Ashaqlun
Ashaqlun , also spelled Ashaqlūn , is a Manichaean demon mentioned in the Apocalypse of Adam in connection with the creation of Adam and Eve .
description
Ashaqlun is the son of the king of darkness. His wife is Namrael or Nebroel. Allegedly they created the first human couple, Gehmurd (first person = Adam) and Murdiyanag (mother of life = Eve). Ashaqlun said to the deformed:
“Bring me your sons and daughters; come, give me some of the light we have taken; it is I who will make for you a form like what you have seen, which is the first man (not the heavenly first man). "
“Bring me your sons and daughters; come, give me some of the light we took; It is I who will create a form for you just as you have seen it, which is the first human (not the heavenly first human) "
Now they brought their children to him and he ate the boys and gave the girls to his wife to feed on her “lights of life”. The two then reunited and Nebroel became pregnant. She gave birth to a son, whom she named "Adam". She then became pregnant again and gave birth to a daughter who was named Eva.
literature
- Paul Van Lindt: The names of Manichaean mythological figures. A comparative study on terminology in the Coptic sources. (= Studies in Oriental religions. 26.) Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 3-447-03312-6 , p. XIX (introduction).
- John C. Reeves: Heralds of That Good Realm: Syro-Mesopotamian Gnosis and Jewish Traditions. In: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies. 41. EJ Brill, Leiden / New York 1996, ISBN 90-04-10459-3 , p. 69.
- Michel Tardieu: Manichaeism. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Ill. 2008, ISBN 978-0-252-03278-3 , p. 80 ( full text ).
- Werner Sundermann : What has come down to us from Manicheism? In: Light Against Darkness: Dualism in Ancient Mediterranean Religion and the Contemporary World. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-525-55016-8 , pp. 245/46.
Web links
- T. Apiryon: Manes on hermetic.com