Gayomart

[ gah-yoh-mahrt ]

noun

, Zoroastrianism.

1. the first Aryan and the sixth creation of Ahura Mazda.

Gayomart

/ ɡɑːˈjəʊmɑːt /

noun

1. Zoroastrianism the first man, whose seed was buried in the earth for 40 years and then produced the first human couple

Example Sentences

The pagan theologians often considered Attis as the primeval man whose death brought about the creation, and so they likened him to the Mazdean Gayomart, see Bousset, Hauptprobleme der Gnosis, 1907, pp.

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