Exam 1 rels 312 Questions & Answers!

Ahura Mazda (Ohrmazd) - ANSWER"Wise lord," supreme deity of good Amesha Spenta - ANSWER"Holy or beneficient Immortals" Six outstanding attributes, through which Ahura Mazda revealed himself to humankind. Spiritualization of abstract notions. Modes of ethical activity. Angra Mainyu (Ahirman) - ANSWER"the bad spirit," supreme principle of evil, darkness, and destruction Asha - ANSWERthe divinity of truth, right, justice, and divine order Assuras or ahuras - ANSWER"lords," divinities; in Zoroastrian usage vested with good qualities Avesta - ANSWER"the instruction," "authoritative utterance" collection of sacred literature of Zoroastrianism first assembled in writing ca. the 3rd or 4th century C.E; "Injunction," "wisdom," and "Scripture" Chinvat Bridge - ANSWERthe "Bridge of the Separator" spanning the abyss of hell and reaching to paradise Daevas - ANSWERgods, celestial beings associated with the sun, moon, earth, fire and water; in Zoroastrian usage demons given to malice and corruption Dakhmas - ANSWER"towers of silence" enclosures open to the sky within which corpse are left to be picked clean by vultures Dasturs - ANSWERhereditary order of Zoroastrian high priests Druj - ANSWERdivinity of falsehood, the Lie Ervads (mobeds) - ANSWERspecially trained class of fire-tending priests Frashno-keriti - ANSWERthe renovation of life and existence at the end of time Gabars (Farsi) - ANSWER"infidels" the continuing ritual community or Zoroastrians in present day Iran Gathas - ANSWER17 hymns of Zoroaster written in the ancient Gathic dialect said to be the words of Zarathushtra; found in the Yasna; the oldest portion of the Avesta