Taurvi
Zoroastrian · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Wholeness and immortality — Haurvatat and Ameretat — are the pair of Amesha Spentas that the Avesta never separates, and the two daevas set against them are named as a pair in the same way. The corpus held both halves of the good pair and neither half of the bad one.
Domains
- destruction
Relations
- opposes: HaurvatatNon-symmetric.Reference treatment: Tawrich of destruction opposes Hordad of 'wholeness'. (secondary)
- counterpart of: ZairichReciprocated in-batch. The two are named as a pair in the lists exactly as Haurvatat and Ameretat are, which is why they are recorded as a pair here.Reference treatment listing Tauru and Zairi together among the daevas opposing the Amesha Spentas. (secondary)
Sources
- Taurvi is the arch-daeva of destruction, set against the Amesha Spenta Haurvatat of wholeness, and named in the lists alongside Zairich.: Reference treatments of the daevas in Zoroastrian scripture. (secondary)