Zurvan
TRADITION-KEY NOTE, raised rather than resolved. The corpus already holds a record keyed `sogdian_zurvan`. This record is not a duplicate of it and is not merged with it, on a precedent the corpus itself sets: it holds `zoroastrian_mithra` and `roman_mithraic_mysteries_mithras` as two records, because a divine name inside two religious systems is two figures for a registry that indexes traditions. Zurvan in Sasanian Zurvanism and Zurvan in Sogdian religion stand in the same relation. Whether that precedent is the right general rule is a question for the owner and it is now raised for the seventh lane running; what this record does not do is decide it by quietly merging, which would be destructive and irreversible. Weight is medium because Zurvanism is known largely through hostile Armenian, Syriac and Greek reports rather than through its own surviving literature.
Children in alternative accounts
- Ahura Mazda: Zurvanite accountMary Boyce, Ahura Mazdā, Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. I, pp. 684–687 (uncreated creator and Zurvanite accounts) (secondary)
Domains
- time
Relations
- progenitor of in zurvanite doctrine: Ahura MazdaThe kind names the doctrine inside itself, because the claim is true only within it. Orthodox Zoroastrianism does not accept that Ahura Mazda was generated by anything, and writing a plain 'father-of' edge here would enter a sectarian position as though it were the tradition's own. Nothing is entered in anyone's parentIds for the same reason.Reference treatment: the Zurwanite credo postulated Zurwan as a third entity who generated both Ohrmazd and Ahriman. (secondary)
- progenitor of in zurvanite doctrine: Angra MainyuThe other half of the doctrine, and the half that gives it its point.Reference treatment of the Zurwanite doctrine that Zurwan generated both Ohrmazd and Ahriman. (secondary)
Sources
- Zurvan is Time, postulated in the Zurvanite doctrine as a third entity who generated both Ohrmazd and Ahriman.: Reference treatments of Zurvan, of Zurvanism and of the Gayomarthiya. (secondary)