Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrianism is an Iranian religion and one of the world's oldest organized faiths, based on the teachings of the Iranian-speaking prophet Zoroaster. It has a dualistic cosmology of good and evil within the framework of a monotheisti ...
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Ahura Mazda
Ahura Mazda (; ae, , translit=Ahura Mazdฤ; ), also known as Oromasdes, Ohrmazd, Ahuramazda, Hoormazd, Hormazd, Hormaz and Hurmuz, is the creator deity in Zoroastrianism. He is the first and most frequently invoked spirit in the ''Yasna'' ...
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Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
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Pazend
Pazend () or Pazand ( pal, ๐ญฏ๐ญ ๐ญฐ๐ญญ๐ญฃ; ae, ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ฌฐ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฌฅ๐ฌ๐ฌ) is one of the writing systems used for the Middle Persian language. It was based on the Avestan alphabet, a phonetic alphabet originally used t ...
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Gujarati
Gujarati may refer to:
* something of, from, or related to Gujarat, a state of India
* Gujarati people, the major ethnic group of Gujarat
* Gujarati language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them
* Gujarati languages, the Western Indo-Aryan sub- ...
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The names are often taken during ''Baj'' ( ceremonial prayer) as part of
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Meher Baba
Meher Baba (born Merwan Sheriar Irani; 25 February 1894 โ 31 January 1969) was an Indian spiritual master who said he was the Avatar, or God in human form, of the age. A major spiritual figure of the 20th century, he had a following of ...
Names of God
There are various names of God, many of which enumerate the various qualities of a Supreme Being. The English word '' god'' (and its equivalent in other languages) is used by multiple religions as a noun to refer to different deities, or spec ...
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Names of God in Christianity
The Bible usually uses the name of God in the singular (e.g. Ex. 20:7 or Ps. 8:1), generally using the terms in a very general sense rather than referring to any special designation of God. However, general references to the name of God may branc ...
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Names of God in Judaism
Judaism considers some names of God so Q-D-ล , holy that, once written, they should not be erased: Tetragrammaton, YHWH, Adonai, El (deity), El ("God"), Elohim ("God," a plural noun), El Shaddai, Shaddai ("Almighty"), and #Tzevaot, Tzevaot (" f...
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Names of God in Islam
Names of God in Islam ( ar, ุฃูุณูู ูุงุกู ูฑูููููฐูู ูฑููุญูุณูููููฐ , "''Allah's Beautiful Names''") are names attributed to God in Islam by Muslims. While some names are only in the Quran, and others are only in the hadith, th ...
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Sahasranama
' is a Sanskrit term which means "a thousand names".Sir Monier Monier-Williams, ''sahasranAman'', A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European Languages, Oxford Unive ...