entities: ENT_VAL_DECAD

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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_DECAD Decad   Valentinian Aeonic collective / second tier of Pleroma Aeonic Collective divine emanation; second Pleroma tier; ten aeons; cosmic fullness; Logos offspring       A           The Decad is the collective name for the ten aeons emanated by the syzygy of Logos and Zoe, constituting the second tier of the Valentinian Pleroma after the primary Ogdoad. Irenaeus (AH I.2.5) names them as five male-female pairs: Bythios and Mixis, Ageratos and Henosis, Autophyes and Hedone, Acinetos and Syncrasis, Monogenes and Macaria (or Theletos and Macaria in some variants). These ten aeons collectively embody aspects of divine creativity, stability, and productive will. The Decad's significance in the Valentinian system is structural: together with the Ogdoad (first eight aeons) and the Dodecad (twelve aeons), it completes the thirty-aeon Pleroma whose fullness (plēroma) constitutes the divine realm. The crisis in the Pleroma is triggered not within the Decad but in the Dodecad (by Sophia, the 30th aeon), but the Decad's existence is the precondition for that crisis. Layton (1987) pp. 276-302. collective

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