Amesha Spenta

Noun

Amesha Spenta (plural Amesha Spenta or Amesha Spentas)

1. Any of the six immortal beings created by Ahura Mazda plus Ahura Mazda himself, often equated to archangels, virtues, and elements of nature.
   • Thus whereas Bousset, for instance, regarded the Amesha Spentas of the Zoroastrian religion as a textbook example of the process by which concrete divine beings could be evaporated into abstract figures,² it is now recognized that the development ran, in fact, in the opposite direction, that is...1967, Walter Eichrodt, Theology of the Old Testament, page 195
   • Each Amesha Spenta retains his or her⁵ individual nature and life which was given at their creation.[…]and it is an act he also accomplishes through the guardianship and identification that the Amesha Spentas have for and with the world.1998, Peter Clark, Zoroastrianism: An Introduction to Ancient Faith, page 30

   Synonyms:

   Ahura Mazda, Ameretat, Asha Vahishta, Haurvatat, Khshathra Vairya, Spenta Armaiti, Vohu Manah