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The name ABRAXAS may have Popular Culture, Gnosticism, or Ancient Egyptian origins and have its roots in Christianity or The Mysticism Tradition.
From a word thought to have originated with the Gnostics or the Egyptians, found on many amulets during the last years of the Roman Empire. Abraxas was used by the Basilideans, a Gnostic sect of the 2nd century, to refer to the Supreme Being or god whom they worshipped; they believed it to be a name of power because it contained the seven Greek letters which, computed numerically, equal the number 365 (the number of days in the year)...
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