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>A further reference is found in the so-called Hymn of the Magi, reported by Dio Chrysostom, a Greek philosopher and rhetorician of the first century AD. 50 Theopompus, a Greek historian of the fourth century BC, though not mentioning Zurvan by name, recounted a Zurvanite doctrine linked to a version of the astrological Great-Year. According to Plutarch, a Greek author of the first century AD:
>"Theopompus says that, according to the Magians, for three thousand years alternatively the one god will dominate the other and be dominated, and that for another three thousand years they will fight and make war, until one smashes up the domain of the other. In the end Hades [Ahriman] shall perish and men shall be happy; neither shall they need substance nor shall they cast a shadow, while the god who will have brought this about shall have quiet and shall rest, not for a long while indeed for a god, but for such time as would be reasonable for a man who falls asleep. Such is the mythology of the Magians."
>Zurvan Akaran, Boundless Time or Fate, was seen as the father of twin sons, Ahura Mazda and Ahriman, who battle each other for twelve thousand years, divided into four cycles of three thousand years, with each millennium governed by a sign of the Zodiac. During the first three thousand, ruled by Aries, Taurus and Gemini, Ahura Mazda created light, patterned after the celestial light. The second three, Cancer, Leo and Virgo, is the period of the creation of life in the material world: vegetation, fire, the primeval bull, and Gayomart, the primordial man. In the third period, Ahriman, who has been imprisoned in darkness, is revived by the Whore, and renews his assault on Ahura Mazda and his creation
>A further reference is found in the so-called Hymn of the Magi, reported by Dio Chrysostom, a Greek philosopher and rhetorician of the first century AD. 50 Theopompus, a Greek historian of the fourth century BC, though not mentioning Zurvan by name, recounted a Zurvanite doctrine linked to a version of the astrological Great-Year. According to Plutarch, a Greek author of the first century AD:
>"Theopompus says that, according to the Magians, for three thousand years alternatively the one god will dominate the other and be dominated, and that for another three thousand years they will fight and make war, until one smashes up the domain of the other. In the end Hades [Ahriman] shall perish and men shall be happy; neither shall they need substance nor shall they cast a shadow, while the god who will have brought this about shall have quiet and shall rest, not for a long while indeed for a god, but for such time as would be reasonable for a man who falls asleep. Such is the mythology of the Magians."
>Zurvan Akaran, Boundless Time or Fate, was seen as the father of twin sons, Ahura Mazda and Ahriman, who battle each other for twelve thousand years, divided into four cycles of three thousand years, with each millennium governed by a sign of the Zodiac. During the first three thousand, ruled by Aries, Taurus and Gemini, Ahura Mazda created light, patterned after the celestial light. The second three, Cancer, Leo and Virgo, is the period of the creation of life in the material world: vegetation, fire, the primeval bull, and Gayomart, the primordial man. In the third period, Ahriman, who has been imprisoned in darkness, is revived by the Whore, and renews his assault on Ahura Mazda and his creation
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