Gnosticism Theory Masterpost
In the Gnostic creation myth, Heaven – which the Gnostics called the “Pleroma”/“Fullness” – was all that existed until a divine entity named Sophia tried to conceive on her own, without the involvement of her heavenly partner or the consent of God. Sophia gave birth to a son that was the product of the rebellious and profane desire that had arisen within her.
This son of hers was the Demiurge (Greek: dêmiourgos, “craftsman”). When Sophia saw the horrifying, twisted being that had come from her, she was deeply ashamed and afraid. She disowned him and cast him out of Heaven.
The Demiurge gave birth to the archons, beings who were like him and could help him administer the material world. He then created the material world, which, like all creations, was a reflection of the personality of its creator.
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
In the allegory, Plato describes people who have spent their entire lives chained by their necks and ankles in front of an inner wall with a view of the empty outer wall of the cave. They observe the shadows projected onto the outer wall by objects carried behind the inner wall by people who are invisible to the chained “prisoners” and who walk along the inner wall with a fire behind them, creating the shadows on the inner wall in front of the prisoners. The "sign bearers" pronounce the names of the objects, the sounds of which are reflected near the shadows and are understood by the prisoners as if they were coming from the shadows themselves.
Only the shadows and sounds are the prisoners' reality, which are not accurate representations of the real world. The shadows represent distorted and blurred copies of reality we can perceive through our senses, while the objects under the Sun represent the true forms of objects that we can only perceive through Reason.
The Cave parallels the material world of Demiurge, in which Adam (Humanity) is the prisoner seeing the shadows and hearing the sounds.
Eve and Adam
The Demiurge and his Archons desired to create a being in the image of themselves and in the image of the original Adam (Jesus) within the Pleroma, but unknowingly breathed the power he had stolen from his mother Sophia into the lifeless shell that they called “Adam”. This caused the Demiurge and his Archons to become jealous, and imprisoned Adam in the Garden of Eden.
Sophia sent her daughter Eve to Adam, to reveal to him his true Divine nature and how to ascend back into the Pleroma. Eve is hidden inside Adam so the Demiurge may not find her. While the orthodox Christian version has Eve physically emerge from Adam’s body (being created from his rib as he slept), the Gnostic rendering has Eve emerging from the unconscious depths of the somnolent Adam. This parallels the myth of Cerces being born from a strand of Kephale’s hair as he slept.
The role of Eve was to awaken Adam, who was in a deep sleep. Eve represents the Divine Feminine and is the archetype Mother of all Life. Eve committed the Original Sin in the Bible (which leads to free will for humanity) by eating from the tree of Gnosis (knowledge) in order to bring enlightenment to Adam. Eve was Adam’s Teacher, raising Adam up from the darkness of ignorance into the Light of Knowledge. Aside from the clear parallel of being Phainon’s teacher, Anaxa 那刻夏 bears the same 夏 as in Eve 夏娃.
Anaxa’s role is to provide Phainon with the Fruit of Knowledge, preventing Lygus to draw Phainon over to his side.
Sophia and Logos (see also: Bug Trio Theory)
Sophia and Logos are related ideas; both have to do in some respect with “Reason.” Sophia is Reason that is internal to a person; Logos is Reason that gets expressed verbally. For the Gnostics, the drama of the redemption of the Sophia through Christ or the Logos is the central drama of the universe. The Sophia resides in all humans as the divine spark. Reason/Logos brings Wisdom/Sophia out of the darkness and into the light.
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Scene from Phainon’s trailer represents Adam and Eve meeting in the Garden of Eden by _WhiteTower
Comment by Phantom-21_4 on Anaxa plays the role of Phainon’s “Reason” r/PhainonMainsHSR by ShiroLovesKeith
The Gnostic Interpretation of Phainon’s Trailer ft. Anaxa by honglulesbianisms
