Indra (the daeva)
Zoroastrian · deity · primordial · deity
The id is `zoroastrian_indra_daeva` and not `zoroastrian_indra`, and the primary name carries the qualifier, because the corpus already holds `hindu_indra` and a bare match would be read as the same figure. IT IS NOT THE SAME FIGURE, and the census records the sweep hit as a FALSE one. What is true, and is worth having in a registry that indexes traditions side by side, is that this name is a god on one side of the Indo-Iranian religious split and a demon on the other — together with Saurva and Nanghaithya, which makes three of the six arch-daevas Vedic gods in origin. That inversion is a fact about the two traditions, not a relation between two individuals, so it is stated here and no cross-tradition edge is drawn.
Domains
- apostasy and frozen thought
Relations
- opposes: Asha Vahishta
Sources
- Reference treatments of the daevas in Zoroastrian scripture and of their Vedic correspondences.