Zurvanist Supersubstantivalism

Zurvanism was an ancient variant of Zoroastrianism. According to Zurvanism, the great powers good and evil, Ahura Mazda Angra Mainyu, were sons a greater god Zurvan, associated with time. Eudemus Rhodes, some Persian thinkers, presumably Zurvanists, took there be three principles underlying world: light, darkness, greatest all time (or perhaps, according Eudemus, space). This paper explores what metaphysics might underlie these doctrines, contemporary options we have for making sense where is ultimate principle. Among explored option that despite appearance many entities concrete world are identical stretches time, or somehow aspects time; they include times as parts, included in parts; properties hylomorphic compounds which matter; mixture dark; ends teloi everyday objects processes found among good,