Zoroastrianism में बुराई की भावना; ormazd के आर्क प्रतिद्वंद्वी

ahriman's Usage Examples:

From the dying animal sprang the life of the earth, although Ahriman sent his emissaries to prevent it.

Ahriman, also the son of Time, was the Persian Pluto.

In the Avesta, after the separation of the Iranian stock from the Hindu and the rise of Zoroastrianism, which elevated Ormazd to the summit of the Persian theological system, his role was more distinct, though less important; between Ormazd, who reigned in eternal brightness, and Ahriman, whose realm was eternal darkness, he occupied an intermediate position as the greatest of the yazatas, beings created by Ormazd to aid in the destruction of evil and the administration of the world.

A great cleft runs right through the world: all creation divides itself into that which is Ahura's and that which is Ahriman's.

Thus the Zarvanites represented Ormazd and Ahriman as twin sons proceeding from the fundamental principle of all - Zrvana Akarana, or limitless time.

The essence of the wicked spirit is falsehood: and falsehood, as the embodiment of the evil principle, is much more frequently mentioned in the Gathas than Ahriman himself.

The very daevas are only the inferior instruments, the corrupted children of Ahriman, from whom come all that is evil in the world.

Later the Holy Spirit is made directly equivalent to Ormazd; and then the great watchword is: "Here Ormazd, there Ahriman!"

It is impossible to deny Persian influence in the development of this conception, and that the Persian Ahriman (Angromainyu), the evil personality opposed to the good, Ahura Mazda, moulded the Jewish counterpart, Satan.

This speculation is clearly a development of that which the Iranian cosmology has to tell about the battles between Ahura-Mazda and Angro-Mainyu (Ormuzd and Ahriman).

ahriman's Meaning':

the spirit of evil in Zoroastrianism; arch rival of Ormazd