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AMERÔDAD-AMESHA-SPENTAS
Amerodad or Amurdad, Phl. = Zd. 4, 23, 23, 163; the Gard-pinaneum
Arneretât, immortality, 5, 10 n.; or paradise of the A., 4, 220 sq.; the archangel, created, 5, 10; pro- presiding over the regions of nature, tector of plants, 5, 30 sq., 176, 310, 4, 245, 245 n. ; Ahura Mazda and 310 n., 359; 31, 207, 207 n., 211, the A., 4, 283 ; 23, 24; 24, 117; 213 sq., 221 sq., 226-8; has the the A. assist Ahura Mazda in smiting kamba flower, 5, 104; attacks Zâî- the demons of Aharinan at the resurrîk, 5, 128; propitiated, invoked, rection, 5, 128 sq.; opposed by the and worshipped, 5, 372 sq., 377 sq., demons, 37, 21, 21 n.; Allharmazd 401, 405; 23, 5, 14, 36 sq. ; 24, 304; perforined the spiritual Yazisn cerecreatures are immortal through A., mony with them, 5, 14: Vayu works 37, 291; prescribes the care of the good of Ahura Mazda and the plants to Zoroaster, 47, 162; mingles A., 23, 259; the makers and goverthe plants with rain, 24, 112 sq. n.; nors and keepers of Ahura Mazda's see Immortality; Horvadad (Haurva- creations, 23, 291; compassion of tát, Khürdad) and A., two archangels, Allharmazd and the A. with their angels of water and plants, 5, 310, own creatures, 24, 101; Ahura gron.; 24, 11, 11n.; their ritual announces Zarathustra's appointand worship, 5, 227; 24, 304; 47, ment to the A., 31, 4 sq., Io sq.; 76, 76 n.; are the reward of the called the Ahuras of Mazda,' 31, holy ones, 23, 31, 31 N.; 37, 388; 34, 34 n., 37, 42; Ahura Mazda will smite hunger and thirst at the resur- give Universal Weal and Immorrection, 23, 308; their gifts, 23, 312 tality, with Vohunanah, Asha, (food and drink); 37, 286 sq. (cattle), Khshathra, and Aramaiti, 31, 147 sq.; 369 (abundance); 47, 26, 261.(water and Saoshyants, 4, 291, 291 n.; and seeds); unreasonable chatter creation of the A., 5, 9 sq.; 24, 32 sq.; causes distress to them, 24, 11, 11n.; the white ermine came into the 37, 207, 207 n.; are injured by assembly of the A., 5, 89; every immoderate drinking, 24, 48; are flower is appropriate to an angel propitiated by grace said before and (Ameshộspend), 5, 103-5; male and after eating, 24, 284 sq. ; the com- female, 5, 215; 31, 214, 288, 319, plete worthiness existing in them, 348; enumerated, 23, 49, 142 sq.; 37, 251; their power produced by stand up, as soon as the moon Allharmazd, 37, 264 ; Zoroaster be- appears, 23, go; assist Tistrya, 23, comes worthy through them, 37, 268; 103; the waters flow and plauts expounded to Frashộstar, 37, 374. grow at the wish of the A., 23, Amesha-Spentas, or Ameshô-spen 193 sq.; Ahura Vanguhi, sister of tas, Zd. = Phl. Ameshộspends (Am- A., 23, 270, 274; Allharmazd sent shaspands), the archangels.
A. to Vistîsp, 23, 339, 37, 24; the (a) A. in mythology.
Drug overcome with the help of the 16) Worship of A. (c) A. as guardians of Zoroastrian religion
A., 31, 37, 42; how the words Asha, and morality.
Vohu-manah, &c., are used in the (a) A. IN MYTHOLOGY.
Gâthas, 31, 162 n.; it would not be A. belong to later Mazdeism, 4, possible to produce the living existIxi; parallels to the six A. in ence without the A., 24, 356; spiritual Philo's system, 4. Ivi sg.; the A blessings bestowed by the A., 31, as archangels and God's attributes, 178, 186 sq.; the body of the sun 5, Ixxii; 31, xviii, xxiv; the made for the creation of the A., 31, seven A., immortal benefactors,' or 262; worshipped by Sraosha, 31,
archangels,' 5, ron.; abstracts, and 298-300, 298 n.; Sraosha among personified, 31,71,77 sq., 176,179 sq., the A., 31, 300, 300 n.; by Sraosha's 180 1.; Indra, Saurva, and Naunghai- might the A. descend upon this thya, opposed to the A., 4, lii sq.; earth, 31, 303; dwell together with Spenta Mainyu and the seven A., the good mind, 31, 348, 352; re4, 139 n. ; 31, 145 sq.; rule over union of the A. on the heights of the seven Karshivares of the earth, Heaven, 31, 382. See also Angels (b).
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