Search results for "Yazatas" - New World Encyclopedia

often transformed into the names of Zoroastrian yazatas. Thus Abbā dəRabbūṯā ("The Father of Greatness"--the highest Manichaean ...

rise of the Sassanid dynasty, the shrines to the Yazatas continued to exist, with the statues--by law--either being abandoned as empty sanctuaries, or ...

deities from the Indo-Aryan pantheon, which became yazatas ("ones worthy of worship"). These later deities include Arevadi Sure Anahita (a ...