Noreia (Gnosis)
Noreia (also Norea , Noraia , Noria , Noraitha ; Aramaic for “the fiery one”) is in some Gnostic texts the wife of Noah who does not go into the ark, but serves the highest god. The deluge and the construction of the ark are initiated by the archons . According to the Nag Hammadi scripture, the essence of the archons , Norea is the last-born daughter of Adam and Eve, the virgin who was not defiled by the forces (the archons). Noah doesn't let Norea (that's why?) Into the ark, whereupon Norea burns it.
The figure belongs to a branch of Gnosis that emphasizes the feminine element of the divine. This Gnostic direction is originally from Syria. Apart from Nag Hammadi, it occurs among the Mandaeans and in Dura Europos . Bishop Epiphanius von Salamis mentions Noreia in his work Panárion .
literature
- Uwe-Karsten Plisch: Norea. In: Real Lexicon for Antiquity and Christianity . Volume 25, Hiersemann, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-7772-1318-7 , Sp. 1129-1133
Individual evidence
- ↑ Epiphanius, Panarion I, 26: 3-9; English translation: Frank Williams: The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis A Treatise Against Eighty Sects in Three Books ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Book I, Section 2, Part 26.
