Ahriman

• Ariman, Ahirman, Ahrimen, Ahrimanes

From Persian اهریمن‎ (Ahriman), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭧𐭫𐭬𐭭𐭩‎ (Ahreman), from Avestan 𐬀𐬢𐬭𐬀⸱𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬥𐬌𐬌𐬎‎ (aŋra mainiiu), compound of 𐬀𐬢𐬭𐬀‎ (aŋra, “destruction, destructive”) and 𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬥𐬌𐬌𐬎‎ (mainiiu, “spirit, mind, essence, emanation etc.”). Definable through the antithetical 𐬀𐬨𐬆𐬱𐬀⸱𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬥𐬌𐬌𐬎‎ (aməša mainiiu, “bounteous spirit”). Doublet of Angra Mainyu

Ahriman

1. The hypostasis of chaos, destruction, evil in Zoroastrianism.
   • 1879, Viktor Rydberg, “The Magic of the People and the Struggle of the Church against It”, in August Hjalmar Edgren, transl., The Magic of the Middle Ages: Translated from the Swedish, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, OCLC 3814209, page 201:

     [A]midst Ahriman and his hosts who had now established themselves in the Occident, and as heirs to the horns and tails of Pans and fauns, a crowd of native spirits moved; imps, giants, trolls, forest-spirits, elves and hobgoblins in and on the earth; nicks, river-sprites in the water, fiends in the air, and salamanders in the fire.

• Ahrimanic

• Angra Mainyu

• Rahmani, Rainham, manhair