Aredvi Sura Anahita is the great yazata of the waters, praised at length in Yasht 5 of the Avesta (the Aban Yasht) as a strong, undefiled and healing power who drives a chariot drawn by four horses - wind, rain, cloud and sleet - and grants boons to those who worship her. She is invoked with Ahura Mazda and Mithra in the inscriptions of Artaxerxes II (4th century BCE), and her temple cult is attested at Istakhr, while Strabo describes her shrines in Cappadocia and Armenia. Hellenistic writers identified her with Artemis (Artemis Persike), and later Persian usage names the planet Venus after her as Nahid.
Modern Practice
In the tradition she is approached by the Aban Yasht and by offerings at water, for healing, purification, fertility and safe childbirth; modern devotional and occult practice keeps that core and adds Western water and Venus correspondences.