Prosopa

A Prosopon is a particular way of the soul, a kind of personality, a spirit-character. There are lots of Prosopa - lots of ways of being - that each tend to produce a different impact on the world.

Each of the Prosopa has a particular character, each has a different spirit at work in them. Thus each has tasks that they are better suited to perform than the others.

The Prosopa Yazata are seven prosopa considered especially worthy of being payed attention to.

The Prosopa Yazata can also be referred to as Archangels.

Prosopa Yazata

A Prosopon is a 'personality-spirit' and Yazata means 'worthy of worship'. They are partial aspects of the comprehensive creative and right-ordering being that is Auramazda the Wise Lord. Unlike Auramazda the prosopa are imagined in human form for easier comprehension and because their spirits can be seen in the human personality.

Prosopa Yazata

The prosopa are a class of divine beings of which seven have pride of place. These are Mithras, Anhita, Sarus, Perkun, Venus, Tekton and Vatis.

Each of the prosopa has a particular character, each has a different spirit at work in them. Thus each has tasks that they are better suited to perform than the others.

Mithras has a mature rounded character. He has an inclination to look at things as a whole and with dispassion. He is motivated by a desire to see good order in human affairs and he has all the ability needed to influence others to come into line. He is thus considered the rightful leader of the yazata.

Anhita is fulfilled as a mother and carer. She has a love of life and a desire to nurture others, especially the young and vulnerable and to help sustain them and see them grow and flourish, protected from the wider uncaring world.

Sarus is a listener. He has a sensitive soul and a deep interest in individuals. He understand people and has respect for their innate dignity. He tries to help everybody and especially those in greatest need. He is the first to warn of danger and is a teacher of religion.

Perkun has an impetuous character and is easily raised to anger. He has great strength and will strike out against that which is creating barriers to the good life.

Venus is motivated by fiery love.

Tekton is a craftsman. He enjoys manipulating inanimate materials and crafting them into new designs. He likes to be in control and has little interest in relating to people as equals. However where the opportunity arises he will become a demiurge, treating others as biological machines that respond in a predictable way to the input they are given, and which can be manipulated to desired ends.

Vatis has high energy and a desire for novelty and excitement. Vatis tends to break out of conventional patterns of thought and behaviour and creates his own new patterns. Vatis is able to see the world more clearly than others who are trapped by mental walls put up by others. Vatis is thus a major source of new knowledge. Vatis is also useful in warfare where existing structures need to be demolished.


Prosopa Yazata

Seven Worthy Personality Spirits

Mithras is the yazad of social order. He is the power that connects people to each other in the right way and produces the good social order. Mithras is regarded as the righteous leader of the asa yazata. He is like the crown prince of the Yazata family.

Anhita is the mother goddess of life. She represents the processes that give birth to life and nurture and protect it. She is embued with maternal love and desires that the life gestated in her should be safe and flourish. She provides the matrix or womb within which young life develops. We see her acting as a human mother, as the wider family and society that looks after its dependent members, and as 'Mother Nature'.

Sarus is the yazad of listening and warning and the teaching of morality.

Perkun is the yazad of disruptive force. He strikes the world, creating change, upsetting existing patterns and breaking through barriers. He can act for good, being an agent of challenge that stimulates life to grow, and dissolving structures that restrict or do harm.

Venus is the yazad of love and desire. Like Percus she has a wild heart and represents the basic desires and drives that animate life.

Tekton is the yazad of manufacture. He is the maker-god. He is the craftsman who crafts the material of the world into new designs.

Vatis is a yazad of heightened energy who can rise above existing patterns and create new ones. He has especial sensitivity and ability to see the underlying workings of things. He is the seer , the priest and healer. He is also a frenzied fighter who can break through obstacles and restrictions set by others.

Prosopa Yazata

Mithras

Mithras is the righteous leader and guarantor of social order.

Mithras has a mature rounded character. He has an inclination to look at things as a whole and with dispassion. He is motivated by a desire to see good order in human affairs and he has all the ability needed to influence others to come into line.

Mithras is the divine personality that desires good order. He is the power that connects people to each other in the right way and produces the good social order.

Mithras takes a holistic view of the world and human society and seeks to bring it into good order. Mithras is regarded as the righteous leader, crown prince or king.

Mithras is like a prince who considers the whole picture and seeks to create the good order that underlies the flourishing of life.

Mithras the Righteous Leader. Mithras has a strong desire for righteous order. He is a leader of society and a governor of the relationships between people. He is trusted to seek the common good of all and to see justice done. He upholds the social bonds that create the productive community and encourages the mutual flourishing.

Mithras is a champion of social order. He is concerned for the whole picture. He is concerned for the good relations between people and that their mutual interaction should produce a happy result.


Anhita

Anhita is the divine mother who provides growing life with nutrition and shelter adapted to their needs.

Anhita is fulfilled as a mother, she has a love of life and a desire to nurture others, especially the young and vulnerable and to help sustain them and see them grow and flourish, protected from the wider uncaring world.

Anhita is the divine mother personality. She produces the processes that give birth to life and nurture and protect it. We see her acting as 'Mother Nature' and also acting through the human parent.

Anhita has a love of life and seeks to provide conditions for the best growing, protecting and healing of others. She is sometimes called Anhita the Pure as everything that comes from her is perfectly pure and good.

Anhita is like the mother who gives her pure love in care for her children.

Anhita the Mother. Anhita provides what is needed for the incipient and developing life to grow happily into a productive being who can shoulder the tasks of an adult existence. Anhita cares about her nurselings and cares for them. She provides a womb or shelter adapted to the needs of the dependent individual and protected from the harshness of the uncaring world outside. Anhita is known especially as a nurturer and protector and as a guardian of the purity of the conditions in which life grows.

Anhita is motivated by love of life and seeks to nurture, protect and heal.

Sarus

Sarus (or sometimes Saros) is the listener who is sensitive to the souls of all creatures and thus provides guidance as to the best moral path of action.

Sarus has a sensitive soul and a deep interest in individuals. He understand people and has respect for their innate dignity. He tries to help everybody and especially those in greatest need.

Sarus is the divine Listener. He listens to the nature and needs of individual beings and responds accordingly. He is also called the Obedient, because he obeys the requirements of the situation as he hears it and not any separate personal will.

Sarus is the divine personality that desires to be of service to individual people. He is concerned to uphold the dignity of all, and is willing to sacrifice himself so that others can escape the full consequences of their actions. Sarus pays attention to individuals one at a time and seeks to save them from their sins.

Sarus is a teacher to us. Because of his empathy and knowledge of all beings and desire to help them he is a worthy teacher of morality.

Sarus is like a monk who serves the individuals he comes across.

Sarus the Listener. Sarus is a sensitive character and easily sees himself in the place of others. He feels the experience of each individual soul and desires that the best thing happens to them for their development and happiness.


Perkun

Perkun is a personality of self-assertion. He gets angry when he is not treated with respect and will strike out at those who are abusing him. Perkun identifies with the life of the world and is a force to protect living processes from negative interference.

Perkun is a personality of self-respect and defence. He cares about the well-being of his own and gets angry when it is disrespected or interfered with. His epithet 'the striker' indicates his anger at those who try to damage his own will bring retaliation onto his opponent.

Perkun is the prosopon of disruptive force. He strikes the world, creating change, upsetting existing patterns and breaking through barriers. He can act for good, being an agent of challenge that stimulates life to grow, and dissolving structures that restrict or do harm.


Venus

Venus is the personality of love and desire. Like Perkun she has a wild heart and represents the basic desires and drives that animate life.

Tekton

Tekton is the personality of manufacture. He is the maker-personality. He is the craftsman who crafts the material of the world into new designs.


Vatis

Vatis is a personality of heightened energy who can rise above existing patterns and create new ones. He has especial sensitivity and ability to see the underlying workings of things. He is the seer , the priest and healer. He is the bringer of music and dance.

Vatis can use his power to break through obstacles or structures that restrict the best flourishing of life.

Vatis is the eccentric and energetic one who thinks new thoughts and creates new structures.

Vatis the Overcomer. Vatis has a high-energy personality. He is good at overcomings the mental channels of habitual thinking and creating new thought patterns. Fixed structures that regulate the flowing of life become liquid under his attention and he can shape new structures better suited to the needs of the world's souls.

Vatis is a personality of disruptive force. He pushes at the world, creating change, upsetting existing patterns and breaking through barriers. He can act for good, being an agent of challenge that stimulates life to grow, and dissolving structures that restrict or do harm. He can also act for bad, undermining good patterns and bringing death.


We believe that all the Prosopa are needed to work together as joint saviours. They all work to the same ends but they have a different approach. Each tugs at the other to keep their joint work on the straight path. Sarus insists that the task of maintaining social order doesn't become an end in itself in disregard of its actual impact on individual human lives. Mithras insists that the common good is attended to and not overturned by the needs of a few privileged individuals. Anhita especially attends to the needs of the growing young. Vatis is critical to achieving new ways of doing things but needs to be kept in check by Sarus and the other Prosopa to keep him on the righteous path.

Semidii

Prosopa Yazata can also be called semidii....

Semidii are divine personalities or partial manifestations of the Pleroma - the fullness or powers - of Auramazda. Semidii are ideal forms of personality - including human personality. Semidii are spirit-beings - beings defined by the nature of their spirit or personality.

Semidii are a kind of demigod because of their intermediate position between that which is fully divine and that which is human. However Semidii are distinct from the Divi who are particular human beings who have been raised to a semi-divine status.

NB Prosopa Yazata have also previously been called Asa Yazata, where Ason is a general term for a spirit-being.
Updated August 4024 EHE