1903), Jamasp Namak (“Book of Jamaspi”), Bombay: K. R. Cama Oriental Institute
9. Dhalla, Maneckji Nusservanji (1938), History of Zoroastrianism, New York: OUP p. 392.
10. Haug, Martin (1884), Essays on the Sacred Language, Writings and Religion of the Parsis, London: Trubner.
11. Cf. Boyce, Mary (1982), A History of Zoroastrianism. Volume 1: The Early Period. Third impression with corrections. pp. 192–194
12. Wilson, John (1843), The Parsi religion: Unfolded, Refuted and Contrasted with Christianity, Bombay: American Mission Press pp. 106ff.
13. Maneck, Susan Stiles (1997), The Death of Ahriman: Culture, Identity and Theological Change Among the Parsis of India, Bombay: K. R. Cama Oriental Institute pp. 182ff.
14. Boyce, Mary (2001), Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. Routledge. p. 20
15. Gershevitch, Ilya (1964), “Zoroaster’s Own Contribution”, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 23 (1): 12–38, p. 13.: The conclusion that the Fiendish Spirit, too, was an emanation of Ahura Mazdah’s is unavoidable. But we need not go so far as to assume that Zarathustra imagined the Devil as having directly issued from God. Rather, since free will, too, is a basic tenet of Zarathushtrianism, we may think of the ‘childbirth’ implied in the idea of twinship as having consisted in the emanation by God of undifferentiated ‘spirit’, which only at the emergence of free will split into two “twin” Spirits of opposite allegiance.
16. Duchesne-Guillemin, Jacques (1982), “Ahriman”, Encyclopaedia Iranica, 1, New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, pp. 670–673: The myth of the Twin Spirits is a model he set for the choice every person is called upon to make. It can not be doubted that both are sons of Ahura Mazda, since they are explicitly said to be twins, and we learn from Y. 47.2–3 that Ahura Mazda is the father of one of them. Before choosing, neither of them was wicked. There is therefore nothing shocking in Angra Mainyu’s being a son of Ahura Mazda, and there is no need to resort to the improbable solution that Zoroaster was speaking figuratively. That Ohrmazd and Ahriman’s brotherhood was later considered an abominable heresy is a different matter; Ohrmazd had by then replaced the Bounteous Spirit; and there was no trace any more, in the orthodox view, of the primeval choice, perhaps the prophet’s most original conception.
17. Boyce, Mary (1990), Textual Sources for the Study of Zoroastrianism. University of Chicago Press. p. 16: This Western hypothesis influenced Parsi reformists in the nineteenth century, and still dominates much Parsi theological discussion, as well as being still upheld by some Western scholars.
18. Clark, Peter (1998), Zoroastrianism: An Introduction to an Ancient Faith. Sussex Academic Press. pp. 7–9
19. Nigosian, Solomon Alexander. (1993), The Zoroastrian Faith: Tradition and Modern Research. McGill-Queen’s Press. p. 22
20. Steiner, Rudolph (1985). The Ahrimanic Deception. Spring Valley, New York: Anthroposophic Press. p. 6. Lecture given by Rudolf Steiner in Zurich October 27th, 1919
21. Das Handbuch des Engelwerkes. Innsbruck, 1961. p. 120.

Source: https://occult-world.com/ahriman/

Ahriman

Ahriman
In Zoroastrianism, the Demon of all Demons and the source of all evil. Ahriman originally was a primordial desert spirit who became the personification of evil in Zoroastrianism. As such, he is not immortal, and eventually his reign of terror will be conquered by the forces of good.

There are different legends about the origins of Ahriman as the evil god. In one, Ahura Mazda, the good god, created the universe and twins called Spenta Mainyu (the spirit of Light, Truth, and Life) and Angra Mainyu (the spirit of Darkness, Deceit and Death). The twins fight for supremacy and their battleground is Earth. Over time, Spenta Mainyu became absorbed into Ahura Mazda, and Angra Mainyu became Ahriman.

The battle between the two forces continues and will last for thousands of years, divided into eras. After the fourth era, three saviors will appear, who will destroy Ahriman and all his forces of evil. In a variation of this legend Ahura Mazda created Angra Mainyu in a moment of doubt when he was making the universe.

According to another legend, Ahriman and Ormazd (a contraction of Ahura Mazda) were twins born to Zuvan, the creator deity. Zurvan declared that the firstborn would be supreme ruler. Ahriman ripped himself out of the womb in order to be first. Zurvan was bound by his promise, but he limited the time that Ahriman could rule. At the end of that, Ormazd would take over and reign in goodness and light. The Earth is presently under the rule of Ahriman; that is why there are drought, famine, war, disease, pestilence, and other ills. To aid him in his rule, Ahriman created 99,999 diseases, and six Archdemons, called Evil Mind, Tyranny, Enmity, Violence, Wrath, and Falsehood. He also created a female Demon named AZ and a dragon. The Archdemons struggle against the six archangel amarahspands, or “Bounteous Immortals.”

Ahriman tried to maim the prophet Zarathustra but failed.

A legend about Ahriman says that he had a son named Zohak, whom he trained to be evil. He told Zohak to kill his own father. He disguised himself, however, and Zohak killed someone he thought was his father. Ahriman, again in disguise, became chef of the palace. Zohak was so impressed with him that he offered to reward him. Ahriman asked only to kiss his shoulders. When he did so, Serpents sprang from the spots. Every time Zohak cut them off, they grew back. Ahriman entered in another disguise, as a doctor, and told Zohak that he had to feed the serpents human brains every day. Zohak complied and became Ahriman’s pride. The son ruled for a thousand years and finally was destroyed.

Rudolf Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy, said Ahrimanic forces are intelligent, clever spirits that seek to keep people mired in materialism.

Further Reading:

• Hyatt, Victoria, and Joseph W. Charles. The Book of Demons. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974.
• Mack, Carol K., and Dinah Mack. A Field Guide to Demons: Fairies, Fallen Angels, and Other Subversive Spirits. New York: Owl Books/Henry Holt, 1998.

The Encyclopedia of Demons and Demonology – Written by Rosemary Ellen Guiley -Copyright © 2009 by Visionary Living, Inc.

Ahriman (Angra Mainyu, Anra Mainyu, Aharman) In Persian mythology, the evil spirit, opposed to the good creator god, Ahura Mazda; in the end Ahriman will be destroyed by the forces of good. Though the prophet Zarathustra raised Ahura Mazda to the major rank of god and made Ahriman a lesser deity, in earlier Persian mythology both gods were equals and brothers, sons of the great god of time-space, Zurvan. When the two were conceived, Zurvan decided that whichever came to him first would be made king. When the evil Ahriman heard this in his mother’s womb, he ripped it open, emerged, and approached his father. “Who are you?” Zurvan asked.

“I am your son, Ahura Mazda,” the evil Ahriman replied. “Ahura Mazda is light, and you are black and stinking,” Zurvan declared. While they were speaking, Ahura Mazda came out of his mother’s womb. Zurvan immediately recognized him and made him king. “Did you not vow that to whichever of your sons should come first you would give the kingdom?” Ahriman complained. “You false and wicked one,” Zurvan replied, “the kingdom shall be given to you for nine thousand years, but Ahura Mazda is nevertheless king over you and will triumph after that time.” Ahura Mazda then created the heavens and the earth and all beautiful things, but Ahriman created Demons, snakes, and all evil.

Ahriman is identified with Iblis, the devil in Islamic mythology. In some works Ahriman, rather than the snake of biblical lore, is pictured as an old man offering Adam and Eve the fatal fruit. One early Persian sculpture portrays Ahura Mazda riding on horseback trampling on Ahriman’s snake-covered head.

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Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend, Third Edition – Written by Anthony S. Mercatante & James R. Dow
Copyright © 2009 by Anthony S. Mercatante

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