Zurvan (Persian god)
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- This article is about the Persian deity. For other uses of the name Zurvan, please see the disambiguation page at Zurvan.
Zurvan is the Persian god. In ancient times the deity was worshipped among other ancient Iranian peoples as well.
In Middle Persian, the language of Sassanid Persia (which had Zoroastrianism as the state religion), zurwān, "time", deriving from Avestan zruvā, stem zruvan-. "Zurvan" is not a native Persian language word, and is not attested in Old Persian.
