Another Case of Human Semen Eucharist Among the Manichaeans?

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" Another Case of Human Semen Eucharist Among the Manichaeans? "
Johannes van Oort

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1085443
Doc. No	:	LA129072
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700720-12301031‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Johannes van Oort
Title & Author	:	Another Case of Human Semen Eucharist Among the Manichaeans? [Article]\ Johannes van Oort
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Vigiliae Christianae
Date	:	2016
Volume/ Issue Number	:	70/4
Page No	:	430–440
Abstract	:	The article focuses on a neglected passage in Cyril of Jerusalem’s Catechesis vi in which he speaks of the curious Manichaean ‘ceremony of the fig’. After providing the Greek text and a fresh translation of Cat. vi,33, an analysis is given of its contents. Noting that Cyril seems to have been well acquainted with those books of the Manichaeans (in all likelihood Mani’s Treasure) in which the myth of the Seduction of the Archons was told, I provide an overview and analysis of his description of the Manichaean ‘ceremony of the fig’. Cyril’s account seems to be corroborated by one or, perhaps, even two of the miniatures from Central Asia in which figs appear to be central in Manichaean sacred meals. The article focuses on a neglected passage in Cyril of Jerusalem’s Catechesis vi in which he speaks of the curious Manichaean ‘ceremony of the fig’. After providing the Greek text and a fresh translation of Cat. vi,33, an analysis is given of its contents. Noting that Cyril seems to have been well acquainted with those books of the Manichaeans (in all likelihood Mani’s Treasure) in which the myth of the Seduction of the Archons was told, I provide an overview and analysis of his description of the Manichaean ‘ceremony of the fig’. Cyril’s account seems to be corroborated by one or, perhaps, even two of the miniatures from Central Asia in which figs appear to be central in Manichaean sacred meals.
Descriptor	:	Augustine of Hippo
Descriptor	:	Cyril of Jerusalem
Descriptor	:	human semen eucharist
Descriptor	:	Manichaean art
Descriptor	:	Manichaeism
Descriptor	:	sexual symbolism of the fig
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700720-12301031‬