Savior

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Savior or Saviour may refer to:

  • a person who helps people achieve salvation, or saves them from something

Religion

  • Mahdi, the prophesied redeemer of Islam who will rule for seven, nine or nineteen years
  • Mashiach
  • Messiah, a saviour or liberator of a group of people, most commonly in the Abrahamic religions
  • Redeemer (Christianity)
  • Zoroastrian tradition envisions three future saviors, including Saoshyant, [sou-shyuhnt] a figure of Zoroastrian eschatology who brings about the final renovation of the world, the Frashokereti
  • Soter, derives from the Greek epithet σωτήρ (sōtēr), meaning a saviour, a deliverer

Music

Other

  • The Saviour (Спас), a militant nationalist organization in Russia
  • Savior (film), 1998 film starring Dennis Quaid, Stellan Skarsgård and Nastassja Kinski
  • Saviors (House), the 21st episode of the fifth season of Fox television series House
  • Saviour (comics), a 1988 comic book published by Trident Comics
  • SAVIOUR (robot), Pakistan's first indigenous rescue robot system
  • sAviOr, an alias for Ma Jae-Yoon, professional StarCraft player in Korea
  • The Savior, a statue of Sparda that Sanctus tries to resurrect in the video game Devil May Cry 4

See also

  • Salvador (disambiguation)
  • Salvator (disambiguation)
  • Salvatore (disambiguation)
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