Gavaevodata

An animal, and ingested where four Norse horses and a Slavic horse were rejected — because the ground for rejecting those was that they were identified only by a name and an owner. This one is a singular created being with a name, a role in the cosmogony, its own three thousand years and its own death, and it is the source of animal life. Sex is unspecified because the Avestan is a neuter formation and the tradition itself varies between an ox and a cow. Type is 'numen' rather than 'mortal' because it is a made being of the first creation rather than a member of a species, there being no species yet.

Domains

• origin of animal life

Relations

• companion: GayomartReciprocal of the edge on the Gayomart record.Reference treatment of the sole-created Ox accompanying Gayomart in the Avesta. (secondary)

Sources

• Gavaevodata is the sole-created ox of the Zoroastrian creation, made with Gayomart, sharing the fire-seed and the three thousand years of spiritual creation.: Reference treatments of the primeval ox and of the Zoroastrian creation account. (secondary)