Nebro
Nebro is the name the Gospel of Judas (Codex Tchacos, 2nd century) gives the demiurge: when the twelve angels are made to rule over chaos and the underworld, an angel appears in the cloud with a face blazing like fire and a figure stained with blood, 'whose name was Nebro, which is translated apostate.
Archon and demiurgic figure, not a god to be worshipped: Nebro appears in the Gospel of Judas (Codex Tchacos) as the name of the demiurge - 'which is translated apostate' - and the text itself says others called him Yaldabaoth, so he is a name for the false creator rather than an independent deity. The proposed derivation from Nebruel or Nimrod (Genesis 10:8-12) is scholarship, not gnostic doctrine. The planetary (Saturn/Pluto), zodiacal (Scorpio/Capricorn), tarot, Saturday and midnight values are modern Western overlays, and no sabbat is assigned.
Correspondences
- Planetary Correspondence
- Saturn
Offerings
- Offerings
- None, traditionally
Sacred timing
- Sacred Timing
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- NebrōNebro the Apostate
- Gender Expression
- Masculine
- Titles
- The ApostateThe Angel of the CloudThe Demiurge of the Gospel of JudasHe Whose Face Blazed Like Fire
- Symbols
- CloudFireBloodTwelve angelsThe apostate
Practice
- Invocation Approach
- ToneTextual and diagnosticAddressNebroThe ApostateRelationshipThe apostate that made the rulersWarningA figure of the texts not a god to callResonanceThose reading the gospel of judas and the archon lists
- Modern Practice
Read rather than invoked: Nebro belongs to the literary theology of the Gospel of Judas, and modern use is textual and diagnostic - a name for the apostate maker of the rulers, the power that turns away from what is above it and builds a world in its own image.
Nature and meaning
- Domain
- ApostasyThe demiurgeThe archonsThe twelve heavensThe chaos belowFalse creation
- Mythology Summary
Nebro is the name the Gospel of Judas (Codex Tchacos, 2nd century) gives the demiurge: when the twelve angels are made to rule over chaos and the underworld, an angel appears in the cloud with a face blazing like fire and a figure stained with blood, 'whose name was Nebro, which is translated apostate; others called him Yaldabaoth'. Nebro creates six angels and Saklas six more, and from them come the twelve angels who receive each a portion of the heavens and the rulers set over the chaos below. The name is usually derived from Nebruel or from Nimrod (Genesis 10:8-12), the 'mighty hunter before the Lord' whom the gnostics turned into an insult for the creator - a scholarly proposal, not something the text states.
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