Every myth carries a truth older than the civilization that told it.
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Discover Prende, the Albanian goddess of love, beauty and the dawn — radiant patroness of women and consort of the thunder-god, associated with the
Discover Zojz, the sky-father and supreme god of ancient Albanian myth — deity of the bright heaven, thunder and lightning, the Albanian cognate of Zeus
Discover Pazuzu, the demon-king of the wind in Assyrian and Babylonian belief — a fearsome monster of the destroying wind who was yet invoked as a
Discover the Lamassu, the great protective guardian-spirit of Assyria and Mesopotamia — a majestic human-headed winged bull who guarded the gates of
Discover Ashur (Assur), the national god and supreme deity of the Assyrian Empire — the deified state and lord of war who rose with Assyria to become king
Jahi (Jeh), the arch-demoness of Zoroastrianism — the female fiend of debauchery and defilement, the “Primal Whore” who roused the despairing Angra Mainyu
Druj (Drug, the Lie), the great principle and demoness of falsehood, deceit, and disorder in Zoroastrianism — the cosmic Lie opposed to asha (truth), the
Az (Āz), the demon of greed, lust, and avarice in Zoroastrianism — the insatiable fiend of concupiscence and gluttony who devours and is never satisfied,
Aeshma (Eshm), one of the chief demons of Zoroastrianism — the bloody-clubbed fiend of wrath, rage, and violence who incites discord and assails the good
Rashnu (Rashn), the yazata of justice and judgment in Zoroastrianism — the divine judge who, with Mithra and Sraosha, weighs the souls of the dead at the
