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The Cainites or Cainians (Greek: Καϊνοί, Kainoi, and Καϊανοί, Kaianoi)[1] were a Gnostic and antinomian sect known to venerate Cain as the first victim of the Demiurge, the deity of the Old Testament, who was identified by many groups of Gnostics as evil. The sect was relatively small.[vague] They were mentioned by Tertullian and Irenaeus as existing in the eastern Roman Empire during the 2nd century. One of their purported religious texts was the Gospel of Judas.
^The name is variously written; Καϊνοί (Hippol. Ref. viii. 20; Theodoret, Haer. Fab. i. 15); Caini (Praedest. Cod.); Καϊανισταί (Clem. Alex. Strom. vii. 17), Καϊανοί (Epiphanius, Haer. 38; Origen, contra Celsum, iii. 13, but his translator Gelenius gives Cainani); Caiani (Philast. 2; Augustin. Haer. 18, Praedest. 18, codd.); Gaiana haeresis (Tertullian de Praescrip. 33, and de Bapt. 1), but Jerome writing with a clear reference to the latter passage of Tertullian has Caina (Ep. 83, ad Oceanum, and contra Vigilantium). Elsewhere he seems to have Cainaei (Dial. adv. Lucifer. 33); but many MSS. here have Chaldaei. So also Cainaei (Pseudo-Tertullian, 7), Cainiani (Praedest. Codd.). Irenaeus (i. 31) describes the doctrines of the sect, but gives them no title.
Crusader Kings 3. The Cainites are featured as antagonists in the Spanish HBO series 30 Coins. In Vampire: the Masquerade, the Cainites are re-imagined as...
tempt most of the Sethites to come down from their mountain and join the Cainites in the valley below, under the instigation of Genun, son of Lamech. This...
Philaster's (4th century AD) Catalogue of Heresies places the Ophites, Cainites, and Sethians as pre-Christian Jewish sects. However, since Sethians identified...
the gnostics, who claimed gnosis from the risen Christ. The Naassenes, Cainites, and Valentinians referred to Paul's epistles. Timothy Freke and Peter...
The Gospel of Judas is a non-canonical Gnostic gospel. The content consists of conversations between Jesus and Judas Iscariot. Given that it includes late...
beginning his treatise on heresies with the Ophites, and making the Ophites, Cainites, and Sethians pre-Christian sects. The section of Hippolytus appears to...
many Gnostic sects. Irenaeus records the beliefs of one Gnostic sect, the Cainites, who believed that Judas was an instrument of the Sophia, Divine Wisdom...
The Sethite line in Genesis 5 extends to Noah and his three sons. The Cainite line in Genesis 4 runs to Naamah.[citation needed] The seventh generation...
Adam. The "daughters of men" are viewed as the descendants of Cain (or Cainites). Variations of this view were also received by Jewish philosophers. Traditionalists...
role-playing game Vampire: the Masquerade (1991) refers to vampires as "Cainites" after Cain, who is referred to as the first vampire. Country music group...
offspring of Seth were said to have disobeyed God, by breeding with the Cainites and producing wicked children "who were all unlike", thus angering God...
wives which are generally similar to those in Jubilees, but he makes them Cainites rather than Sethites, despite clearly stating elsewhere that none of Noah's...
of Luke that did not contain any references to the Old Testament. The Cainites apparently used the Gospel of Judas. The Protestant Bible The Church of...
expressions of Greek culture: fate, fortune, misfortune. p. 103-104 Borborites Cainites Ebionites Epiphanes (gnostic) Fathers of Christian Gnosticism Gnosticism...
Black skin are "Canaanites" who are under the curse of Cain. The term Cainite is usually used to refer to a descendant of Cain. The term Canaanite can...
between left-wing liberalism and the Bourbon dynasty, and therefore of the Cainite struggles sustained for decades between the various families of Hispanic...
commentary against various sects of Monophysites (Severans, Theodosians, Cainites and Acephali) he left eleven discourses in defence of Pope Leo I and the...
settled by the Adamite race. Since Cain had been expelled from the area, the Cainites survived the Flood, continually moving eastward and ultimately settling...
or Na'amah can refer to: Naamah (Genesis), the daughter of Lamech the Cainite Naamah, Noah's wife in some extra-Biblical traditions Naamah (wife of Solomon)...
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