Az
Sex is recorded as female because the Middle Persian tradition treats Az as feminine; the Avestan noun's gender is the ground for it and the treatment consulted does not state it either way, which is why the weight on this record is medium rather than high. The figure grows enormously in Manichaean use, where Az becomes a principal power — a transmission worth noting in a corpus that already holds seven Manichaean records and did not hold this one.
Parentage
Recorded default; alternative parentage accounts are listed separately below.
No parents recorded in the default.
Parentage accounts
Each account is a separate source claim. The parentage and children listed outside these accounts use the recorded default. Selecting an account in the interactive app updates its lineage, descent classification and inherited-power candidates. Linked pedigree accounts are selected together; other records retain their recorded parentage. Claims of ancestry are not proof of biological descent or attested powers.
- Dēnkard (reported by Malandra): Akoman’s seed
deity by descent in this account.
- parent: Aka ManahMythic origin described as Akoman’s seed, not a biological default or Vedic genealogy.William W. Malandra, “Indra,” Encyclopaedia Iranica XIII/1 (2004), pp.103–105, Iranian tradition and concluding paragraphs (secondary)
Domains
- greed and avarice
Relations
- devourer of: AeshmaReciprocal of the edge on the Aeshma record.Reference treatment of Az devouring Aeshma at the end. (secondary)
Sources
- Az is the Zoroastrian daeva of greed and avarice, who devours the demon of wrath at the end.: Reference treatments of Az and of the daevas in Zoroastrian scripture. (secondary)