Crossword-Solution: ABRAXAS 7 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Solomon had his seal, by which he commanded all daemons; and there is a whole literature of curious nonsense, which you may read if you will, about the Abraxas and other talismans of the Gnostics in Syria; and another, of the secret virtues which were supposed to reside in gems: especially in the old Roman and Greek gems, carved into intaglios with figures of heathen gods and goddesses.

All were subject to a Prince of Heaven, called Abraxas, who was himself under guidance of the chief Æon, Wisdom.

Robert Thompson, the English authority, thus describes it: "The magpie moth (_Abraxas grossulariata_) deposits its eggs upon the foliage, and from them is hatched a slightly hairy cream-colored caterpillar, spotted with black, and marked with orange along the sides, and which forms a loop in walking.

Koshchei, or Ardnari, or Ptha, or Jaldalaoth, or Abraxas,--it is all one what I may be called hereabouts.

Many of these, as the familiar cream yellow and black larva of the Magpie Moth (_Abraxas grossulariata_), are very conspicuously adorned, and furnish examples of what is known as 'warning coloration,' on the supposition that the gaudy aspect of such insects serves as an advertisement that they are not fit to eat, and that birds and other possible devourers thus learn to leave them alone.