IAO: Ophite Iconography by Jose Gabriel Alegría Sabogal (Anathema Publishing, 2022) Hardcover

IAO: Ophite Iconography by Jose Gabriel Alegría Sabogal (Anathema Publishing, 2022) HardcoverJose Gabriel Alegra Sabogal. IAO: Ophite Iconography. Montreal: Anathema Publishing, 2022. Hardcover. 221 pages. Limited to 913 copies. Condition: As New Description from the publisher: IAO is an iconographic proposal, an attempt to illustrate the Gnostic worldview and its myths as understood by the Ophites, a sect of which little is known. It is, perhaps, an exercise of imagination, of what Christian iconography could have resembled if the Ophites

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