The Authentic Orthography
Supreme Creator, Wisdom, Light · Wise lord
Why ahuramazdā.com is the correct form
AhuraMazdā
The name in its original Zoroastrian form. The original script is preserved in scholarly transliteration systems.
AHURAMAZDA
Stripped of its identity, the name was reduced to plain Latin letters. The original orthography — stress, length, breathing — was erased by systems that only understand A-Z.
AhuraMazdā
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
ahuramazdā.com → xn--ahuramazd-ecb.com
The non-ASCII characters in AhuraMazdā are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is AhuraMazdā.
How ahuramazda becomes AhuraMazdā
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | a | → | A | Same | Same |
| 02 | h | → | h | Same | Same |
| 03 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 04 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
| 05 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 06 | m | → | M | Same | Same |
| 07 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 08 | z | → | z | Same | Same |
| 09 | d | → | d | Same | Same |
| 10 | a | → | ā | Length | Macron: long a |
Why AhuraMazdā is classified as Tier-1 Macron-Preserving
The Zoroastrian original AhuraMazdā contains both stress AND at least one long vowel. However, there is only one historically valid Unicode restoration. The ASCII fallback is modern English, not ancient canonical. This is the full scholarly orthography — a single-tier Tier-1 name.
See how AhuraMazdā behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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