Spenta Mainyu
Zoroastrian · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
The Holy or Bounteous Spirit of Ahura Mazda, twin to Angra Mainyu, through whom good creation arises.
Parentage
- parent: Ahura Mazda
Domains
- creation life
- holiness bounty
Powers
- Bring forth life and choose truth over the Lie
- Serve as Ahura Mazda's creative force in fashioning the world
Epithets
- Spəṇta Mainiiu The Bounteous Spirit; the creative will of Ahura Mazda, opposed to Angra Mainyuthe Gāθās (Yasna 30, 45) (primary)
Relations
- sibling: AmeretatFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Ahura Mazda) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: Asha VahishtaFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Ahura Mazda) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: AtarFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Ahura Mazda) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: HaurvatatFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Ahura Mazda) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: Khshathra VairyaFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Ahura Mazda) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: Spenta ArmaitiFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Ahura Mazda) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: Vohu ManahFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Ahura Mazda) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- twin sibling: Angra MainyuReciprocal of zoroastrian_angra_mainyu.twin sibling — The two primal Spirits revealed as twins in the Gathas: the Bounteous and the Destructive, opposed in thought, word and deed.Avesta, Yasna 30.3 (Gathas) (primary)
Sources
- existence: Avesta, Yasna 30 (primary); Avesta, Yasna 47 (primary)