There we are nearest to our own god, Mithras, the mighty sun, and to Auramazda, the pure creative light; for there the light lingers latest and returns earliest." [From Herodotus (I.131 and 132.), and from many other sources, we see clearly that at the time of the Achaemenidae the Persians had neither temples nor images of their gods.

Auramazda and Angramainjus, the principles of good and evil, were invisible existences filling all creation with their countless train of good and evil spirits.

Eternity created fire and water.

From these Ormusd (Auramazda), the good spirit, took his origin.

He was brilliant as the light, pure and good.