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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Zoroastrianism, one of six exalted angelic beings forming the train of Ahura-mazda, or Ormuzd, the good divinity of the Persians. Against them stand arrayed in deadly strife six devs or malignant spirits, followers of Ahriman, the spirit of evil.

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