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- Zurvanism is a fatalistic religious movement of Zoroastrianism in which the divinity Zurvan is a first principle (primordial creator deity) who engendered...
- Zurvan is the primordial creator deity in Zurvanism, a now-extinct branch of the Zoroastrianism religion. Zurvan may also refer to: Time in Avestan Middle...
- genesis saw Zurvan as an androgynous deity, existing alone but desiring offspring who would create "heaven and **** and everything in between." Zurvan then sacrificed...
- these inscriptions a Zoroastrian signal. In some Zurvanism narratives, it is mentioned that Zurvan had a wife and had children with Ahura Mazda and Ahriman...
- scholars such as H. Schaeder and N. Sims-William have connected it with Zurvan. Their territory included between what is now the city of Zaranj in southwestern...
- Zurvanism is characterized by the element of its First Principle which is Time, "Zurvan", as a primordial creator. According to Zaehner, Zurvanism appears...
- of Vedic soma. Zorvan: Zurvan was perceived as the god of infinite time and space and also known as "one" or "alone." Zurvan was portra**** as a transcendental...
- proved it to be late Sasanian." Zurvanism is a fatalistic religious movement of Zoroastrianism in which the divinity Zurvan is a first principle (primordial...
- Zurvanism enjo**** royal sanction during the S****anid era but no traces of it remain beyond the 10th century. Unlike Mazdean Zoroastrianism, Zurvanism...
- Zaehner, Zurvan (1955, 1972). The oldest reference for Zurvan found dates to the 12th (name), and 4th (sources unclear) centuries BCE (p. 20). Zurvanism had...