Gayomart

American

[gah-yoh-mahrt] / gɑˈjoʊ mɑrt /

noun

Zoroastrianism.

the first Aryan and the sixth creation of Ahura Mazda.

Gayomart British

/ ɡɑːˈjəʊmɑːt /

noun

Zoroastrianism the first man, whose seed was buried in the earth for 40 years and then produced the first human couple

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The pagan theologians often considered Attis as the primeval man whose death brought about the creation, and so they likened him to the Mazdean Gayomart, see Bousset, Hauptprobleme der Gnosis, 1907, pp.

From The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism by Franz Cumont

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