{"database": "deitydb", "table": "entities", "rows": [["ENT_VAL_PISTIS", "Pistis", null, "Valentinian", "Aeon / personified Faith", "Aeon", "faith; divine trust; Dodecad; Paracletos pair; Pistis Sophia tradition; salvific trust", null, null, null, "A", null, null, null, null, null, "Pistis (\"Faith\") is one of the twelve Dodecad aeons in the Valentinian Pleroma, paired with Paracletos (\"Comforter\" \u2014 the Valentinian appropriation of the Johannine Paraclete concept). Produced by the syzygy of Anthropos and Ecclesia, Pistis personifies the theological virtue of faith as a cosmic, divine quality rather than a human disposition \u2014 in Valentinian theology, Pistis is the archetypal pattern of which human faith is a shadow. The figure of Pistis acquires much greater theological development in the text known as Pistis Sophia (possibly 3rd\u20134th c. CE), a Coptic Gnostic dialogue in which Sophia/Pistis is a fallen aeon who descends through thirteen emanations seeking rescue from the material realm \u2014 an extended narrative elaboration of the Valentinian cosmological drama. In the Pistis Sophia text, the figure named \"Pistis Sophia\" conflates the Dodecad aeon Pistis with the fallen Sophia, creating a hybrid narrative figure distinct from the Valentinian Decad/Dodecad structure. Layton (1987) pp. 299-300; Irenaeus AH I.2.5.", "aeon"]], "columns": ["entity_id", "canonical_name", "greek_name", "tradition", "entity_type", "category", "primary_domains", "tags", "cult_scope", "primary_period", "evidence_confidence", "review_status", "inclusion_basis", "earth_association_score", "chthonic_flag", "serpent_flag", "short_note", "entity_class"], "primary_keys": ["entity_id"], "primary_key_values": ["ENT_VAL_PISTIS"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.4194010002247524, "source": "jebboone/deitydb", "source_url": "https://github.com/jebboone/deitydb", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"}