Daena

The image on this record is the one Zoroastrian idea that has travelled furthest: a person is met after death by their own self, made beautiful or hideous by what they did, and has to look at it. The registry held the three judges and not her, which left the most-cited scene in the religion with a bench and no witness. The Chinvat Bridge itself is not ingested — it is a place, and this programme records people.

Domains

• conscience
• afterlife judgment

Relations

• presents the soul before: MithraNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing record. The corpus held all three judges of the Chinvat tribunal and not the witness who brings the evidence.Reference treatment: Daena presents the entirety of the person's actions before the divine tribunal consisting of Mithra, the yazata of covenants and truth, Sraosha and Rashnu. (secondary)
• presents the soul before: SraoshaSecond of the three.Reference treatment naming Sraosha, the embodiment of obedience and conscience, as one of the three of the tribunal. (secondary)
• presents the soul before: RashnuThird of the three, and the one holding the scales.Reference treatment naming Rashnu, the deity of justice who holds the scales, as one of the three of the tribunal. (secondary)

Sources

• Daena is the Zoroastrian personification of conscience and religion, who meets the soul at the Chinvat Bridge in a form made by its own deeds and presents its actions before the tribunal of Mithra, Sraosha and Rashnu.: Reference treatments of Daena and of the Chinvat Bridge. (secondary)