Ormazd and Ahriman feature in the 2008 video game, Prince of Persia. Ormazd and Ahriman feature heavily in the Philip K. Dick novel The Cosmic Puppets. In the 2001 video game Severance: Blade of Darkness, Ahura Mazda was the god who created the entire world in which the game takes place. One of the inspirations for the name of the Mazda Motor Corporation is Ahura Mazda, with homophone similarity to founder Jujiro Matsuda. A statue of Ahura Mazda is built to contain the Djinn in the film Wishmaster. In the 2013 Amish Tripathi novel The Oath of the Vayuputras, Ahura Mazda is shown as the God of Pariha. Ahura Mazda is referred in the Immortal Technique song Sign of the Times from the Martyr disc. In the novel Battle Royale, a student named Mizuho Inada believes she is a warrior for the god Ahura Mazda. Ahura Mazda appears as a character in the Lucifers Halo miniseries of Joseph Michael Linsners comic Dawn. Ahora Mazda was the name of a late 60s, early 70s psychedelic and fusion prog-rock band from the Netherlands. Ahura Mazda is featured in the book Kushiels Avatar, the third novel in Jacqueline Careys Kushiels Legacy series.
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