# Saoshyant The original, Persian savior figure that personifies eventology through his arrival at the end of the empire's heyday and saving it from demise. The Jews inherit the concept from the Zoroastrians, but reduce the phallic saoshyant from a global to a local figure who is called *mashiach* and who only directs its caring toward his own nation. This figure later returns as *the Messiah* within Christianity and Islam.