relationship_id,subject_entity_id,relationship_type,object_entity_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status,period_id 2127,ENT_VAL_ENNOIA,paired_with,ENT_VAL_BYTHOS,high,"Irenaeus Adversus Haereses 1.1.1 (Valentinian system): before any emanation Bythos (the Forefather) existed with Ennoia (Thought) as his co-eternal consort; together they are the silent, pre-emanative dyad of the Pleroma.",SRC_LAYTON_GNOSTIC,approved, 2129,ENT_VAL_ENNOIA,emanates_from,ENT_VAL_BYTHOS,medium,"In Valentinian variants that treat Ennoia as the first emission of Bythos rather than his co-eternal companion, she is the primordial Thought emitted by the Forefather before the full Pleroma unfolds. Cf. Nag Hammadi tractates; SRC_NHC.",SRC_NHC,approved, 2439,ENT_VAL_NOUS,emanates_from,ENT_VAL_BYTHOS,high,"Irenaeus AH I.1.1: Bythos, after an immense period of silence with Sige, resolves to emit the beginning of all things. He projects Nous (also called Monogenes, Only-begotten, Father, and Beginning of all things) as his first emission. Nous alone among the aeons is able to comprehend the Father's immeasurable greatness. Nous is the first and highest visible expression of Bythos's inner being, paired with Aletheia (Truth). The emanation of Nous from Bythos is the first act of the divine self-disclosure within the Valentinian Pleroma.",SRC_IRENAEUS_AH,reviewed,PER_GNO_2ND_4TH