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Zoroastrianism

In Our Time: Religion

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Ahura Masda - The New God, the Sola Hura

Farok bajfa: In zarathustra's mouth a. He displaced all the old gods. But he kept two at least behind. One was mitra and the other was varuna. Varuna was the creator god, the king of the gods. Mitra had a twofold function. He was e the enforcer of the solemnly given word, the contract,. Also the god, therefore of friendship. And that basically is the being, the essence of masda.

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