Ahura Mazda vs Spenta Armaiti

The Wise Lord, uncreated creator of the good world in Zoroastrianism, addressed by Zarathushtra in the Gathas and credited by the Achaemenid kings with their rule; opposed by the Hostile Spirit, Angra Mainyu.

Uncreated in orthodox Zoroastrianism. In the Sasanian-era Zurvanite current, known mainly from Christian and Armenian polemic, Ohrmazd and Ahriman are twin sons of Zurvan, Infinite Time.

Zarathushtra's hymns address Ahura Mazda as the creator who established the earth below and held up the sky, who ordered the paths of sun and stars, and who is the father of the good powers: Truth (*Asha*), Good Mind (*Vohu Manah*), and Devotion (*Armaiti*), whom one hymn calls his daughter. The Gathas are hymns of questioning and devotion rather than narratives; they present a world in which every being must choose between truth and the lie, and in which the Wise Lord will judge by that choice.

One of the Amesha Spentas, the Beneficent Immortals: devotion personified, called Ahura Mazda's daughter in the Gathas, and in later tradition the guardian of the earth, whom Yima asks to stretch wider to hold the growing world.

Called the daughter of Ahura Mazda in the Gathas (Yasna 45.4).

Armaiti, 'right-mindedness' or 'devotion', is one of the qualities of Ahura Mazda that the Gathas address almost as persons. One hymn (Yasna 45.4) calls her his daughter, the doer of good deeds. With Truth (Asha), Good Mind (Vohu Manah), Dominion (Khshathra), Wholeness (Haurvatat), and Immortality (Ameretat), she belongs to the group later called the Amesha Spentas, the 'Beneficent Immortals', each of whom came to be associated with one part of the good creation.