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- noun Plural form of
daeva .
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Examples
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Theyre all over the world, in their different formsGreek daemons, Persian daevas, Hindu asuras, Japanese oni.
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009
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Legend has it that after defeating the demons daevas, King Jamshid had them lift his throne into the sky.
Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008
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Theyre all over the world, in their different formsGreek daemons, Persian daevas, Hindu asuras, Japanese oni.
The Mortal Instruments: Book One: City of Bones Cassandra Clare 2007
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Over against the good God, Ahura Mazda, with his hierarchy of holy spirits, there is arrayed the dark kingdom of demons, or daevas, under Anro Mainyus (Ahriman), the cruel Evil Spirit, the Demon of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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But whereas the devas of Indian theology are good and beneficent gods, the daevas of the Avesta are hateful spirits of evil.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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But without abandoning history (i.e., tradition) we would revert for a moment to the pre-Indian period and point out that Zarathustra's rejection of the _daevas_ which must be the same _devas_ that are worshipped in India, proves that
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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'divas' (daevas); the Hindus chose the former, the Iranians the latter.
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877
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Face to face with the hierarchy of celestial spirits is a diabolical one, that of the daevas (demons, Pahlavi and Mod.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Of demigods of evil type the _Y [= a] tus_ are both Hindu and Iranian, but the priest-names of the one religion are evil names in the other, as the _devas_, gods, of one are the _daevas_, demons, of the other. [
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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Hindu brethren, they developed no capacity for organizing an elaborate pantheon -- they were practically monolatrous, were content with an all-sufficient Good Spirit (the Bad Spirit being tolerated as an intellectual necessity), gradually subordinated to him such gods as the popular feeling retained, and relegated to the sphere of evil the host of inferior hurtful spirits or gods (_daevas_) whose existence they could not deny. [
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877
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