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Hermanubis or Abraxas


The Abraxas occult group in the second century

Hermanubis or Abraxas Hermanubis is a guide a leader of souls. Both are distinct deities or mystical figures while Abraxas represents a more abstract cosmic or magical power often depicted as a fox-headed man. They generally appear on amulets as a hybrid creature sometimes holding a mythical scepter and a palm branch. Both Hermanubis and Abraxas have roots in Greek-Egyptian tradition and Roman Gnosticism.
2nd-3rd centuries CE associated with Gnosticism.


Inscriptions on ancient amulets symbolize 365 days and Hermanubis, the Greek-Egyptian god Basileides a Christian theologian as the "spirit guide" who leads souls to the afterlife. The combination of Hermes, who guides the souls of the dead to the underworld with a human-fox head was popular during the Roman rule of Egypt.


A representative of light bringing divine knowledge to humanity Representatives of light who brought divine knowledge to mankind from the latter half of the 2nd century until the end of the 4th century. Later the Catholic Church considered Abraxas a "second-century heretic" whose mystical group identified Jesus Christ as their figure In the 4th century, the carvings depicted were mythological stories and mostly fantastical images. There were various inscriptions with messages stating that the merciful souls sent by Abraxas to the Gnenic world were represented by a supreme God.