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Airyaman

Mary Boyce

Discusses Airyaman guiding Saosyant and purifying molten metal, while recording dispute over whether early prayer invokes a deity or community.

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Encyclopaedia Iranica online edition

VolIpp694–695; eschatological role and competing etymology

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