Daeva (daēuua, daāua, daēva) is the
Avestan language term for a particular sort of supernatural entity with disagreeable characteristics.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 dēws (Zoroastrian
Middle Persian;
New Persian divs) are personifications of every imaginable evil.
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