Ancient Psychedelia: Alien Gods & Mushroom Goddesses
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  R: (72h) c. 1275-1300 AD  (72i) Xing Tian The Anguipede consists of a serpent footed god with either a rooster’s head or a lion’s head. Abraxas is a well-known example (14b; 39c, d, f). The origin is likely Persian or even Indian, with examples like the Vyala Yakhsa, a mythological creature of Indian origin (14g). They are frequently represented on amulets, magical papyri and gems and sometimes include the monogram Iao, one of the Hebrew names for god. The deity is also wearing a skirt, a sort of veil or mushroom cap, seen on angels from a similar period (39d).   R: (39f) Abraxas Variation on Egyptian Intaglio c. 200-300 AD |
  R: (39d) Abraxas Variation. Steatite c. 100-600 AD From Thelemapedia we read: “(iota, alpha, omega) was the Greek form of the Tetragrammaton, IHVH (Yod-He-Vau-He, or Jehova, the “Bringer of Light”), the Hebrew divine name for God. Although a reference to Jahova (or Yahweh), IAO was also widely associated with both Hermes and Bacchus (Iacchus), especially in ancient magical texts and amulets.” (269) In the Greek and Hebrew versions they are featured holding a “flail,” an agricultural object used for threshing or removing grain from the husk which war-minded men like to call a whip or mace and a round shield of some sort which appears to be derived from an earlier simpler round form, possibly a mushroom cap. It’s possible that the flail as well, was a simpler object, like the stem of the mushroom (39g). There is an amulet that is known, that has a figure with two serpents for a head instead, and he is holding a was scepter in one hand and an Ankh in the other, both symbols for the mushroom (39e).   R: (39g) Abraxas Variation with Hecate (r.) c. 100-600 AD (269) http://www.thelemapedia.org/index.php/IAO (39c, d) © Genevra Kornbluth |
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