ZURVAN (Av. zruuan-, Pahl. zrlwʾn), ancient Zoroastrian deity of Time.  Although the etymology of the Avestan word zruuan- causes difficulty,…

ZURVANISM, a hypothetical religious movement in the history of Zoroastrianism.  The first notices of a movement called zurvānīyya among the…

JEH, name of a female demon in a small number of Zoroastrian Middle Persian texts. The name of Jeh is…

HERMES, the Greek god of boundaries, the ‘trickster’ of the Greek pantheon, and the guide of souls (psychopompos; Figure 1)….

HERACLES (Gk. Hēraklēs, Lat. Hercules; Figure 1), one of the most popular Greek gods in the Hellenistic East and by…