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
ENT_VAL_ACHAMOTH,Achamoth,,Valentinian,Lower Sophia,Aeon,lower wisdom; deficiency; restoration; psychic creation,,Valentinian,,A,candidate_verified_name,Valentinian core entity,2,0,0,Lower Sophia figure central to Valentinian myth.,aeon
ENT_VAL_AEINOUS,Aeinous,,Valentinian,Aeon/personification,Aeon,,,,PER_GNO_2ND_4TH,A,reviewed,,,,,"Ever-mind (Aeinous), male aeon of the Dodecad, consort of Synesis.",aeon
ENT_VAL_AGAPE,Agape,,Valentinian,Aeon / personified Love,Aeon,love; divine charity; Dodecad; Metricos pair; cosmic love principle; Pleroma binding force,,,,A,,,,,,"Agape (""Love"") is one of the twelve Dodecad aeons in the Valentinian Pleroma, paired with Metricos (""Measurer""). Like Pistis, Agape personifies a theological virtue as a cosmic divine reality. In Valentinian theology, the agape that binds the Pleroma is the divine love through which all aeons are oriented toward the Father — it is the binding force of the divine fullness. The prominence of Agape in the Dodecad reflects Valentinianism's deep engagement with the Johannine tradition (1 John 4:8: ""God is Agape"") and Paul's hymn to love in 1 Corinthians 13. For Valentinian theologians, Paul's statement that ""love never fails"" (1 Cor 13:8) while knowledge and prophecy pass away supports the aeon Agape's permanent role in the Pleroma even after the Fall of Sophia and its aftermath. Irenaeus AH I.2.5; Layton (1987) pp. 299-300.",aeon
ENT_VAL_AGERATOS,Ageratos,,Valentinian,Aeon/personification,Aeon,,,,PER_GNO_2ND_4TH,A,reviewed,,,,,"Never-aging (Ageratos), male aeon of the Decad, consort of Henosis.",aeon
ENT_VAL_AKINETOS,Akinetos,,Valentinian,Aeon/personification,Aeon,,,,PER_GNO_2ND_4TH,A,reviewed,,,,,"Immovable (Akinetos), male aeon of the Decad, consort of Syncrasis.",aeon
ENT_VAL_ALETHEIA,Aletheia,,Valentinian,Aeon/personification,Aeon,truth; revelation; divine reality,,Valentinian,,A,candidate_verified_name,Valentinian core entity,0,0,0,"Truth aeon, paired with Nous.",aeon
ENT_VAL_ANTHROPOS,Anthropos,,Valentinian,Aeon/primordial human,Aeon,humanity; archetypal human; divine image,,Valentinian,,A,candidate_verified_name,Valentinian core entity,0,0,0,"Human/Man aeon, paired with Ecclesia.",aeon
ENT_VAL_APORIA,Aporia,,Valentinian,Personified passion,Mythic process/category,,,,PER_GNO_2ND_4TH,A,reviewed,,,,,"Perplexity/bewilderment (Aporia), one of the fourfold passions of Achamoth.",aeon
ENT_VAL_AUTOPHYES,Autophyes,,Valentinian,Aeon/personification,Aeon,,,,PER_GNO_2ND_4TH,A,reviewed,,,,,"Self-produced (Autophyes), male aeon of the Decad, consort of Hedone.",aeon
ENT_VAL_BYTHIOS,Bythios,,Valentinian,Aeon/personification,Aeon,,,,PER_GNO_2ND_4TH,A,reviewed,,,,,"Profound (Bythios), male aeon of the Decad, consort of Mixis (Irenaeus AH I.1.2).",aeon
ENT_VAL_BYTHOS,Bythos,,Valentinian,Supreme principle/aeon,Supreme Principle,depth; ineffable source; primal father,,Valentinian,,A,candidate_verified_name,Valentinian core entity,0,0,0,The Depth or primal source in Valentinian theology.,aeon
ENT_VAL_ECCLESIA,Ecclesia,,Valentinian,Aeon/personification,Aeon,church; assembly; spiritual community,,Valentinian,,A,candidate_verified_name,Valentinian core entity,0,0,0,"Church/Assembly aeon, paired with Anthropos.",aeon
ENT_VAL_EKKLESIASTIKOS,Ekklesiastikos,,Valentinian,Aeon/personification,Aeon,,,,PER_GNO_2ND_4TH,A,reviewed,,,,,"Ecclesiastical (Ekklesiastikos), male aeon of the Dodecad, consort of Makariotes.",aeon
ENT_VAL_ELPIS,Elpis (Valentinian),,Valentinian,Aeon/personification,Aeon,,,,PER_GNO_2ND_4TH,A,reviewed,,,,,"Hope (Elpis), female aeon of the Dodecad, consort of Patrikos.",aeon
ENT_VAL_ENNOIA,Ennoia,,Valentinian,Aeon/personification,Aeon,thought; conception; divine intention,,Valentinian,,B,needs_review,Valentinian aeonic entity,0,0,0,Thought/conception figure; usage varies across Valentinian accounts.,aeon
ENT_VAL_ENTHYMESIS,Enthymesis,,Valentinian,Aeon/personified passion,Mythic process/category,,,,PER_GNO_2ND_4TH,A,reviewed,,,,,"The ""intention"" (Enthymesis) of Sophia: the formless, passion-laden offspring of her presumptuous desire to grasp the Father, separated from her by Horos and cast outside the Pleroma, where it becomes the lower Sophia, Achamoth (Thomassen, Spiritual Seed).",aeon
ENT_VAL_EPISTROPHE,Epistrophe,,Valentinian,Personified passion,Mythic process/category,,,,PER_GNO_2ND_4TH,A,reviewed,,,,,"Conversion/turning (Epistrophe), the redemptive passion of Achamoth — her turning back toward the light — from which the psychic substance (and the Demiurge) is formed.",aeon
ENT_VAL_HEDONE,Hedone (Valentinian),,Valentinian,Aeon/personification,Aeon,,,,PER_GNO_2ND_4TH,A,reviewed,,,,,"Pleasure (Hedone), female aeon of the Decad, consort of Autophyes.",aeon
ENT_VAL_HENOSIS,Henosis,,Valentinian,Aeon/personification,Aeon,,,,PER_GNO_2ND_4TH,A,reviewed,,,,,"Union (Henosis), female aeon of the Decad, consort of Ageratos.",aeon
ENT_VAL_LOGOS,Logos,,Valentinian,Aeon/principle,Aeon,word; reason; mediation,,Valentinian,,A,candidate_verified_name,Valentinian core entity,0,0,0,Word/Reason aeon in Valentinian syzygies.,aeon
ENT_VAL_LYPE,Lype,,Valentinian,Personified passion,Mythic process/category,,,,PER_GNO_2ND_4TH,A,reviewed,,,,,"Grief (Lype), one of the fourfold passions of Achamoth, from which (with fear and perplexity) the material substance is formed.",aeon
ENT_VAL_MACARIA,Macaria (Valentinian),,Valentinian,Aeon/personification,Aeon,,,,PER_GNO_2ND_4TH,A,reviewed,,,,,"Blessedness (Macaria), female aeon of the Decad, consort of Monogenes.",aeon
ENT_VAL_MAKARIOTES,Makariotes,,Valentinian,Aeon/personification,Aeon,,,,PER_GNO_2ND_4TH,A,reviewed,,,,,"Felicity (Makariotes), female aeon of the Dodecad, consort of Ekklesiastikos.",aeon
ENT_VAL_METRIKOS,Metrikos,,Valentinian,Aeon/personification,Aeon,,,,PER_GNO_2ND_4TH,A,reviewed,,,,,"Maternal (Metrikos), male aeon of the Dodecad, consort of Agape.",aeon
ENT_VAL_MIXIS,Mixis,,Valentinian,Aeon/personification,Aeon,,,,PER_GNO_2ND_4TH,A,reviewed,,,,,"Mingling (Mixis), female aeon of the Decad, consort of Bythios.",aeon
ENT_VAL_MONOGENES,Monogenes,,Valentinian,Aeon / Only-begotten,Aeon,divine sonship; unique knowledge of the Father; only-begotten principle; Nous variant; Decad,,,,A,,,,,,"Monogenes (""Only-begotten"") is one of the ten Decad aeons in the Valentinian Pleroma, paired with Macaria (""Blessedness""), and produced by the syzygy of Logos and Zoe (Irenaeus AH I.2.5). He occupies a special position in some Valentinian traditions because the title ""Monogenes"" is also applied to Nous (the second aeon, paired with Aletheia), who alone has knowledge of the Father (Bythos): ""Nous alone, which is also called Only-begotten and Father and Beginning of all things, was able to know the size of the Father"" (Irenaeus AH I.2.1). This creates a theological ambiguity in Valentinianism: there is a Decad-level Monogenes (paired with Macaria in the Decad sequence) and a title Monogenes applied to the second Ogdoad aeon Nous. The term ""Monogenes"" is also the Greek theological term used for Christ's divine Sonship in the Gospel of John (1:14, 18; 3:16), making this concept a bridge point between Valentinian aeon theology and orthodox Christology. Layton (1987) pp. 276-302; Irenaeus AH I.2.5.",aeon
ENT_VAL_NOUS,Nous,,Valentinian,Aeon/intellect,Aeon,mind; only-begotten; divine intellect,,Valentinian,,A,candidate_verified_name,Valentinian core entity,0,0,0,"Mind/Intellect aeon, often paired with Aletheia.",aeon
ENT_VAL_PARAKLETOS,Parakletos,,Valentinian,Aeon/personification,Aeon,,,,PER_GNO_2ND_4TH,A,reviewed,,,,,"Comforter (Parakletos), male aeon of the Dodecad, consort of Pistis.",aeon
ENT_VAL_PATRIKOS,Patrikos,,Valentinian,Aeon/personification,Aeon,,,,PER_GNO_2ND_4TH,A,reviewed,,,,,"Paternal (Patrikos), male aeon of the Dodecad, consort of Elpis.",aeon
ENT_VAL_PHOBOS,Phobos (Valentinian),,Valentinian,Personified passion,Mythic process/category,,,,PER_GNO_2ND_4TH,A,reviewed,,,,,"Fear (Phobos), one of the fourfold passions of Achamoth.",aeon
ENT_VAL_PISTIS,Pistis,,Valentinian,Aeon / personified Faith,Aeon,faith; divine trust; Dodecad; Paracletos pair; Pistis Sophia tradition; salvific trust,,,,A,,,,,,"Pistis (""Faith"") is one of the twelve Dodecad aeons in the Valentinian Pleroma, paired with Paracletos (""Comforter"" — 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 — 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–4th 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 — 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
ENT_VAL_SIGE,Sige,,Valentinian,Aeon/personification,Aeon,silence; hiddenness; primal consort,,Valentinian,,A,candidate_verified_name,Valentinian core entity,0,0,0,"Silence, often paired with Bythos.",aeon
ENT_VAL_SOTER,Soter,,Valentinian,Savior aeon,Revealer Figure,savior; restoration; redemption; pleroma,,Valentinian,,A,candidate_verified_name,Valentinian core entity,0,0,0,Savior figure involved in restoring deficiency.,aeon
ENT_VAL_SYNCRASIS,Syncrasis,,Valentinian,Aeon/personification,Aeon,,,,PER_GNO_2ND_4TH,A,reviewed,,,,,"Commixture (Syncrasis), female aeon of the Decad, consort of Akinetos.",aeon
ENT_VAL_SYNESIS,Synesis (Valentinian),,Valentinian,Aeon/personification,Aeon,,,,PER_GNO_2ND_4TH,A,reviewed,,,,,"Understanding (Synesis), female aeon of the Dodecad, consort of Aeinous.",aeon
ENT_VAL_THELETOS,Theletos,,Valentinian,Aeon / Divine Will,Aeon,divine will; Dodecad; Sophia pair; cosmological crisis; fall of Sophia; Pleroma limit,,,,A,,,,,,"Theletos (""Will"" or ""Desired One"") is the second-to-last of the thirty Valentinian aeons, paired with Sophia as the final male-female syzygy of the Dodecad (Irenaeus AH I.1.1-3; I.2.5). He is theologically pivotal: Sophia's fall occurs specifically because she desires to comprehend the Father without her consort Theletos — her passion/desire (enthymesis) erupts as a desire to ""know"" the Father directly, bypassing the proper mediation of her syzygy partner. Without Theletos, Sophia's unbounded desire cannot be contained, and it overflows the Pleroma boundary, generating the crisis that eventually produces Achamoth (Lower Sophia) and the material world. Theletos thus represents the principle of divine Will as the proper partner of Wisdom — the absence of Theletos from Sophia's creative act is precisely what makes her creation defective and material rather than spiritual. In later Valentinian theology (as preserved in the Gospel of Philip, NHC II,3), the relationship of Theletos and Sophia informs the discussion of proper spiritual pairing (the ""bridal chamber"" motif). Irenaeus AH I.1.1-3; Layton (1987) pp. 289-302.",aeon
ENT_VAL_ZOE,Zoe,,Valentinian,Aeon/personification,Aeon,life; animation; living fullness,,Valentinian,,A,candidate_verified_name,Valentinian core entity,0,0,0,"Life aeon, paired with Logos.",aeon