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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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fibre of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardy.”
—Jonathan Raban (b. 1942)