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PERSIAN DEITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A deity worshiped by the ancient Persians
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Persian deity" is a kind of...):
deity; divinity; god; immortal (any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force)
Domain category:
antiquity (the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe)
Instance hyponyms:
Mithra; Mithras (ancient Persian god of light and truth; sun god)
Ahura Mazda; Ormazd; Ormuzd (chief deity of Zoroastrianism; source of light and embodiment of good)
Ahriman (the spirit of evil in Zoroastrianism; arch rival of Ormazd)
Zurvan (the Zoroastrian god of time)
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