Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

Animal-faced punishers in punitive realms

animal_faced_punishers_in_punitive_realms

A motif of the Afterlife Navigation and Passage family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions


gnostic

  • Pistis Sophia THE FIFTH DOCUMENT ... 193 / INDEX OF PSALMS AND ODES ... 201 / GENERAL INDEX ... 203 / INTRODUCTION; lines 7421-7505 confidence: medium

    Renunciations of murmuring, listening, litigiousness, false calumny, false witnessings, boastings, gluttony, and garrulity are linked to deliverance from fire or judgments of the face of a dog, punishments or pits of Ariel, and judgments or fire of Amente.

    Punitive imagery includes the face of a dog, faces of dragons, a lion face, a crocodile-faced ruler, and the great dragon of the outer Darkness.

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