assigning guardianship to another Amesha Spenta Haurvatat (middle Persian: (K)hordad).

In tradition

According to the Bundahishn ('Original Creation', an 11th- or 12th-century text), aban was the second of the seven creations of the material universe, the lower half of everything.

In a development of a cosmogonical view already alluded to in the Vendidad (21.15), aban is the essence of a "great gathering place of the waters" (Avestan: Vourukasha, middle

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