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title: The End of Time
description: The end of time in the Persian tradition.
author:
  name: Graciela Paula Caldeiro
  url: http://graciela-caldeiro.idoneos.com
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source: en/296321/index.md
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<h2 id="el-fin-de-los-tiempos">The End of Time</h2>

As the end of time draws near, Saoshyant, the saviour, will arise. He will prepare the world for its renewal and will help Ahura Mazda destroy Ahriman.

In the time of Saoshyant people will be pure: first they will cease to eat meat, then milk, plants, water, and finally they will no longer have any need to eat anything at all. Then there will be no more sin&#46;&#46;&#46; but Az, the demoness of desire created by Ahriman, will feel an infinite hunger. She will turn upon her creator and attempt to devour him&#46;&#46;&#46; whereupon Ahriman will implore Ahura Mazda for his salvation, but Ahura Mazda will cast him out of Creation through the very hole he made to enter it.

Then time will come to its end, and the world will begin anew.

Saoshyant will resurrect the dead and Ahura Mazda will reunite the bodies with the souls. The first to be reborn will be Gayomart, the first priest of fire, then Mashya and Mashyoi, the mother and father of humanity.

All the metal in the mountains of the world will melt and all men and women will pass through the river of molten metal and emerge purified by it. For the righteous, the river will be like bathing in warm milk; for the damned, it will be a slow agony and they will burn in their own sins.

The new world will be immortal, eternal, and free from evil.