Khordad is a deity in Persian folklore, from Iran. Khordad is the Pahlavi/Persian form of the Avestan divine principle Haurvatat and a calendrical name: it is both an Amesha Spenta associated with the virtue of perfection and the element Water, and the third month of the Solar Hijri (modern Iranian) calendar. It is commemorated in festivals such as Khordadgan (Khordadegan) and Khordad Sal.
Khordad is the Pahlavi/Persian continuation of the Avestan divinity Haurvatat (Haurvatāt), one of the Amesha Spentas in Zoroastrian cosmology. Sources identify Khordad/Haurvatat as an ordered member of the Amesha Spentas and summarize its role theologically: 'Perfection is its virtue and Water is its Creation.' The deity-name was carried into later Persian as the month-name Khordad and into festival nomenclature (Khordadgan/Khordad Sal).
The supplied materials do not provide a standardized physical or iconographic description. One source refers to Khordad as 'the female guardian of water' in describing the dedication of a pre-Islamic feast (Shast-Sheshi as a remnant of Khordadgan), indicating that some local or vernacular formulations personify the principle in feminine language, but no detailed or consistent depiction is recorded in the provided extracts.
In the textual and calendrical sources Khordad's 'powers' are conceptual and custodial rather than empirically narrated miracles: as Haurvatat/Khordad the principle functions as guardian of the element Water and as the embodiment of Perfection or wholeness. The available sources record Khordad chiefly as a divine focus for ritual commemoration and as an ordering principle in cosmology; they do not describe miraculous interventions, possession, or harmful agency attributed to Khordad.
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