High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Daeva (daeuua, daaua, daeva) in Avestan language meaning "a being of shining light", is a term for a particular sort of supernatural entity with disagreeable characteristics. Equivalents in Iranian languages include Pashto dew (Uber ghost, demon, giant), Baluchi dew (giant, monster), Persian div (a demon, an ogre, a giant), Kurdish dew (giant, monster). The Iranian word is borrowed into Urdu as deo and Georgian as devi. In the Gathas, the oldest texts of the Zoroastrian canon, the daevas are "wrong gods" or "false gods" or "gods that are (to be) rejected". This meaning is—subject to interpretation—perhaps also evident in the Old Persian 'daiva inscription' of the 5th century BCE. In the Younger Avesta, the daevas are noxious creatures that promote chaos and disorder. In later tradition and folklore, the dews (Zoroastrian Middle Persian; New Persian divs) are personifications of every imaginable evil. Данное издание представляет собой...

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