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So much of gnosticism has been lost. The Catholic church burned their writings and killed or exiled their leaders.
Several Xtian founder types (St Augustine was probably the one still most famous today) wrote against these "heretics." So we have their writings preserved, inadvertantly, luckily for us, ironically through the literalist Xtians.
Over the conturies, documents--codices, scrolls, have been found in their hiding places, in caves, in old monasteries.
What I am getting at is, no, as far as I have read, there are no surviving calendars of any note from any gnostic sect. There were dozens of different gnostic sects. There were hundreds of pagan mystery religions before that. Gnosticism survived in the works of Mani until the 1500's.
I would imagine their holidays reflected the wheel of the year, as the pagan's and Xtian's holidays do. Mithra was born in a cave on Dec 25. Paul, so early he was gnostic, was big time into the resurrection--rebirth of the spirit out of the heavy body, always associated with the rebirth of the earth at spring.
The gnostic cosmogonies were so complex--those authorities and powers Paul only hints at. 7 heavens/planets. Perhaps they each had their own day! Don't know, but now you've got me wondering. I'm sure you could extrapolate your Greek holidays out into pagan gnostic holidays.
So much of gnosticism has been lost. The Catholic church burned their writings and killed or exiled their leaders.
Several Xtian founder types (St Augustine was probably the one still most famous today) wrote against these "heretics." So we have their writings preserved, inadvertantly, luckily for us, ironically through the literalist Xtians.
Over the conturies, documents--codices, scrolls, have been found in their hiding places, in caves, in old monasteries.
What I am getting at is, no, as far as I have read, there are no surviving calendars of any note from any gnostic sect. There were dozens of different gnostic sects. There were hundreds of pagan mystery religions before that. Gnosticism survived in the works of Mani until the 1500's.
I would imagine their holidays reflected the wheel of the year, as the pagan's and Xtian's holidays do. Mithra was born in a cave on Dec 25. Paul, so early he was gnostic, was big time into the resurrection--rebirth of the spirit out of the heavy body, always associated with the rebirth of the earth at spring.
The gnostic cosmogonies were so complex--those authorities and powers Paul only hints at. 7 heavens/planets. Perhaps they each had their own day! Don't know, but now you've got me wondering. I'm sure you could extrapolate your Greek holidays out into pagan gnostic holidays.
