Note 68 — Chapter III · THE CATHARI.
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Mosaic. et Roman. Legg. Collat. tit. XV. § 3 (Hugo, 1465).—Const. 11, 12, Cod. I. v.—P. Siculi Hist, de Manichæis.—Zonara Annal. tom. III. pp. 126, 241, 242 (Ed. 1557).—Findlay’s Hist. of Greece, 2d Ed. III. 65.
The Bogomili (Friends of God), another Manichæan sect, whose name betrays their Slav or Bulgarian origin, have been cited as a link connecting the Paulicians and the Cathari, but incorrectly, although they may have had some influence in producing the moderated Dualism of a portion of the latter. Their leader, Demetrius, was burned alive by Alexis Comnenus in 1118 after a series of investigations more creditable to the zeal of the emperor than to his good faith. They continued to enjoy a limited toleration until the thirteenth century, when they disappeared.—See Annæ Comnenæ Alexiados Lib. XV.—Georgii Cedreni Hist. Comp. sub ann. 20 Constant.—Zonaræ Annal. t. III. p. 238.—Balsamon. Schol. in Nomocanon tit. X. cap. 8.—Schmidt, Hist. des Cathares, I. 13-15; II. 265.
About the middle of the eleventh century Psellus describes another Manichæan sect named Euchitæ, who believed in a father ruling the supramundane regions and committing to the younger of his two sons the heavens and to the elder the earth. The latter was worshipped under the name of Satanaki—(Pselli de Operat. Dæmon. Dial.).