Amesha Spenta

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Amesha Spenta

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From Avestan 𐬀𐬨𐬆𐬱𐬀 𐬯𐬞𐬆𐬧𐬙𐬀 (aməša spəṇta, “Bounteous Immortal”).

noun Amesha Spenta · Amesha Spentas

Any of the six immortal beings created by Ahura Mazda plus Ahura Mazda himself, often equated to archangels, virtues, and elements of nature. Thus whereas Bousset, for instance, regarded the Amesha Spentas of the Zoroastrian religion as a textbook example of the process by which concrete divine beings could be evaporated into abstract figures,² it is now recognized that the development ran, in fact, in the opposite direction, that is, fro
Similar: Ahura Mazda, Ameretat, Asha Vahishta, Haurvatat, Khshathra Vairya, Spenta Armaiti, Vohu Manah

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noun immortal being

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@misc{amesha_spenta_2026,
  title = {Amesha Spenta},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/amesha%20spenta},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}