Ameretat
𐬀𐬨𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬙𐬁𐬙, the Undying
NG(L) Intermediate power (yazata) and amesha spenta of immortality, plant growth, and spiritual reward; [She/Her]
Realm: Bytopia / Dothion / the Ever-Green Garden
Ameretat [ah-meh-reh-TAHT] is the power of the green-fingered, the holy and the long-lived. She appears as a tall, slender woman crowned in living green. Her robes are woven from leaves that never wither, and her jewellery are white blossoms that never fall. Her skin has the gold-green glow of sunlight filtering through orchard leaves. In her presence, cut branches root, dry seeds swell, and the petrichor scent of rain on soil rises from nowhere. She’s not just the goddess of long life on the Prime, but also perpetual life in the hereafter.
Ameretat is patient, nurturing, and almost impossible to provoke, but she is not soft in the sentimental sense. She embodies the stubborn refusal of life to yield, that green shoot pushing through cracked stone, the orchard returning after a fire, the promise that what is righteous can never be lost forever. She’s generous to the devout, implacably opposed to waste, needless destruction, and the corruption of the natural world.
The chant goes that when Angra Mainyu withered the primordial plant, Ameretat crushed that ruined first vegetation into pulp and mixed it with pure water; Tishtrya then spread it as rain across the world, causing new plants to spring up everywhere. This makes Ameretat not just a patron of existing vegetation, but a restorer of enduring life after cosmic damage, the goddess of regrowth after ruin, and the quiet certainty that life can be renewed.
Another darker prophecy claims that when Ahura Mazda returns at the end of time, the drink of immortality that’ll be prepared at the final renovation of the multiverse will be made from Ameretat herself. Drink up, cutter, she wouldn’t want you to waste a drop!
Edicts: Cultivate and protect living plants especially those that feed or heal, share your food, choose acts that strengthen life across generations
Anathema: Cause harm to fields or orchards, waste food, ignore an opportunity to restore something broken
Sources: Jon Winter-Holt. Mythologywatch: Limited information exists about Ameretat beyond her portfolio and origin. Details of her appearance, personality and realm are all homebrewed.