Derdekeas = Pearly Emperor
Paraphrase of Seem |
Monkey |
Derdekeas = DAR ‘pearl’ (Strong’s 1858) + DOQ ‘curtain’ (Strong’s 1852). |
"Pearly Emperor" has a "curtain that concealed his sacred countenance." (EAM 4:88) |
"I am the ray of the universal light." (GB, p. 441) |
"From his eyes there shone forth a wonderful light which penetrated into the highest heaven" (EAM 4:83). |
"he had aroused the water" (GB, p. 442). |
"the rock-born money ... disappeared down the spring." (EAM 4:83) |
"I put on my garment" (GB, p. 444). |
"he ... seized the clothes" (EAM 4:84). |
"the toil of nature." (GB, p. 445) |
"to spend their whole time with worldly affairs." (EAM 4:84) |
"the cloud of silence." (GB, p. 446) |
"the Door of Silence" (EAM 4:85). |
"I came in the cloud ... . ... I appeared in the cloud" (GB, p. 446). |
"I ... can transform myself into a floating cloud" (EAM 4:85). |
"A light went down to chaos filled with ... dust, which is crooked below." (GB, p. 447). |
"this rod of iron ... emitting a brilliant glow from the earth where it lay buried." (EAM 4:86) |
"Osei, ... the eye of heaven" (GB, p. 455). |
"Thousand-Mile-Eye" (EAM 4:87) |
"the mind of the wind of darkness." (GB, p. 457) |
"Favourable-Breeze" (EAM 4:87) |
"the star of the light that was ... in Hades" (GB, p. 456). |
"The White-Gold-Star Ruler" (EAM 4:87) {platinum?} |
"Moluchthas ... has the likeness of ... a unicorn." (GB, p. 457) |
Sun was appointed "the master of the Imperial stables." (EAM 4:88) |
"the stars ... are cast out" (GB, p. 457) |
"the stars fell like rain." (EAM 4:88) |
"up to the root of the light." (GB, p. 459) |
"they became rooted to the spot." (EAM 4:88) |
"my garment of fire ... the sight of the fish. ... She blew upon the water. The heaven was created ... from the foam" (GB, p. 449). |
Sun "changed himself into a sparrow {is the the "red sparrow" as fire-deity?}, then a fish, then a bubble". (EAM 4:89) |
"She was about to restrain Soldas, ... who was set on high, on the tree of error" (GB, p. 459). {cf. twin brethren, who when they ascended a tree, had their clothing changed into tails (acc. to Popol Vuh)} |
"recognized him by his tail, which was changed in a flagstaff at the back, instead of in front, of the temple." (EAM 4:89) |
This was intended to "snare" Derdekeas. (GB, p. 459) |
Sun was caught by the "iron ring’ of Lao-tsz. (EAM 4:89) |
SoLDas = SeLeD (Strong’s 5540), from /salad/ ‘harden self’ (Strong’s 5539). |
No weapon "could make any impression upon" Sun’s body (because he had hardened it). (EAM 4:89) |
"they will behead the woman" Rebouel (GB, p. 460). |
"He managed to extricate his head and would have escaped. But ... ." (EAM 4:89) |
EAM = EAST OF ASIA MAGAZINE, vol. 4 (Shanghai, 1905), pp. 80-89 James Ware : "The Fairyland of China". http://books.google.com/books?id=YwQMAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA88&lpg=RA1-PA88&dq=curtain+%22pearly+emperor%22&source=bl&ots=HEi1ws60_7&sig=9hKDMcyS4avQjW9sdEhW1o3gJ94&hl=en&ei=wlQ6S6K8M8-vtgfQ4JiJCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=curtain%20%22pearly%20emperor%22&f=false
GB = Barnstone & Meyer : The Gnostic Bible. 2003.
[The Paraphrase of Seem, in mentioning a woman’s masturbating herself (GB, p. 450, fn. 36), is likely to have been composed by a woman.]