Order

nature_spirit Zoroastrian single tradition · 2

Order is personified as an empty cardboard box carried by a djinn-like being. Order offers to trade the dreams of the newly dead.

↻ synthesized from 2 sources

When

First attested
600 BCE
Attested period
-100 – 1996
Historical notes
Mentioned by Plutarch in the 1st-2nd century CE, referencing Zoroaster.

Relationships

enemy of
Chaos
child of
Oromazes

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Sources

Source passages

“Order is personified as an empty cardboard box carried by a djinn-like being, while Chaos appears as a small girl in clown makeup; whereof Order offers to trade the dreams of the newly dead, while Chaos simply threatens Morpheus and gives him a toy balloon.”

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“Oromazes created six gods, the first of Good Thought, the second of Truth, the third of Order, and, of the rest, one of Wisdom, one of Wealth, and one the Artificer of Pleasure in what is Honourable. But Areimanius created rivals, as it were, equal to these in number.”

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