what is daevas
Div on a Stamp of Azerbaijan. Daeva (daÄuua, daÄua, daÄva) is an Avestan language term for a particular sort of supernatural entity with disagreeable characteristics. In the Gathas, the oldest texts of the Zoroastrian canon, the daevas are wrong gods or false gods or gods that are (to be) rejected. This meaning is â subject to interpretation â perhaps also evident in the Old Persian daiva inscription of the 5th century BCE.