aryhman

Updated: June 1, 2025

This Persian devil, which had become identified with winter or with the absence of the sun's rays, was now Aryhman, or the "powers of darkness," and was doubtless the source whence sprang the personal devil elaborated at a later age by Laotse in China.

Eliza Burt Gamble - The God-Idea of the Ancients : or Sex in Religion