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Ariman

Ariman 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 Ariman

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

Words near Ariman in the dictionary

  1. ariloid
  2. arils
  3. Arilundhoo
  4. ARIMA
  5. Arimaa
  6. Ariman
  7. Arimasp
  8. Arimaspi
  9. Arimaspian
  10. Arimaspians
  11. Arimasps

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