Ormuzd

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 646

Ormuzd (Ahvrô-Mazdaô), the name of the supreme deity of the ancient Persians, and of their descendants the Guebres and Parsees. It was at first emphatically employed in this sense by Zaratustra. See ZOROASTER.

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