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Zoroastrian

Ameretat

Immortality

Zoroastrian Immortality, Plants, Resurrection, Eternal Life Co-eternal with Ahura Mazda; her full realization at the Frashokereti when death is permanently abolished Universal — governs all plant life; especially associated with the fertile agricultural regions of ancient Iran
Portrait of Ameretat
Portrait of Ameretat
Rank Amesha Spenta (Holy Immortal)
Domain Immortality, Plants, Resurrection, Eternal Life
Period Co-eternal with Ahura Mazda; her full realization at the Frashokereti when death is permanently abolished
Alignment Zoroastrian
Power LEGENDARY 84

Attributes

ATK
40
DEF
95
SPR
96
SPD
70
INT
88
CHA
89
WIS
94
END
99

Combat Profile

ATK DEF SPR SPD INT CHA WIS END
Special Move

Eternal Bloom

grants immortality and resurrection to the worthy, mending mortality itself through divine flora

Passive

Infinite Renewal

all life around Ameretat regenerates perpetually, plants flourish eternally, and death cannot claim the protected

Weakness

Zarich (Aging/Decay)

“In the end, death itself shall be defeated, and all shall share in Ameretat — deathless life.”

Lore: Ameretat (“Immortality” or “Deathlessness”) is the Amesha Spenta of eternal life and the resurrection of the body. She governs plants — the living things that die and are reborn — and embodies the promise that death is temporary. In Zoroastrian eschatology, Ameretat’s triumph comes at the Frashokereti, when all the dead are raised, evil is annihilated, and every soul enters eternal life in a perfected physical body.

Parallel: → The Resurrection of the Dead. Before the exile, Judaism had no clear doctrine of resurrection. The dead went to Sheol — a shadowy, neutral underworld for everyone. After the exile, the resurrection appears (Daniel 12:2: “Many who sleep in the dust shall awake”). This is a Zoroastrian doctrine adopted into Judaism. The entire Christian hope of bodily resurrection — the empty tomb, the risen Christ, the general resurrection at the end of time — rests on a theological foundation that Ameretat built.

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Nemesis / Counter

Death, mortality, despair

Primary Source

Gathas (Yasna 34:1, 51:7); Bundahishn; Zamyad Yasht

Co-eternal with Ahura Mazda; her full realization at the Frashokereti when death is permanently abolished — See in timeline
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