Note 382 — Chapter IV · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE ORPHICI
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Orphic Hymn XXX in Abel’s Orphica, where he is called “First-begotten, of a double nature, thrice-born, Bacchic king, Hunter, Ineffable One, Hidden One, two horned, and of double form.” Cf. his epithet “bull-faced” in Orphic Hymn XLV. So Clement of Alexandria quotes a verse from some unnamed poet that “the bull has begotten a serpent, the serpent a bull,” Protrept. c. II.