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Ahrimen

Ahrimen is the alternative form of Ahriman.

Meaning of Ahriman

Proper noun

Ahriman

  1. The hypostasis of chaos, destruction, and evil.
    • [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...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...

Questions about Ahrimen

What is Ahrimen the alternative form of?
Ahrimen is the alternative form of Ahriman.

Words near Ahrimen in the dictionary

  1. Ahrendts
  2. Ahrensburgian
  3. Ahriman
  4. Ahrimanian
  5. Ahrimanic
  6. Ahrimen
  7. Ahrold
  8. Ahrons
  9. AHRQ
  10. AHRS
  11. AHRSs

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