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YAW the Primordial Dragon! Who is Yaw in the Bible?

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Who is Yaw the Primordial Dragon? Who is Yaw in the Bible? In Gnostic literature?
In the Book of Revelation 12:9, we read about the Dragon.

(The War in Heaven)
8 and they were not strong enough, and there was no longer a place found for them in heaven. 9 And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. 10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, he who accuses them before our God day and night.…

This passage equates the Dragon with the serpent of old, the devil, and Satan. Does Gnosticism also view all these characters as the same entity? Or is this conflation erroneous?

When did this war in heaven occur? And what/where is this heaven?
Is this throwing down the Dragon to earth the same as the Christian idea and teaching of Lucifer the Archangel having rebelled against God and consequently having been cast out of heaven and become Satan?

Who is the "God" that threw the Dragon, serpent of old, the devil, Satan out of heaven?

Could Yaw the Dragon be the evil Demiurge Yahweh (YHWH)?

Thanks.
 

nazz

Doubting Thomas
Who is Yaw the Primordial Dragon? Who is Yaw in the Bible? In Gnostic literature?
In the Book of Revelation 12:9, we read about the Dragon.

(The War in Heaven)
8 and they were not strong enough, and there was no longer a place found for them in heaven. 9 And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. 10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, he who accuses them before our God day and night.…

This passage equates the Dragon with the serpent of old, the devil, and Satan. Does Gnosticism also view all these characters as the same entity? Or is this conflation erroneous?

When did this war in heaven occur? And what/where is this heaven?
Is this throwing down the Dragon to earth the same as the Christian idea and teaching of Lucifer the Archangel having rebelled against God and consequently having been cast out of heaven and become Satan?

Who is the "God" that threw the Dragon, serpent of old, the devil, Satan out of heaven?

Could Yaw the Dragon be the evil Demiurge Yahweh (YHWH)?

Thanks.
Never heard of Yaw. There is a Yao in some Gnostic lit. Revelation is not a Gnostic work but I suppose that is one way to interpret it. The timing of the event seems to be after Jesus walked the earth.
 
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