Gnostic Glossary: Greek Pantheon

And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon. – Revelation 9:11

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Athena created the heroes amongst the Greeks; she gave them their armaments, crafted for them all of the elements they would need in order to face the terrors they had to overcome. See also Minerva.

Saturn / Cronus is the God of time, the God of endings, the God of death. We think this is very negative, but in fact, Saturn represents something we very much need.

(Greek: Κυβέλη Kybele) A symbol of the Divine Mother Kundalini. Among the Greeks she was known as Rhea, as METER THEON, “Mother of the Gods,” as Μήτηρ (Mētēr “Mother”), and as Μήτηρ Ὀρεία (“Mountain-Mother”). In Roman mythology, her equivalent was Magna Mater or “Great Mother.”