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Abrasax / Abraxas / Anbraxas
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Region: Basilidians, Persia
Time Period: 1st and 2nd Century
References in Literature: Hermann Hesse's "Demian" (1919)
Sources: Dencity, Circle of the Dragon, TyshaDragon, Jacob Ostergaard

Notes:
  • Cross between serpent and two-headed dragon with the head of a cockerel with two legs. Also shown as having a man's body and lion's head with scorpion feet.
  • Nasty temper
  • Carries a whip
  • Later identified with the Gnostics as another name for the Supreme
  • The seven letters were for the seven creative powers and could be added numerologically to 365, or days in the year.
  • Name could have also come from the magic word "abracadabra"
  • Name was often engraved on stone talismans

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