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Ahura Mazda

Statue of Ahura Mazda

Ahura Mazda is a divine being from Old Iranian religion. He has also been known as Ahuramazda, Hourmazd and Ohrmazd. Ahura Mazda is described as the highest deity of worship in Zoroastrianism, along with being the first and most frequently invoked deity in the Yasna. [1] In horror fiction, Ahura Mazda has been referenced in the Wishmaster film series. A page from an ancient text describes him as such:

Ahura-Mazda is the deity of light in pre-Islamic Persia. His shadow was said to contain all that was dark. He thus came to symbolize the duality of good and evil. Ahura-Mazda was also known as "Keeper of the Stone of the Secret Fire".

The Stone of the Secret Fire was a red jewel that contained the essence of a powerful Djinn, who had been trapped inside the stone for over seven-hundred years. [2] The stone itself was secreted away inside of a statue of Ahura Mazda. This particular statue was one of the last pre-Islamic works depicting Zoroastrian deities. An American art collector named Raymond Beaumont worked personally with the Iranin government for over ten years in a bid to acquire the statue. Finally, in 1997, he was able to purchase it.

On the day that the statue was delivered, a drunken crane operator named Mickey Torelli spilled his coffee on the crane's controls, causing the chain to slip. The crate containing the statue fell, crushing Beaumont's assistant, Ed Finney. The statue was destroyed. A construction worker named Etchison found the Stone of the Secret Fire and sold it at a pawn shop.

The Djinn inside the gem was eventually set free and began causing chaos throughout the city in an effort to coerce a woman named Alexandra Amberson into making three wishes. After wasting her first two wishes, she made her final wish, which was to make sure that Mickey Torelli had not been drinking on the day of the accident. Doing so, altered the past. Since Torelli was sober, the crane never malfunctioned and the statue was preserved. Beaumont kept the piece as part of his personal antiquities collection in his home for at least two years. [3]

The statue was later put on display at a museum in Los Angeles. In 1999, several art thieves broke into the museum in an effort to steal some paintings. The stone was broken free from the statue, thus loosing the Djinn upon the world. [4]

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