Aion
deity intermediate Greco-Egyptian single tradition · 3
A deity of time and eternity appearing in syncretic form as part of the composite lion-headed snake Chnum–Agathodaemon–Aion on magical gems of late Antiquity. Associated with cyclical time and cosmic order in Greco-Egyptian magical tradition.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 200 BCE
- Attested period
- -200 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Appears in syncretic composite form on late Antiquity magical gems.
Relationships
- manifests as
- Chnum–Agathodaemon–Aion
- syncretized with
- Chnum, Agathodaemon, Saturn, Mandulis, leontocephaline
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (3)
Source passages
“surrounded by the lion-headed snake Chnum–Agathodaemon–Aion, with Harpocrates on the reverse”
#9060 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Aion (deity) Mystery religions”
#25342 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“in antiquity sometimes embodied by Aion.”
#45765 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free