Vayu
Zoroastrian · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Yazata personifying the wind and the intermediate atmosphere; an ambivalent power with both beneficent and harmful aspects.
Domains
- wind atmosphere
- fate intermediate space
Powers
- Rule the wind and the void between Ahura Mazda's and Ahriman's realms
- Drive forward and grant passage to heroes who sacrifice
Epithets
- uparō.kairiia Who works on high; Vayu the wind, moving between the realms of Ohrmazd and AhrimanRām Yašt (Yašt 15) (primary)
Relations
- equated with: Oado
- equated with: Weshparkar
Sources
- existence: Avesta, Yasht 15 (Ram Yasht) (primary)