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	'''Zaruana Akarana''' (also ''Zeruane Akarene'' or ''Zurvan Akarano'', "the unlimited or uncreated time"), also called '''Zurvan''' (from {{Persian\|zurwān}}, [[w:Avestan\|Avestan]]: {{lang\|ave\|zrvan}} "time") as a dual-sex primordial deity, is according to later [[w:Persian mythology\|Persian mythology]], as it was handed down especially in [[w:Zurvanism\|Zurvanism]], the uncreated time and at the same time the supreme and most primordial deity. Zurvan is often depicted as a bearded man with a lion's head and wings and a snake coiled around his feet.		'''Zaruana Akarana''' (also ''Zeruane Akarene'' or ''Zurvan Akarano'', "the unlimited or uncreated time"), also called '''Zurvan''' (from {{Persian\|zurwān}}, [[w:Avestan\|Avestan]]: {{lang\|ave\|zrvan}} "time") as a dual-sex primordial deity, is according to later [[w:Persian mythology\|Persian mythology]], as it was handed down especially in [[w:Zurvanism\|Zurvanism]], the uncreated time and at the same time the supreme and most primordial deity. Zurvan is often depicted as a bearded man with a lion's head and wings and a snake coiled around his feet.

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[[File:Leontocephaline-Ostia.jpg|miniature|Lion-headed deity from a mithraeum in [[Wikipedia:Ostia Antica|Ostia Antica]] ([[Wikipedia:Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae|CIMRM]] 312)]]

'''Zaruana Akarana''' (also ''Zeruane Akarene'' or ''Zurvan Akarano'', "the unlimited or uncreated time"), also called '''Zurvan''' (from {{Persian|zurwān}}, [[w:Avestan|Avestan]]: {{lang|ave|zrvan}} "time") as a dual-sex primordial deity, is according to later [[w:Persian mythology|Persian mythology]], as it was handed down especially in [[w:Zurvanism|Zurvanism]], the uncreated time and at the same time the supreme and most primordial deity. Zurvan is often depicted as a bearded man with a lion's head and wings and a snake coiled around his feet.

Zurvan's children are the twins [[Ahura Mazda]], the god of light, and [[Ahriman]], the spirit of darkness. Ahriman, thinking that dominion would fall to the firstborn, forced his premature birth, but Zurvan rejected his sacrifice (cf. Cain and Abel) and Ahura Mazdao was elevated to king of heaven. Ahriman, however, was banished to the underworld where he would rule as the [[Great Serpent]] for 9000 years. According to the cosmogony and cosmology of the Bundahishn, the struggle between good and evil lasts 3 or 4 times 3000 years.

The [[zodiac]] is the outer expression of Zaruana Akarana. Twelve spiritual powers, the [[Amshaspands]], work within it, seven of which lean towards the light side and five towards the dark side<ref>Occasionally, one speaks only roughly of six light and six dark powers.</ref>. Together they form the annex for the twelve nerve pairs of the head.

{{GZ|It is now very difficult to create a concept of what Zarathustra saw as the unity behind Ormuzd and Ahriman, of which the Greek writers already told us that the ancient Persians worshipped it as that which lives in unity, and what Zarathustra called "Zeruane akarene", that is, what stands behind the light. How can we create a concept for what Zarathustra and the Zarathustra teaching understand by "Zeruane akarene" or "Zaruana akarana"?

Let us think of the course of development. We must imagine that the development towards the future proceeds in such a way that the beings become more and more perfect, so that when we look into the future we see more and more the glow of the kingdom of light, of Ormuzd. If we look into the past, we see how the forces lie there which must completely cease with time, which must be defeated, so that we look into the forces opposing Ormuzd, into the Ahrimanic forces. Now one has to imagine that this bridge into the future as well as into the past leads to the same point. This is an idea that is extraordinarily difficult for people today. Let us imagine a circle: if we go from the lowest point to one side, we come to the opposite point at the top; if we go to the other side, we also come to the same point. If we make the circle bigger, we have to go further, and the arc becomes flatter and flatter. Now we can make the circle larger and larger, then the end is that the circle line finally becomes a straight line: then the path goes to infinity to one side and to the other side also. But just before that, if we did not go so far, if we did not make the circle so large, then, if we went to one side as to the other, we would come to one and the same point. Now why should not the same be true if the circle becomes so flat that its line becomes a straight line? Then one point in infinity must be the same as the point on the other side. And if one could only hold one's breath long enough, one should be able to go to one side and come back on the other. That is to say, for a conception that grasps infinity, there is a line that runs into infinity on both sides, but which is actually a circular line.

What I have now presented to you as an abstraction is based in Zarathustra's view on what he meant by Zaruana akarana. We look into the future on one side - according to time - and into the past on the other; but time closes into a circle, only this union lies in infinity. And this self-finding serpent of eternity - which can be represented by the serpent biting its own tail - is interwoven with both the power of light, which shines brighter and brighter for us as we look to one side, and the power of darkness, which seems darker and darker for us as we look to the other side. And when we ourselves stand in the middle of it, we ourselves have light and shadow - Ormuzd and Ahriman - mixed up. Everything is woven into the self-finding, infinite stream of time: Zaruana akarana.|60|268ff}}

== Literature ==
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft auf die großen Fragen des Daseins'', [[GA 60]] (1983), ISBN 3-7274-0600-3 {{Lectures|060}}

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