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Aion (deity)
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Aion is the name of several deities or divine entities from different belief systems.
- Aion was a Roman deity, the partner of Tellus. He represented eternity, but is also equated with Uranus, the sky, while his partner, Tellus, is equated with Gaia, the earth. The two are depicted in a mosaic in the roman villa at Sentinum, the modern–day Sassoferrato. An alternate spelling of Aion is Aeon.
- Aion, also known as Æon, also refers to a minor Anatolian deity in classical times. Aion is identified with Dionysus in Christian and Neoplatonic writers, but there are no pre-Christian references to Dionysus as Aion.[1]
- Aeon is a Gnostic term for a certain type of divine entity (of which there were multiple instances).
References
- ^ Guthrie, W.K.C. (1979). A history of Greek philosophy: The earlier presocratics and the Pythagoreans. Cambridge University Press,. p. 478. ISBN 0-521-29420-7, 9780521294201.
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