Auramazda

(Baga vazraka Auramazda, etc.) and the Bagha of the Avesta, whose memory is preserved in Baghdad -- the city created by the Gods (?).

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

The name of the Supreme God of the Avestic system is Ahura Mazda (in the Achaemenid royal inscriptions, Auramazda), which probably signifies the All-Wise Lord.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

"To the days, and the nights, and the hours, the months and the years and the feasts of years, be honour and prayer and fulfilment and praise before Auramazda, the All-Wise, for ever and ever and ever."

Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster 1881

He then restored the temples and the worship of Auramazda, as well as he was able; but it soon became evident that the religion was in a disorganised state and that it would be no easy matter to enforce a pure monotheism upon a nation of men who, in their hearts, were Magians, nature-worshippers; and who, through successive reigns, had been driven by force to the adoration of strange idols.

Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster 1881

Auramazda and the six Amshaspands of Heaven, I would it were my love and his friendship!

Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster 1881

"By the name of Auramazda," gasped Darius, "I will not harm thee nor her."

Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster 1881

But the king knew none of these things, and rejoiced daily in the wisdom of his chief counsellor and in the favour Auramazda had shown in sending him such a man in his need.

Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster 1881

By the grace of Auramazda he swore, he was the king of kings and did not make war upon disappointed lovers!

Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster 1881

The interior of the temple was lighted with innumerable lamps, suspended from the ceiling, of bronze and of the simplest workmanship, like everything which pertained to the worship of Auramazda.

Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster 1881

I, for my part, have always inclined to the Hebrew conception of one God -- perhaps that is much the same as Auramazda, the All-Wise.

Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster 1881