VanantPronunciation-needed is the Avestan language name of a minor Zoroastrian divinity. The name literally means `conqueror`, but in Zoroastrian tradition Vanant is the hypostasis of the `star of the west`, variously identified with Altair, Fomalhaut, Vega, Sargas or Kappa Scorpii/Girtab. Vanant may have its origins in the Sumero-Akkadian Van...
(Av.) Yazad of the Star Vega.