Abraxas/Abrasax

Origins of an Enigmatic Power

The mysterious figure known as Abraxas did not emerge as a well-defined deity. Instead, he became known as a complex name of power that traversed Gnostic cosmology, late antiquity magic and amuletic practices, gradually gaining multiple layers of meaning. Its earliest and most historically grounded form appears as Abrasax (Αβρασαξ, also Αβραξας), a spel…