AtDDtA1: Demonic North (was The Southerly Wind)

[Ya Sam]

Also check this invocation of evil coming from the North:

"Very different is the lot of the wicked. His soul lingers about the body
in great perturbation for three days, murmuring the words of the Gatha, "To
what land shall I turn, O Ahura Mazda, whither direct my prayer?" and
suffering all of distress that the world holds. The fourth morning, a cold
blast, as out of the demonic north, smites him, laden with foul stench. A
demon lassoes the soul with his evil noose and drags him to the bridge, 
where
Rashnu with his balances detects all his wickedness. His evil ways confront
him embodied in a hideous witch, whose ugliness is the expression of his
character. Hell has its vestibules, evil thoughts, evil words, evil deeds,
through which the damned sinner arrives in the "infinite darkness," where 
the
wicked dead surround him, the demons mock him, and Angra Mainyu bids bring 
him
loathsome and poisonous food. "And until the resurrection he must be in hell
in much misery and torments of many kinds."

http://history-world.org/religions_of_iran.htm

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