Saoshyant

noun

Sao·​shyant

ˈsau̇shyənt

plural -s

: one of three deliverers of later Zoroastrian eschatology appearing at thousand year intervals and each inaugurating a new order of things and a special period of human progress

Word History

Etymology

Avestan, savior

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