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AHURA MAZDA
Ahura Mazda was the god of prophetic revelation, and bore both Ahriman and Ormuzd. In Persian Mythology Ahura ("Lord") is the title of gods, and the name for gods and spirits. The name was used to make a clear distinction between the Ahuras and the Daevas, who originally belonged to the same classification of godlike entities. The Daevas were in later religion, i.e. Zoroastrianism, degraded to the lesser beings, demons or devils, they are now.
Later, in Zoroastrianism Ahura Mazda is the one uncreated creator of all. As leader of the Heavenly Host, the Amesha Spentas, he battles Angra Mainyu (Persian Ahriman) and his followers to rid the world of evil, darkness and deceit. His symbol is the winged disk.
Atar, the son Ahura Mazda, battled Azhi Dahaka, the great dragon of the sky, and bound it in chains on a high mountain. The dragon was, however, destined to escape and destroy a third of mankind at the final reckoning, before it was slain.
The Amesha Spentas "Bounteous Immortals" are his divine helpers. Each of them is a representative of one aspect of that Creation. These Amesha Spenta are in turn assisted by a league of lesser principles, the Yazatas, each "Worthy of Worship" and each again a moral or physical aspect of creation.
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