Thrita

Avestan Thrita of the Sama house, the third presser of haoma and an early healer (Vendidad 20), father of Keresaspa. Named in the prose of zoroastrian_keresaspa (son of Thrita). To be kept distinct from the kindred figure Thraetaona, with whom the name Thrita is sometimes confused.

Children

• Keresaspa

Domains

• healing medicine
• plants

Powers

• the first healer, who drove back sickness and death
• healing by the knife, by herbs, and by the holy word

Relations

• father of: Keresaspa

Sources

• Avesta, Yasna 9.10 (the third presser of haoma, father of Urvakhshaya and Keresaspa); Vendidad 20.2
• Encyclopaedia Iranica, article Garsasp / Keresaspa (the father Thrita of the Sama family)