Saoshyant

Saoshyant
/sow"shyeuhnt/, n. Zoroastrianism.
the World Savior who will come at the end of time.

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In Zoroastrianism and Parsiism, the final saviour of the world.

He is the foremost of the three saviours who are posthumous sons of Zoroaster. He is expected to appear at the end of the last millennium of the world, miraculously conceived by a virgin who has swum in a lake where Zoroaster's seed is preserved. He will vanquish demonic power and resurrect the bodies of the dead, bestowing eternal perfection on them after all souls have been cleansed.

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