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This man is born immediately before his sister Norea in the Hypostasis of the Archons. This man is referred to as “son of the Jar” by Yazidis, who believe that he was born after his father put his seed into a jar for 9 months. In the Greek Apocalypse of Moses, (-5[1])this man is bitten by a wild beast while he and his mother travel to retrieve oil from the Tree of Life. A sect named for this man described the creation of a feminine divine entity named Barbēlō (15[1])in the Apocryphon of John. (15[1])Basilides, (*) Valentinus, and this man name the major branches of 2nd- and 3rd-century Gnosticism. In some accounts, the male descendants of this man (-5[1])and the female descendants of one of his older brothers begat the Nephilim. This man was conceived (-5[1])after his two older brothers quarreled (10[1])over offerings of “fruits (10[2])of the soil” and a fat (10[2])sheep. For 10 points, name this ancestor of Noah, the third son of Adam and Eve. ■END■ (10[4]0[1])

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