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Flood story according to Sethians (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Destruction of mankind through flood 01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery 01.02 Human history 01.02.04 Deluge 01.02.04.03 Destruction of mankind through flood Rescue of pious wise man 01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery 01.02 Human history 01.02.04 Deluge 01.02.04.04 Rescue of pious wise man	Keywords destruction of mankind flood punishments
Period 4th century CE Roman Empire	Channel Christian-Greek philosophers and scholars

Text
Epiphanius of Salamis, Panarion 3.3.1:
But once Mother and Female saw a great deal of intermingling and unruly desire on the part of angels and men, since the two breeds had become mixed; and she saw that their unruliness had caused certain combinations of breeds. So she returned and brought the flood, and destroyed all humanity (and) the whole stock of her opponents, so that only the pure stock, if you please - the one that derived from Seth and was righteous - would remain in the world to propagate the stock from above, and the spark of righteousness.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Epiphanius of Salamis, Panarion 3.3.1

Bibliography

Williams 1987, 257

Williams, Frank. The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis, Book I (Sects 1-46). Nag Hammadi Studies 35. Leiden, New York, Copenhagen, Cologne: E. J. Brill 1987.

Amar Annus

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