Aka Manah
Aka Manah ( Avestisch : "bad thinking", "bad spirit") or Akaman ( Middle Persian ) is the name of a demon (" Daeva " or Diw ) in Zoroastrianism . It corresponds to the Div Akwān-e Dīw , also Akvan for short , in the Shāhnāme of the poet Firdausi .
Act
He is one of the arch demons and a servant of Ahriman . He is said to seduce people into evil spirits and is said to have even tried, at the behest of Ahriman, in vain to seduce Zarathustra / Zoroaster, the prophet of the good god Ahura Mazda and to tempt him to evil. He is the eternal opponent of Vohu Manah , an immortal saint , but is finally defeated by him at Frashokereti , the end of the known world.
In the Shahname he sneaked up to the sleeping hero Rostam , lifted him up together with the surrounding earth and threw him into the sea. But then Rostam defeats the demon Akvan.
literature
- Outline of Iranian Philology. Vol 2. Literature, History and Culture. , Publisher: de Gruyter; Reprint d. Edition from 1896/1904, 1974, ISBN 3-11-002493-4 , p. 637 online
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Ehlers (ed. And trans.): Abū'l-Qāsem Ferdausi: Rostam - The legends from the Šāhnāme . Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart, 2002, pp. 214–223 ( Der Div Akvān )
- ↑ http://www.rafa.at/11_a.htm
- ↑ Gods and Myths of the Caucasian and Iranian Peoples, p. 254 Online
- ^ Peter Lamborn Wilson , Karl Schlamminger: Weaver of Tales. Persian Picture Rugs / Persian tapestries. Linked myths. Callwey, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-7667-0532-6 , pp. 30–45 ( The Devils / The Demons ), here: p. 38 ( Rostam and the demon Akhvan ).