This god was thought to be the creator
of all things good.
He was perhaps part of a triad,
made up also of Mithra and Anahita
(goddess of water and fertility).
A number of scholars have linked Anahita
with the Babylonian goddess Ishtar.
E. James comments as follows: “She was worshipped as ‘the Great Goddess whose name is the Lady’, the ‘all-powerful immaculate one’, purifying ‘the seed of males [...] She was, in fact, the Iranian counterpart of the Syrian goddess Anat, the Babylonian goddess Inanna-Ishtar and the Greek goddess Aphrodite.” A241
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