Brewer's: Archontics

Heretics of the second century, who held a number of idle stories about creation, which they attributed to a number of agents called “archons.” (Greek, archon , a prince or ruler.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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