Apaosha
Zoroastrian · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
This is the cleanest single instance of the pattern this programme has found in nine traditions. `zoroastrian_tishtrya` was in the corpus with an empty relations array. His one story is a horse-fight with this demon at the sea of Vourukasha, on whose outcome the year's rain depends, and the demon was not in the corpus. The registry held a fight with one fighter in it.
Domains
- drought
Relations
- defeated by: TishtryaNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing record. The corpus held Tishtrya with ZERO relations — a star-yazata whose entire myth is this fight, recorded with no one to fight.Reference treatment: Tishtrya, revived by Ahura Mazda's sacrifice, returns to the battle and vanquishes Apaosha. (secondary)
Sources
- Apaosha is the Zoroastrian demon of drought who meets Tishtrya in the form of a diseased horse, defeats him at first, and is vanquished after Ahura Mazda sacrifices to Tishtrya.: Reference treatments of Apaosha and of the Tishtar Yasht. (secondary)