Zurvan
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Zurvan may be:
toponymy
in popular culture
Zurvan is also a character in popular cuture:
- Middle Persian reflex of Avestan zruvan "timeTimeTime is a part of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change such as the motions of objects....
"- "Time", the transcendent deity in ZurvanismZurvanismZurvanism is a now-extinct branch of Zoroastrianism that had the divinity Zurvan as its First Principle . Zurvanism is also known as Zurvanite Zoroastrianism....
- Zarvan (زَروان), the personification of Time in the ShahnamehShahnamehThe Shahnameh or Shah-nama is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c.977 and 1010 AD and is the national epic of Iran and related societies...
- "Time", the transcendent deity in Zurvanism
toponymy
- Zurvan (زروان), a village in Larestan CountyLarestan CountyLarestan County is a county in Fars Province in Iran. The capital of the county is Lar. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 223,235, in 49,571 families; excluding those portions, the population was 183,887, in 40,837 families...
, Fars, Iran.
in popular culture
Zurvan is also a character in popular cuture:
- in Palladium BooksPalladium BooksPalladium Books is a publisher of role-playing games perhaps best known for its popular, expansive Rifts series . Palladium was founded April 1981 in Detroit, Michigan by current president and lead game designer Kevin Siembieda, and is presently based in Westland, Michigan...
, Zurvan is an alien intelligence that sometimes creates gods as an experiment. - as the name adopted by the Vizier in Prince of Persia: The Two ThronesPrince of Persia: The Two ThronesPrince of Persia: The Two Thrones is an action-adventure computer and video game developed and published by Ubisoft Montreal. It was released in December, 2005 in North America for the Xbox, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, and the Nintendo GameCube...
. - as the name of "the sea of dreams" during the closing credits of Chrono CrossChrono Crossis a role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the PlayStation video game console. It is the sequel to Chrono Trigger, which was released in 1995 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System...
- In Grant Morrison's The Filth, one of the members of the group called Status Quorum is a winged superhero called Zur-vann.
- Zurvan is the name of one of the Four Gods in Runepunk, a setting for Savage WorldsSavage WorldsSavage Worlds is an award-winning, universal generic, role-playing game and miniatures wargame, written by Shane Lacy Hensley, and published by Great White Games doing business as Pinnacle Entertainment Group...
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