Ahura Mazda

Ahura Mazdā (also known as Ohrmazd, Ahuramazda, Hormazd, Aramazd and Azzandara) is the Avestan name for what Zoroastrians believe is the Supreme, the creator of all good and all good things including people.

Ahura Mazda Media

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  Irnp105-Grobowce Naqsh-E Rustam (cropped)

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  Drawing of the "leontocephaline figure" of Ahriman, Ahura Mazda's opposing deity found at the mithraeum of C. Valerius Heracles and sons, dedicated 190 CE at Ostia Antica, Italy (CIMRM 312)

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  The Behistun Inscription contains many references to Ahura Mazda

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  Stater of Tiribazos, Satrap of Lydia, c. 380 BC showing Ahura Mazda

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  Ahura Mazda (on the right, with high crown) presents Ardashir I (left) with the ring of kingship. (Naqsh-e Rostam, 3rd century AD)

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  Investiture scene: Anahita on the left as the patron yazata of the Sasanian dynasty behind Emperor Khosrow II, with Ahura Mazda presenting the khvarenah of sovereignty on the right. Taq-e Bostan, Iran

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  Kushan coinage of Huvishka with Ahuramazda on the reverse (Greek legend ωΡΟΜ, Orom[zdo]). 150–180 AD