Rock 'n' roll stars to unite on stage in huge Mani tribute gig - as details of Manichester event confirmed

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Elcesaites

Also known as Elkasaites, Elkesaites, or Elchasaites. The name comes from the alleged founder, Elkhasai, Elksai, or Elkesai.

They were an ancient Jewish Christian sect in Lower Mesopotamia. Then the province of Asoristan in the Sasanian Empire, which was active between the early 2nd century & the 5th century CE. The members of this sect, which began in the Transjordan, performed frequent baptisms for purification & had a Gnostic orientation.

The movement blended elements of Second Temple Judaism, early Jewish Christianity, Gnosticism, & apocalyptic mysticism. It’s mainly known through the writing of early Church Fathers such as Hippolytus of Rome, Origen, & Epiphanius of Salamis.

The sect is mentioned directly only in the commentaries on “heresies” by the Early Church Fathers. Hippolytus of Rome records that, in the time of Pope Callixtus I, a Jewish Christian named Alcibiades of Apamea came to Rome, bringing a book that he said had been received in Parthia by a just man named Elchasai.

According to Alcibiades, the book had been revealed by an angel 96 miles (154 km; 337,920 cubits) high, 16 miles (26 km; 56,230 cubits) broad, & 24 miles (39 km; 84,480 cubits) across the shoulders, whose footprints were 14 miles (23 km) long, 6 miles (9.7 km) wide & 2 miles (3.2 km) deep.

This giant angel was the “Son of God,” who was accompanied by his sister, the Holy Ghost/Spirit, of the same dimensions. Alcibiades announced that a new remission of sins had been proclaimed in the 3rd year of Trajan (100 AD). He described a baptism which should impart this forgiveness even to the grossest sinners.

Hippolytus says that Alcibiades teaches the natural birth, preexistence, & reincarnation of Jesus. Also, Alcibiades teaches circumcision & the Law of Moses. Hippolytus then goes on at length to describe the group’s teaching on baptism. For all sins of impurity, even against nature, a 2nd baptism is enjoined “in the name of the great & most high God & in the name of His Son the great King,” with a plea of the 7 witnesses written in the book (sky, water, the holy spirits, the angels of prayer, oil, salt, & earth).

One who has been bitten by a mad dog is to run to the nearest water & jump in with all his clothes on, using the foregoing formula, & promising the 7 witnesses that he’ll abstain from sin. The same treatment – 40 days consecutively of baptism in cold water – is recommended for consumption & for the possessed. Hippolytus discusses in more detail the teaching of the book, including Elchasai’s Sabbatarian teaching & the instruction not to baptize under certain astrological stars.

Eusebius records a summary of a sermon of Psalm 82 delivered in Caesarea by Origen circa 240-250 AD, which warns his audience against the doctrine of “the Elkesaites.” Eusebius’ record of this sermon forms the 2nd source on the group.

150 years later, Epiphanius of Salamis ground it into use among the Sampsaeans (descendants of the earlier Elceasites). Also among the Essenes & many other Ebionite communities. Epiphanius also mentions that the book condemned virginity & continence & made marriage obligatory.

It allowed the worship of cult images to escape persecution, provided the act was merely an external one, disavowed in the heart. Prayer was to be made to the East. But always towards Jerusalem. He also records that the saints of Elcesaites were 2 women: Martha (“mistress”) & Marthana (“our mistress”).

All animal sacrifice was condemned, with a denial that it had been offered by the Patriarchs or in the Torah. The Prophets & the Christian Apostles were rejected. As well as Paul the Apostle & all his writings.

The Cologne Mani-Codex (dated from the 4th century) describes the parents of Mani (founder of Manichaeism) as “followers of the prophet Alchasaias.” Scholars have identified with Elchasai. Alchasaios is stated to be a prophet also honored by Mani. His name appears in several other sources on Manichaeism. But in such an altered form that the identification with Elchasai was clear only with the publication of the Cologne Codex.

The Codex deals with the Elceasites extensively and confirms some of the Church Fathers’ statements about them. It pictures Mani as a “reformer” with the purpose to “restore” the true doctrine of the prophet Alchasaios, which his followers had “misunderstood.” In particular, Mani criticizes their repeated baptism rituals.

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Der Vyros-Fluss führt jetzt im Winter viel Wasser, im Sommer trocknet er wohl fast vollständig aus. Nach starken Regenfällen verwandelt sich das steinige Bett heute stellenweise in einen reisenden Bach.
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Langzeitparken
Halb im Gestrüpp versunken parkt dieses altes Auto am Rand eines Grundstücks. Gras wächst durch Radkästen und Fensterrahmen, die Karosserie ist matter geworden vom Salz der Jahre. Ein Bild langsamen Verfalls, fast schon Teil der Landschaft.
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Entlang der Küste branden hohe Wellen gegen die Felsen, Schaum sprüht weit über den Uferweg. Kräftiger Wind treibt das Wasser auf, die Boote bleiben heute im Hafen.
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Der Mourtzinos Tower in Kardamyli diente einst als Wohn- und Wehrturm einer Maniotenfamilie. Die Mauern aus dem 17. Jhd wurden kürzlich zu einer Art Freilichtmuseum restauriert.
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Von den Mauern der Kelefa Castle gleitet mein Blick weit über die karge, steinige Landschaft der Mani, über Olivenhaine, zerstreute Dörfer und silbrige Meeresbuchten am Horizont. Das wolkenverhangene Licht dieses stürmischen Vormittags taucht alles in gedämpfte Farben. Starker Wind streicht über die Hügel treibt den Regen quer durchs Mauerwerk und lässt die alten Steine glitzern. Die Aussicht ist überwältigend; nur das Ausharren hier oben wird in dem Wetter bald zu ungemütlich.
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Die Ruine von Kelefa Castle erhebt sich eindrucksvoll auf einem Hügel oberhalb der Ebene von Oitylo. Sie wurde im 17. Jhd von den Osmanen errichtet, um die widerspenstige Mani zu kontrollieren - ein Versuch, der schließlich scheiterte. Schon wenige Jahre später fiel die Festung in die Hände der Venezianer, die sie kurzzeitig nutzten, bevor sie nach dem Rückzug erneut den Kräften der Zeit überlassen wurde.
Heute sind die Mauern verwittert, das Innere der Burg ist überwuchert von Gras, Feigenbäumen und Gestrüpp; ein wilder Garten aus Stein und Grün, der vergangene Jahrhunderte verschluckt hat. Um die Anlage zu umrunden, klettere ich über die bröckelnden, windumtosten Außenmauern.
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