Zurvanism is a fatalistic religious movement of Zoroastrianism in which the divinity Zurvan is a first principle (primordial creator deity) who engendered...
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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...
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genesis saw Zurvan as an androgynous deity, existing alone but desiring offspring who would create "heaven and hell and everything in between." Zurvan then sacrificed...
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Zunbils (section Zurvan hypothesis)
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...
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Sasanian emperors. Under the reign of Shapur I, Zurvanism spread and became a widespread cult. Zurvanism revokes Zoroaster's original message of Ahura Mazda...
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Iranian philosophy (section Zurvanism)
Zurvanism is characterized by the element of its First Principle which is Time, "Zurvan", as a primordial creator. According to Zaehner, Zurvanism appears...
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Dyspessa zurvan is a moth in the family Cossidae. It was described by Yakovlev in 2008. It is found in Iran. The length of the forewings is 10–11 mm. The...
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context. In Zurvanism (Zurvanite Zoroastrianism, a now-extinct form of Zoroastrianism), Vata-Vayu represented two facets of the quaternary Zurvan. In this...
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Sarvāstivadā Pudgalavada Sautrāntika Madhyamaka Svatantrika and Prasangika Śūnyatā Yogacara Tibetan Persian Mazdakism Mithraism Zoroastrianism Zurvanism...
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Robert Charles Zaehner (section Zurvan)
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...
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