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Daeva
Daeva (
daeuua,
daaua,
daeva) is an
Avestan language term for a particular sort of supernatural entity with disagreeable characteristics. In the
Gathas, the oldest texts of the
Zoroastrian canon, the
daevas are "wrong gods" or "false gods" or "gods that are (to be) rejected". This meaning is – subject to interpretation – perhaps also evident in the
Old Persian "
daiva inscription" of the 5th century BCE. In the
Younger Avesta, the
daevas are noxious creatures that promote chaos and disorder. In later tradition and folklore, the
dews (Zoroastrian
Middle Persian;
New Persian divs) are personifications of every imaginable evil.
Daeva
Daeva (Avestan) Dev (Pahlavi) Div (Persian) In the Avesta, beings of malicious intent popularly regarded as fiends or demons under the sway of Angra Mainyu. It is a generalizing name for the class of spiritual, quasi-spiritual, and ethereal beings recognized in the mystical literatures of other countries as daimones, devas, spirits, etc. They range thus from self-conscious beings of relatively high evolutionary grade through intermediate stages down to what in theosophy are called elementals.
"In the Vendidad the Daevas are called 'evil-doing,' and shown to rush away 'into the depths of the world of hell,' or matter. . . . This is an allegory showing the Devas compelled to incarnate, once that they have separated themselves from their parent essence, or, in other words, after the unit had become a multiple, after differentiation and manifestation" (SD 2:516). In another sense, Blavatsky interprets the daevas as referring to the Atlantean giants (SD 2:772).
In Persian, the divs are wicked, powerful beings who oppose the rule of just kings of Iran.
