god
Ahriman
also: Angra Mainyu, the destructive spirit
Ahriman (Angra Mainyu) is the destructive spirit and principle of evil in Zoroastrian cosmology, the adversary of Ahura Mazda (Ormuzd); Lorán uses the Zoroastrian dualism as a metaphor for the 'common world' that destroys poetic inspiration.
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- Only a Joke §4 Ahriman
Ahriman is the destructive spirit or principle of evil in Zoroastrian cosmology, the adversary of Ahura Mazda (Ormuzd); here 'the common world' that lays waste to what poetry creates.