 In the later middle Persian texts "Bahram" is especially venerated as one of the Amesha Spentas, effectively giving him the high rank for his success in driving back Angra Mainyu

In the astronomical and calendrical reforms of the Sasanian (224-651 CE), the planet Mars was named Bahram.Zaehner attributes this to the syncretic influences of the Chaldean astral-theological system, where Babylonian Nergal is both the god of war and the name of the red planet.