Abraxas: (or Abracax)

The Basilidian (q.v., ) sect Gnostics, of the
second century, claimed Abraxas as the supreme god, and said
that Jesus Christ was only a phantom sent to earth by him. They
believed that his name contained great mysteries, as it was
composed of the se Greek letters which form the number 363,
which is also number of days in a year. Abraxas, they thought,
under his command 365 gods, to whom they attrib 365 virtues, one
for each day. The older Mythology placed him among the number
of Egyptian gods, demonologists have described him a - a demon,
with head of a king and with serpents forming his feet.
Represented on ancient amulets, with a whip in his. It is from his
name that the mystic word, Abracad (q.v.) is taken.