The Spirit of Evil is a Zoroastrian deity who is always at odds with Ahura Mazda, the ultimate god.
- Angra Mainyu is another name for Ahriman.
- He is usually accompanied by six archdemons.
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References And Further Reading:
- Stepaniants, Marietta. “The Encounter of Zoroastrianism with Islam.” Philosophy East and West 52, no. 2 (2002): 159–72. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1399963.
- KREYENBROEK, PHILIP G. “On Spenta Mainyu’s Role in the Zoroastrian Cosmogony.” Bulletin of the Asia Institute 7 (1993): 97–103. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24048432.
- Fox, Douglas A. “Darkness and Light: The Zoroastrian View.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 35, no. 2 (1967): 129–37. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1460843.
- A. V. Williams Jackson. “Zoroastrianism and the Resemblances between It and Christianity.” The Biblical World 27, no. 5 (1906): 335–43. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3140852.
- Boyd, James W., and Donald A. Crosby. “Is Zoroastrianism Dualistic or Monotheistic?” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 47, no. 4 (1979): 557–88. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1462275.
- KRONEN, JOHN D., and SANDRA MENSSEN. “The Defensibility of Zoroastrian Dualism.” Religious Studies 46, no. 2 (2010): 185–205. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25676936.
- Silverman, Jason M. “Iranian Details in the Book of Heavenly Luminaries (1 Enoch 72–82).” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 72, no. 2 (2013): 195–208. https://doi.org/10.1086/671461.
- Scott, D. A. “Zoroastrian Traces along the Upper Amu Darya (Oxus).” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, no. 2 (1984): 217–28. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25211708.
- HINTZE, ALMUT. “Monotheism the Zoroastrian Way.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 24, no. 2 (2014): 225–49. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43307294.
- Nichols, Andrew G. “THE IRANIAN CONCEPT AA AND GREEK VIEWS OF THE PERSIANS.” Studi Classici e Orientali 62 (2016): 61–86. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26494975.
