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Bushyasta

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Towards dawn, before the demons are forced back into the darkness, Bushyasta rushes from the north murmuring "Sleep on, O men! Sleep on, O sinners! Sleep on and live in sin" (
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s who are specifically mentioned in the texts, she is not among the fiends who are described in any great detail.
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37.44, Bushasp is one of the few explicitly named entities amongst the "hordes" of demons created by Ahriman (
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Although there are "as many demons as the sins that man commits" and Bushyasta is among the few
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41–42). Bushyasta is named among the demons who flee at the sight of
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Besides Bushyasta's stock epithet as "the long-handed," (e.g.
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In scripture as well as in later tradition, Bushyasta (
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Zoroastrianism

Ahura Mazda
Zarathustra
Asha
Vohu Manah
Persia/Iran
Faravahar
Avestan
Amesha Spentas
Yazatas
Ahuras
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Fravashi
Angra Mainyu
Zoroastrian literature
Avesta
Ashem Vohu
Ahuna Vairya
Yenghe hatam
Airyaman ishya
Fire Temples
101 Names of Ahura Mazda
Adur Burzen-Mihr
Adur Farnbag
Adur Gushnasp
Cypress of Kashmar
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