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The obscure sect, dating probably from the 2nd century, professed to have regained Adam and Eve's primeval innocence. [2] Various accounts are given of their origin. Some have thought them to have been an offshoot of the Carpocratians, who professed a sensual mysticism and a complete emancipation from the moral law. [2]
The word is a pseudo-Latin neologism (real Latin: adamans, from original Greek ἀδάμας [=indomitable]; adamantem [Latin accusative]) based on the English noun and adjective adamant (and the derived adjective adamantine) added to the neo-Latin suffix "-ium".
Adamant is used as a translation in the King James Bible in Ezekiel 3:9 for the word שמיר (Shamir), the original word in the Hebrew Bible. [2] [3]In Greek mythology, Cronus castrated his father Uranus using an adamant sickle given to him by his mother Gaia. [4]