entities: ENT_VAL_DODECAD

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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_DODECAD Dodecad   Valentinian Aeonic collective / third tier of Pleroma Aeonic Collective divine emanation; third Pleroma tier; twelve aeons; cosmic fullness; Sophia origin; fall       A           The Dodecad is the collective name for the twelve aeons emanated by the syzygy of Anthropos and Ecclesia, constituting the third and final tier of the Valentinian Pleroma. Irenaeus (AH I.2.5-6) names them as six male-female pairs: Paracletos and Pistis, Patricos and Elpis, Metricos and Agape, Ainos and Synesis, Ecclesiasticos and Makariotes, Theletos and Sophia. The theological significance of the Dodecad exceeds the Decad: it is within the Dodecad that the cosmological crisis originates, since Sophia — the 30th and last aeon of the entire Pleroma, paired with Theletos in the Dodecad — is seized by a "passion" to comprehend the Father (Bythos) without her consort, generating an unbounded desire (enthymesis) that, when separated from her by Horos (the boundary), becomes the lower Sophia or Achamoth. This fall of Sophia triggers the creation of the material world by the Demiurge (Yaldabaoth), whom Achamoth produces without a divine partner. The Dodecad thus functions as the point of transition from divine fullness to material creation in the Valentinian cosmological drama. Layton (1987) pp. 276-302. collective

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