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  • You seem happy to say that belief in astrology is on the table, while belief in Ahura-Mazda is not.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Voting, Religion, and Public Officials: 2009

  • The conventional argument used on the left and the right to distinguish religion from non-religion is that there is a sufficiently big and homogeneous group of Ahura-Mazda worshipers who illiberally expect their children to follow their same beliefs, therefore they must be a religion and get special treatment vis-a-vis public reason.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Voting, Religion, and Public Officials: 2009

  • Here they had seen the small, compact, bright figure, needing a footstool, glowing like a jewel in too large a box, the spread wings of Ahura-Mazda above his head.

    Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981

  • The creation, completed by Ahura-Mazda in six days by means of the word (Honover), is in the second period destroyed by

    A Comparative View of Religions Johannes Henricus Scholten

  • Angro-mainyus (Ahriman), or the evil one, with his Dews, although subordinated to Ahura-Mazda, gain a place in the Iranian conception of the universe, as the adversary of Ahura-Mazda, and as the cause of evil in the natural and spiritual world.

    A Comparative View of Religions Johannes Henricus Scholten

  • At last, all is purified, and Angro-mainyus himself and his Dews submit themselves to Ahura-Mazda, whose victory is celebrated in heaven with songs of praise.

    A Comparative View of Religions Johannes Henricus Scholten

  • Angro-mainyus, who, appearing upon the earth in the form of a serpent, seduces the first human pair, created by Ahura-Mazda.

    A Comparative View of Religions Johannes Henricus Scholten

  • After this follows, in the fourth period, the victory gained by Ahura-Mazda.

    A Comparative View of Religions Johannes Henricus Scholten

  • Ahura-Mazda, surrounded by the Amesha-Spenta (Amshaspands), or the holy immortals, not until later reduced to seven, is the creator of light and life.

    A Comparative View of Religions Johannes Henricus Scholten

  • Ahura-Mazda (Ormuzd, Greek, [Greek: Osompzês]), a doctrine which he received by divine inspiration through the mediation of the spirit

    A Comparative View of Religions Johannes Henricus Scholten

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