spark of life which raised him and made him live. Saturninus taught that after man’s death this spark runs back to its kindred, while the rest of man is resolved into the elements whence he was made. The same creation myth is reported by Irenaeus (I. xxx. 5) to have been included in the system commonly known as Ophite; and literary dependence of the two stories is clear from the common use of the word σκαρίζο. But according to the Ophite story it is not the Supreme Power, but Ialdabaoth, the chief