Bushyasta
Bushyasta
AKA Bushasp, Bušyasta, Bušiiasta
Titles:
The Long-handed, The Slothful
Culture:
Zoroastrian
Appearance:
As her epithet suggests, Bushyasta is possesses a lanky, slender figure. She is further described as having a gaunt, yellow-green physiognomy, producing images of one who is emaciated, sickly and inert.
Purpose/Role:
- The pure essence of sloth, idleness and laziness
- Causes the virtuous to procrastinate, striving to prevent them from carrying out productive tasks and improving themselves
- Induces lethargy, somnolence and inertia in the devout, causing them to forget and ignore their duties of prayer
- Weakens and lulls heroes to sleep so as to render them impotent against the other forces of evil