Zurvanism | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-01-08

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00:01:14 1 Origins and background
00:03:43 2 Evidence of the cult
00:08:07 3 History and development
00:08:17 3.1 Ascent and acceptance
00:11:22 3.2 Decline and disappearance
00:15:06 4 The "twin brother" doctrine
00:17:40 4.1 Creation story
00:20:47 5 Types of Zurvanism
00:21:25 5.1 Aesthetic Zurvanism
00:22:45 5.2 Materialist Zurvanism
00:24:41 5.3 Fatalistic Zurvanism
00:26:04 6 Mistaken identity
00:27:12 7 The legacy of Zurvanism
00:37:54 8 Bibliography
00:41:45 9 Further reading



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Zurvanism is an extinct branch of Zoroastrianism in which the divinity Zurvan is a First Principle (primordial creator deity) who engendered equal-but-opposite twins, Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu. Zurvanism is also known as "Zurvanite Zoroastrianism", and may be contrasted with Mazdaism.
In Zurvanism, Zurvan was perceived as the god of infinite time and space and was aka ("one", "alone"). Zurvan was portrayed as a transcendental and neutral god, without passion, and one for whom there was no distinction between good or evil. The name 'Zurvan' is a normalized rendition of the word, which in Middle Persian appears as either Zurvān, Zruvān or Zarvān. The Middle Persian name derives from  Avestan zruvan-, "time", which is grammatically without gender.