entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note
ENT_ZOR_AHURA_MAZDA,SRC_AVESTA,direct attestation,Named in the Avesta.
ENT_ZOR_AHURA_MAZDA,SRC_BOYCE_ZOROASTRIANS,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Mary Boyce, Zoroastrians."
ENT_ZOR_AHURA_MAZDA,SRC_BUNDAHISHN,direct attestation,Bundahishn 1-3: Ahura Mazda's original creation of the world as pure light and spiritual being (Menok); his fashioning of the six Amesha Spentas; his foreknowledge of Angra Mainyu's attack; the Bundahishn is the primary narrative account of Ahura Mazda's creative activity
ENT_ZOR_AHURA_MAZDA,SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES,direct attestation,"Histories 1.131: ""The Persians have no images of the gods, no temples nor altars, and consider their use a sign of folly... Their wont is to ascend the summits of the loftiest mountains, and there to offer sacrifice to Jove [= Ahura Mazda], which is the name they give to the whole circuit of the firmament""; the earliest surviving Greek account of the Persian deity identified as the sky"
ENT_ZOR_AHURA_MAZDA,SRC_MENOG_I_KHRAD,primary text attestation,discussed in the Pahlavi wisdom text Menog-i Khrad