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heresy shmeresy i wanna be a dinosaur (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[-] antidote101@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Philosophy? That's specifically Abraxas from Gnostic Christianity, so more about theology than Philosophy.

Abraxas (or Abracax) was an anguipede (a deity represented with snake feet) pagan God of "Asian theogonies" with a "rooster's head, dragon's feet and a whip in his hand".

"The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas."