Aeshma

CROSS-TRADITION NOTE, stated and not drawn as an edge. The corpus already holds `jewish_ashmedai`, Asmodeus, and Aeshma is generally taken to stand behind that figure: the Asmodeus of the Book of Tobit, who kills the seven husbands of Sarah before Raphael defeats him, carries strikingly similar themes to the Avestan demon of wrath. This registry held the receiving end of that transmission and not the sending end, which is a new variety of the fault this programme keeps finding — the tradition that borrowed was in the corpus and the tradition that lent was not. No `equated-with` edge is written, because the treatment consulted describes similar themes and a likely derivation rather than an identity, and because that kind is symmetric and would rewrite a record in another tradition on the strength of a scholarly reading.

Domains

• wrath
• violence

Relations

• devoured by: AzReciprocated in-batch by Az's devourer-of edge. The most interesting relation in the daeva material: the evil side is not a hierarchy but a thing that eats itself.Reference treatment: Aeshma is, in the end, devoured by the daeva Az. (secondary)

Sources

• Aeshma is the Zoroastrian demon of wrath, carrying a bloody spear, the most prominent daeva of the older texts, and devoured at the end by the daeva Az.: Reference treatments of Aeshma and of the daevas in Zoroastrian scripture. (secondary)