Robert Price on The Origins of Gnosticism
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Therno I Too.
In Janism and samkia, which are almost the same thing theologically, they have a cosmogony that involves a something very much like genesis one. Even in another parallel too, which agis ties in with ancient greece, is the cult orpheus. Didn't they have that myth where dionysus is eaten by the titans, and zeus zapsem and ten, they both explode, and then the sparks fall into matter? I mean, nonosics could have borrowed from that, unless the orpheus was barring from persia, you know. And this, this translates right over in welia, in in the indian versions of
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