DYK where the #Devil's horns came from? The #Manichaean spirits that inspired #Christian ideas of #evil were hornless. But for the #Vatican, sex is always #Satanic, so it took his horns from #satyrs who liked sex a lot! Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

From the Song of Mani: Rescued from Samsara: facebook.com/groups/gnost...

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#manichaean yin and yang

Nice to see, The Other Bible, by Willis Barnstone online at the Internet Archive. archive.org/details/othe...

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Here is an example of #Manichaean epigraphy:
Manichaean #manuscript fragment number "MIK Ⅲ 4979". (8-9 c. CE).

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#Manichaean was used to write Middle and Early Modern #Persian, #Parthian, #Sogdian, #Bactrian, #Uyghur, and #Tocharian.

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#Manichaean was an #Aramaic derived script. It was used liturgically in #Manichaeism, spreading from Central #Asia to #Europe and East Asia.

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