Being a guy with so many cultures in my lineage, Norse, Dutch, Anglo Saxion, and Persian. Though the Persian part seem to be the most elusive aspect of my lineage, so I’m sending this post, reaching out to those who have better knowledge on my ancestors’ faith and the gods they revered: Ormazd, Ahriman, and Zurvanism, etc. I’m wishing to have information about the ancient Persian culture, so I can properly write a story that includes the major figures of Zoroastrianism as well as the other figures I find quite interesting: The Watchers and the Nephilim. I’m basically trying to make a story that connects these figures together to form something interesting.
So, to the questions: What was the relationship like between Ormazd, Ahriman, and Zurvan? How would you describe their personalities? Do they have goals/agendas? Tell me about the ones who serves them (Archangels/Archdemons and etc.)? What are the interesting customs of Zoroastrianism and their sects? Anything you can tell me about the Watchers and their Children, the Nephilim?
Feel free to PM me if you feel it’s necessary.
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Bumping this to see if you get some replies. 
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There are many sites online that deal with ancient deitys and religions if you search online you can dig deeper and use this as a start. From what i have been able to put together the Zoroastrianism faith is over 3,000 years old. There is a single creator god (Ahura Mazda) and religions that later rose in a similar vein, including the monotheistic religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Ormuzd (also called Ahura Mazda) is the creative deity, embodiment of good and opponent of Ahriman (evil spirit or perhaps demon).
However, Zoroastrianism is often called dualistic as Ahura Mazda’s twin children “Spentu Mainyu (‘beneficient spirit’) and Angra Mainyu (‘hostile spirit’)”. The hostile spirit is better known by its Middle Persian equivalent: Ahriman. Their different personalities arise “from the choice they made between ‘truth,’ asha, and the ‘lie,’ druj, between good thoughts, good words, and good deeds and evil thoughts, evil words and evil deeds”. The battle between these two define the theology of Zoroastrianism and this dualistic idea of ‘spiritual warfare’ remain with monotheistic religions to this day, especially Christianity.
Zoroaster (the prophet) taught the existence of angels, demons and saviors, ideas that can also be found in Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Zoroastrians use the Avesta as their sacred text. The Avesta contains hymns, rituals and spells against demons.
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Hmm though this info is quite useful, but that doesn’t my questions I listed in the topic. I still appreciate the information nonetheless. Wouldn’t know any Avesta spells and rituals?
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Very intetesting subject. Sorry i really don’t have the knowledge as it seems to be a very specialised. Again you might put your ritual requests into the BALG search engine or even Google it and see what you come up with.
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Already on it! Though so far I only see spells from the Druj, and not the other, but hey I’ll search the hell out of this subject, thanks to you.
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No worries. Best of luck I am confident you will find something that will help with your rituals.
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If you have a reddit account there is a Zoroastrianism subreddit that you could probably ask this there and get more official answers.
I do know that Zoroastrianism hugely influenced Judaism during the Babylonian Exile and there are some who believe that Ahura Mazda and Yahweh are the same entity, with Moses and Zoroaster being two different prophets of the same god. There are an extreme amount of similarities between the two. Both refuse to depict their god in any shape, but while the Jews do build a temple, the Zoroastrians do not. Instead, the Zoroastrians pray towards sources of light as a symbol of Ahura Mazda.
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Man, you all just keep pouring in with these facts. I love this forum! Now if anyone can tell me about the Watchers and their offspring, and/or how I could apply them to my story, then I’ll be business.
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