Az

“Az is the demon who is never satisfied — who has swallowed all the world and yet cries out for more.”

Lore: Az (sometimes “Azi”) is the daeva of greed, concupiscence, and insatiable desire. She is the force behind gluttony, lust, avarice, and every form of wanting that consumes rather than fulfills. In some texts, Az is so powerful that she threatens even Angra Mainyu himself — desire without limit is self-destructive even for evil. She represents the principle that sin is not merely disobedience but an appetite — a hunger that grows the more it feeds.

Parallel: → The Seven Deadly Sins concept. The categorization of sins as specific vices (greed, lust, gluttony, etc.) each governed by a specific demon owes much to Zoroastrian demonology. Peter Binsfeld’s 1589 classification of demons by deadly sin (Mammon = greed, Asmodeus = lust, Beelzebub = gluttony) is the late-stage descendant of a system that began with daevas like Az.