Angra Mainyu
c. 600 BCE – 2026 CEattested
the Iranian plateau
- Iranian
The destructive spirit, opposed to the good one by choice rather than by nature. Zoroastrian dualism makes evil an active rival with its own creation, an idea that travels a very long way west.
Known for
- evil as a deliberate choice
- a rival creation
- the source of Western dualism
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.