Ahura Mazda

Ahura Mazda, also known as Ormazd and Horomazes, is the principal God and sky deity of Zoroastrianism and the spirit most often invoked in the Yasna; the words Ahura and Mazda mean lord and wisdom. Some historians hold that his worship existed before Zoroaster, who according to Zoroastrian tradition was led into his presence in a vision at the age of 30. His first notable invocation is in the Behistun Inscription of Darius the Great, and until Artaxerxes II he was invoked alone in all extant royal inscriptions, then in a triad with Mithra and Anahita. Images of him from the 5th century BCE were eventually removed under an iconoclastic movement supported by the Sasanian dynasty.