Astvat-ereta

The record is filed under the Avestan personal name and carries Saoshyant as an alias, because saoshyant is in origin a common noun that the tradition uses both generally, of any benefactor, and specifically of this figure; filing under Astvat-ereta keeps the individual distinct from the class. The corpus held no part of this scheme. That is a large absence in this particular religion: a world with a datable end, a final battle, a general resurrection and a universal restoration is the thing Zoroastrianism is most often credited with having introduced, and the registry recorded none of it.

Parentage

• Zarathustra

Domains

• eschatological renewal
• final victory over falsehood

Relations

• successor of: Hushedar-mah

Sources

• Reference treatments of Astvat-ereta, of the Saoshyant and of the Frashokereti.