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Naassenes

Naassener {pl}hist.relig.

• The Naassenes (Greek "Naasseni," possibly from Hebrew נָחָשׁ "naḥaš", snake) were a Christian Gnostic sect known only through the writings of Hippolytus of Rome.
• The Naassenes (from Hebrew "nachash", snake) were a Gnostic Ophite sect.
• According to the Naassenes, paradise was the human head.
• In that book he treats of sects which paid honour to the serpent, giving to the first of these sects the name Naassenes, a title which he knows is derived from the Hebrew word for serpent ("Nahash"-נחש).
• There was besides a treatise which resembles the doctrine of the Naassenes.

• According to the Naassenes, the Protanthropos is the first element; the fundamental being before its differentiation into individuals.