Abraxas originated as a mystical, cosmic concept in 2nd-century Hellenistic Gnosticism and was famously depicted as an anguipede—a creature with a human torso, a rooster’s head, and two writhing snakes for legs. Rather than being a conventional deity, the name was initially a numerological formula. In Greek isopsephy (gematria), the letters of Abraxas (ΑΒΡΑΞΑΣ) add up exactly to 365, representing Read more
To ancient biblical Hebrew prophets and most Muslims, the connection and similarities of the Yazidi worship of Melek Taus with gnosticism. and other ancient serpent worship cults of Kneph, Chnuphis, Sorath, Sanat Kumara, and Apollo was seen as heresy representing cosmic rebellion, idolatry, and the inversion of divine order. While modern scholars blindly view these connections through the lens of Read more
In Gnostic cosmology, the connections relating Yaldabaoth with Leviathan and Thabaoth (variously transcribed from Coptic/Hebrew variants like Tabeat or Thabaoth) are rooted in Ophite diagrams, the architecture of the 7 Archons, and serpentine visual theology. [1, 2] The Serpentine Entity (Ophite Diagrams) In the cosmic diagrams of. the Ophite and Naassene Gnostic sects (as detailed by the 2nd-century writer Celsus and Church Father Origen), Leviathan is not just a sea monster, but the World-Soul (Anima Mundi).[1] Thabaoth as an Read more
The anti-heretical campaigns against serpent worship within Ethiopian and broader African Christian and Hebrew histories represent a fierce, centuries-long battle against indigenous cults. In these traditions, the serpent was not treated merely as an abstract philosophical symbol of Gnosticism, but as a literal, powerful, and historical dragon-king (Arwe) that demanded human sacrifices and exacted political tribute. [1, 2] For both the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Read more
