Borborites

Borborites
group of humans (en)

The Borborites possessed a number of sacred books, including Noria (the name they gave to Noah's wife), a Gospel of Eve, The Apocalypse of Adam, and The Gospel of Perfection. They also used a version of The Gospel of Philip, but a quotation from the Borborite Gospel of Philip found in Epiphanius' Panarion is not found anywhere in the surviving version from Nag Hammadi. Several of the Borborites' sacred scriptures revolved around the figure of Mary Magdalene, including The Questions of Mary, The Greater Questions of Mary, The Lesser Questions of Mary, and The Birth of Mary. The Borborites also used a number of sacred texts attributed to Seth, the son of Adam and Eve, including the Second Treatise of the Great Seth and the Three Steles of Seth. Although the Borborites did also use both the Old Testament and the New Testament, they renounced the God of the Old Testament as an impostor deity.

Ilimin sararin samaniya

Sun koyar da cewa akwai sammai takwas, kowannensu a ƙarƙashin wani Archon daban. A cikin na bakwai ya yi mulki wani mutum da ake kira Yaldabaoth ko Sabaoth, mahaliccin sama da ƙasa, Allah na Yahudawa, wanda wasu Borborites ke wakilta a ƙarƙashin siffar jaki ko alade; saboda haka haramtacciyar Yahudawa na naman alade. A sama ta takwas Barbelo ya yi mulki, mahaifiyar masu rai; Uba na Dukan, Allah mafi girma; da kuma Yesu Kristi. Sun musanta cewa an haifi Kristi daga Maryamu, ko kuma yana da ainihin jiki, suna kare maimakon docetism; kuma sun musanta tashin jiki. Rashin ɗan adam bayan mutuwa yana yawo a cikin sammai bakwai, har sai ya sami hutawa tare da Barbelo. Mutum yana da rai iri ɗaya da shuke-shuke da dabbobi.

Epiphanius ya kuma nuna cewa Phibionites sun girmama 365 archons, tare da 8 da aka lissafa archons kawai su ne mafi girma daga cikinsu. A cewarsa, namiji zai yi jima'i ga kowane ɗayan archons a matsayin hadaya.

Tangentially a lokacin da yake bayanin Nicolaitans, Epiphanius ya yi iƙirarin cewa wasu Gnostics, wani ɓangare na waɗanda "waɗanda ake kira Gnostics da Phibionites, waɗanda ake kira almajiran Epiphanes, Stratiotics, Levitics, Borborites da sauran", ya yi imanin Barbelo ya bayyana akai-akai ga archons a cikin wani tsari mai kyau don tattara maniyinsu, kuma a cikin aiwatar da yin hakan ya dawo da ikon da aka "shawo" a cikinsu. J. J. Buckley ya lura cewa wannan imani na iya zama tushen wasu bukukuwan Phibionite.

Sakramenti na Jima'i

Epiphanius ya yi iƙirarin cewa Borborites sun yi wahayi zuwa gare su ta hanyar Sethianism kuma cewa abubuwa na sacrament na jima'i sun taka muhimmiyar rawa a cikin al'adunsu. Ya tabbatar da cewa Borborites sun shiga cikin wani nau'i na eucharist wanda za su shafa hannayensu da jini da maniyyi kuma su cinye su a matsayin jini da jikin Kristi bi da bi. Ya kuma yi zargin cewa, a duk lokacin da daya daga cikin mata a cikin cocin su ke fuskantar lokacinta na kowane wata, za su dauki jininta na haila kuma kowa da kowa a cikin cojin zai ci shi a matsayin wani ɓangare na al'ada mai tsarki.

An kuma ce Borborites suna cire tayin daga mata masu juna biyu kuma suna cinye su, musamman idan matan suka yi ciki ba da gangan ba yayin bukukuwan jima'i masu alaƙa. Buckley ya lura cewa wannan yana nufin maganin jaririn da aka zubar da ciki a matsayin "tsuntsu mai ɓace", kuma zai yi aiki don hana shi bunkasa cikin wani jiki "don clutches na archons".

Tarihi

Tarihin Epiphanius

Epiphanius ya rubuta cewa yana da wasu ilimin farko game da ƙungiyar. A cewarsa, mata biyu na Gnostic sun kusance shi kuma sun yi ƙoƙari su ɗauke shi cikin ɗarika kuma su yaudare shi. Sun kuma ba shi damar karanta nassosi, duk da haka Epiphanius ya yi iƙirarin cewa ba a jarabce shi ba kuma bai shiga ba. Maimakon haka, ya ba da rahoton kungiyar ga bishops, wanda ya haifar da korar kusan mutane 80 daga birnin Alexandria.

17:4 For I happened on this sect myself, beloved, and was actually taught these things in person, out of the mouths of people who really undertook them. Not only did women under this delusion offer me this line of talk, and divulge this sort of thing to me. With impudent boldness moreover, they even tried to seduce me themselves—like that murderous, villainous Egyptian wife of the chief cook—because they wanted me in my youth.... Now the women who taught this dirty myth were very lovely in their outward appearance but in their wicked minds they had all the devil's ugliness. But the merciful God rescued me from their wickedness, so that after reading their books, understanding their real intent and not being carried away with it, and after escaping without taking the bait, I lost no time reporting them to the bishops who were there, and finding out which ones were hidden in the church. Thus they were expelled from the city, about 80 persons, and the city was cleared of their tare-like, thorny growth.

— Epiphanius, Panarion, 26, 17.4, 17:8–9. Translated Frank Williams.

A cikin rubuce-rubucen Mandaean

Gelbert (2013, 2023) ya nuna cewa wani sashi a cikin Ginza Rabba (Haka Ginza 9.1, sakin layi na 26 ) ya bayyana Borborites, kodayake ba a ba su suna a Mandaic ba.