Daena (Avestan daēnā) is **one of the deepest concepts in Zoroastrianism** — the divine "conscience-soul," the inner spiritual self, **the personification of one's own moral choices that meets the deceased at the Chinvat Bridge**. In Zoroastrian eschatology, **she appears to the dead as a beautiful young woman to the righteous, an ugly hag to the wicked** — being one's own deeds made manifest. **Also: the etymological root of "dīn" in Arabic-Persian — "religion."**
Featured in the Avesta and the *Hadhokht Nask*.
Daena reduces to seven — the number of Zoroastrian conscience.