Also known as Khúr, Khurshíd, Khur
Hvare-khshaeta (', ') is the Avestan language name of the Zoroastrian yazata (divinity) of the "Radiant Sun".
Hvare-khshaeta (', ') is the Avestan language name of the Zoroastrian yazata (divinity) of the "Radiant Sun".
Avestan Hvarə-xšaēta is a compound in which hvar "sun" has xšaēta "radiant" as a stock epithet. Avestan hvar derives from Proto-Indo-Iranian *súHar "sun", from which the Vedic Sanskrit theonym Surya also derives. In Middle Persian, Hvare-khshaeta was contracted to Khwarshēd, continuing in New Persian as Khurshēd/Khorshīd (cf. a similar contraction of Avestan Yima-khshaeta as Jamshid). thumb|Lion and sun, a typical Iranian solar symbol. The short seven-verse 6th Yasht is dedicated to Hvare-khshaeta, as is also the Avesta's litany to the Sun. The 11th day of the Zoroastrian calendar is dedicated to and is under the protection of Hvare-khshaeta. Although in tradition Hvare-khshaeta would eventually be eclipsed by Mitra as the divinity of the Sun (this is attributed to "late" syncretic influences, perhaps to a conflation with Akkadian Shamash), in scripture the Sun is still unambiguously the domain of Hvare-khshaeta and remains distinct from the divinity of "Covenant".
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).