The source of the Gnostic stream was Mount Ararat in Turkey where the first Gnostic Prophets - Norea and Sethil first began to teach the Gnosis. The Gnosis then spread out with the migrating Indo-European peoples and took root in several places, including Mt. Hermon/Mt. Carmel and the Jordan River valley in the west, and Mt. Kailash and the Indus River valley in the east.  From its eastern center arose Shenrab Miwo and Hoza (c1857 B.C.), the first great Buddhas of Light of the Stream of Gnosis. Later Yeshu(2 B.C.-30 A.D.) and Miryai would arise in the western center of Mt. Carmel, and finally Mani (b216 A.D.) arose between the two to harmonize and add to them.

 SPREAD OF PROTO INDO EUROPEAN TRIBES & CULTURE

No one Ethnic or gender group has a monopoly on spirituality - all are equal in the Gnosis. Yet certain groups have played distinctive roles in the evolution of the Gnosis. One of these was the Proto-Indo-European group. Five or six thousand years ago this group began to migrate out of the eastern part of Turkey from the Mount Ararat region. A few migrated westward, but most went south and east to form the nucleus of many nations and peoples who belong to the Indo-European branch of languages.  This "Indo-European" family of languages  includes the Celtic, Germanic, Italic, Baltic, Slavic, Albanian, Hellenic, Armenian, and Indo-Iranian branches, as well as a number of smaller ones.  These various branches possessed a proto-Indo-European religion which was the precurser of the majority of the polytheistic religions of pre-Christian Europe, of the Bonpo and Dharma Faiths in Central and Eastern Asia, and of Zoroastrianism in Iran. Within this proto-Indo-European religion were the seeds of the Gnosis.

Early remnants of this proto-Indo-European religion can be found in such ancient neolithic sites as the Indus Valley, Göbekli Tepe and Catal Huyuk in Turkey, Jericho in Israel where the Nazorans were located, and other ancient locales.  Jericho existed by 9000 BC. The Temple town of Catal Huyuk was in existence by 6,500 B.C. The people of Catal Huyuk "were peaceful agriculturalists, mostly vegetarians," says Sjoo and Mor (The Great Cosmic Mother, NY 1987). This was true of the otehr ancient cities as well. The great reformers and Buddhas of this group, Shenrab Miwo and Hoza, lived in the Indus river region below Mount Kailash  around 1857 BC. Other great spiritual inovators lived along the Nile, Jordan, Karun, and other rivers.

The Great Mother Goddess was a major focus of this ancient Indo-European religion that was to so profoundly influence the later faiths of Europe, the Near East, and the Far East. She is represented by the Horse in Catal Huyuk shrines, and oft accompanied by leapards. The male God is depicted as a Bull. Thousands of years later, horses are still associated with the great Goddess in Bon and Tibetan Buddhist imagery. It would be a mistake to see the evolution of religion as a gradual sophistication of primitive fears and ignorance of natural law. Religions seem to evolve from childish to sophisticated ideas, but in reality they begin as heavenly communciations directly seeded into the minds of early humans.  Once seeded, these ideas are elaborated upon, misunderstood, and intellectually mutated. They spread to other linguistic groups who developed them even further.