Nanghaithya
Zoroastrian · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
No cross-tradition edge is drawn to the Ashvins. The name correspondence is a fact about Indo-Iranian religious history and not a relation between two beings, and this programme does not turn philology into edges.
Domains
- discontent
Relations
- opposes: Spenta ArmaitiNon-symmetric.Reference treatment: Nanghait of discontent opposes Spendarmad of 'holy devotion'. (secondary)
Sources
- Nanghaithya is the arch-daeva of discontent, set against the Amesha Spenta Spenta Armaiti of holy devotion, and corresponds in name to the Vedic Nasatya.: Reference treatments of the daevas in Zoroastrian scripture and of their Vedic correspondences. (secondary)