11-30-2012, 06:26 PM
(11-30-2012, 06:21 PM)Pickle Wrote: Very funny how it works out. Most of the religious on VC that point out everything as being demonic happen to have their perceptions filtered by negative entities. So in reality the only demons are right at their side.
Under the Zoroastrian system, the ahuras were the good spirits, while the daevas were the evil spirits. Ahuras were often depicted somewhat grotesquely while the daevas were beautiful according to human standards.
As Zoroastrianism made its way through the Indian subcontinent, it of course because subsumed by Hinduism- but with one important change. The spirits flip-flopped, and the daevas became the "good spirits."
This inversion persisted into the Abrahamic faiths whereby the daevas became the "angels" and the ahuras the "demons" of these faiths.
As a side note, I think it is interesting how Americans have picked up on this word as "deva" and use it to refer to highly materialistic people.