Picture a lion’s head twisted in permanent rage. A body wrapped in living serpents. Eyes that see everything but care about nothing. In ancient Persia, they called him Zurvan — the god of infinite time. In the novel Advent of Evil, Zurvan uses a cursed advent calendar to orchestrate twenty-four days of horror. But here’s the thing — Zurvan wasn’t invented for the book. He’s real. And his worshippers celebrated him on December 24th. And the real mythology is stranger than the fiction.
