Bushyasta

The most characteristically Zoroastrian demon in the list, because the religion's central demand is on action — good thoughts, good words, good deeds — and the thing that opposes a religion of action is not wickedness but lying in bed. She has no relation recorded, and carries a solitary verdict; she is not part of the arch-daeva scheme and no source consulted attaches her to another figure.

Domains

• sloth and oversleeping
• stagnation

Sources

• Reference treatments of Bushyasta and of the daevas in Zoroastrian scripture.