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Alexander the False ProphetLucian of Samosata
Chaos Magick & Contemporary Occultism
Alexander the False Prophet
- First publishedc. 180
- TraditionChaos Magick
- Shelf85 books
Lucian's satirical account of Alexander of Abonoteichus, founder of the cult of the snake god Glycon in the second century AD. It is the main literary source for the cult, though its portrait of Alexander as a fraud is deliberately hostile.









