Zurvanism is a fatalistic religious movement of Zoroastrianism in which the divinity Zurvan is a first principle who engendered equal-but-opposite twins, Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu.
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11 Facts About Zurvanism
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In Zurvanism, Zurvan was perceived as the god of infinite time and space and was aka .
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One view considers Zurvanism to have developed out of Zoroastrianism as a reaction to the liberalization of the late Achaemenid-era form of the faith.
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The third view is that Zurvanism is the product of the contact between Zoroastrianism and Babylonian–Akkadian religions .
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That Mazdaism and Zurvanism competed for attention has been inferred from the works of Christian and Manichaean polemicists, but the doctrinal incompatibilities were not so extreme "that they could not be reconciled under the broad aegis of an imperial church".
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Arthur Christensen, one of the first proponents of the theory that Zurvanism was the state religion of the Sassanids, suggested that the rejection of Zurvanism in the post-conquest epoch was a response and reaction to the new authority of Islamic monotheism that brought about a deliberate reform of Zoroastrianism that aimed to establish a stronger orthodoxy.
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Materialist Zurvanism was influenced by the Aristotelian and Empedoclean view of matter, and took "some very queer forms".
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Fatalistic Zurvanism was evidently influenced by Chaldean astrology and perhaps by Aristotle's theory of chance and fortune.
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Pessimism evident in fatalistic Zurvanism existed in stark contradiction to the positive moral force of Mazdaism, and was a direct violation of one of Zoroaster's great contributions to religious philosophy: his uncompromising doctrine of free will.
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Zurvanism was then truly heretical only in the sense that it weakened the appeal of Zoroastrianism.
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Nonetheless, that Zurvanism was the predominant brand of Zoroastrianism during the cataclysmic years just prior to the fall of the empire, is, according to Duchesne-Guillemin, evident in the degree of influence that Zurvanism would have on the Iranian brand of Shi'a Islam.
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