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Jahi is the Avestan language name of Zoroastrianism's demoness of "lasciviousness." As a hypostatic entity, Jahi is variously interpreted as "hussy," "rake," "libertine," "courtesan" and "one who leads a licentious life." Her standard epithet is "the Whore." In Zoroastrian tradition, Jahi appears as Middle Persian Jeh (''Jēh'', ''J̌ēh''), characterized as the consort of Ahriman and the cause of the menstrual cycle. ==In scripture== In the hymn to ''Haoma'', the devotee rejects the temptations of the "polluting whore" who "sits down devouring Haoma's sacrificial offering" (''Yasna'' 10.15). In the hymn to ''Asha'', the Holy Word (''manthra spenta'') is an effective remedy against Jahi and other noxious creatures (''Yasht'' 3.9). In the hymn to Ashi (not to be confused with Asha), "Fortune" wails about how shamed she is by Jahi's improper actions (''Yasht'' 17.57-58). In ''Vendidad'' 18.62, Jahi is characterized as causing Ahura Mazda "the most grief". "Her gaze takes the colors away from a third of ()" (''Vendidad'' 18.64). ''Vendidad'' 21.1 contains an oblique reference to Jahi's cosmological role as the killer of ''Gav-aevo.data'' (MP: ''Gawi ewdad''), the primordial creature from whose seed all animal creation originates. In the ''Sudgar Nask'', an Avestan text that has not survived but the contents of which are summarized in ''Denkard'' 9, fire is sickened by the stench and filth of Jahi and by the irritant "owing to the hussy who, dropping her knee on to the fire-stand, arranged her curls; the falling of damp and moisture from her head, with the hair and filth therefrom" (9.1.10.6). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jahi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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