So the _Pistis Sophia_ speaks repeatedly of the “Little Iao the Good.” This should be the sphere of the Moon. In the hymn to Attis given in this chapter, see n. 6, p. 54 _supra_, Attis-Dionysos-Osiris is identified with “the holy horned moon of heaven.” and the name Iao may be connected with the Coptic ⲒⲞϨ _ioh_ or “moon.” He may be called the πρῶτος δεσπότης θανάτου “first lord of death,” because Osiris, like Dionysos, was the first to return to life after being torn in pieces. The φέρων ἤδη τὴν ἰδίαν σύμβολον “bearing my own beard as a symbol” seems to refer to the attitude of the Egyptian dead, who is represented as holding his beard in his right hand when introduced into the presence of Osiris. See Budge, _Book of the Dead_, 1898 (translation volume), frontispiece, or _Papyrus of Ani_, _ibi cit._ Footnote 250: This may be the sphere of Jupiter, who in one of the later documents of the _Pistis Sophia_ is made ruler of the _five_ planets. Sabaoth is probably the Divine Name צבאות “[Lord of] Hosts” which the Greeks took for a proper name. It, like Iao, appears often in the later documents. The πεντὰς δυνατωτέρα “mightier Pentad” may refer to the Three Men (Adamas, his son, and Christos), and the Two Women (the First Woman and Sophia) placed at the head of the universe by the Ophites. Footnote 251: This should be the sphere of Mercury, the messenger of the gods and leader of souls, who, unlike the higher powers, sees the earth from anigh and without veils. The παρθένου πνεῦμα “spirit of a Virgin” may be the Virgin of Light of the _Pistis Sophia_, who plays such an important part in the redemption of souls. Hippolytus’ Naassene writer (Hipp. _op. cit._ Bk V. c. 9, p. 181, Cruice) speaks of Jesus as the true gate and talks in this connection of “Life-giving water” and of “we Christians celebrating the mystery in the third gate”—an allusion which is unintelligible at present, unless it refers to the waters of baptism. Footnote 252: The sphere of Venus? The planet is said in one of the later documents of the _Pistis Sophia_ to be ruled by a power from “Pistis Sophia, the daughter of Barbelo,” another name for the material antitype of the heavenly Sophia or Mother of Life, whom we shall meet with later. Footnote 253: The sphere of Mars? No allusion is made elsewhere to the φραγμὸν πυρὸς “fence of fire”; but we do of course often hear of an empyrean or heaven of fire stretching over the earth. The ζωῆς ξύλον is, according to both Origen and Celsus, the Cross; Origen, _op. cit._ Bk VI. cc. 34, 37. Footnote 254: The proper order would appear to be: (1) Horaios ♂ the guardian of the First Gate, _i.e._ that of Fire. (2) Ailoaios ♀ the guardian of the Second Gate, _i.e._ that of Air. (3) Astaphaios ☿ the guardian of the Third Gate, _i.e._ that of Water.