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Su asked in Society & CultureLanguages · 8 years ago

What does ABRAXAS really mean?

Does Abraxas represent a variation of the sun god or something else?

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  • ?
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    8 years ago
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    Abraxas was the name of a Gnostic deity worshiped during the time of Basilides. Abraxas was the great archon (or deity) beyond the seven spheres of the known planets.

    Abraxas may, with some room for error, be identified with the "divine mind" of Socrates, the primum mobile which the universe emulates in its circular motions.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    This should provide the answer you seek- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraxas

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Montfaucon_358_A...

    Top left, chicken tentacles.

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