In Popular Culture
- 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.
- A statue of Ahura Mazda is built to contain the Djinn in the film Wishmaster.
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