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Mark the Deacon claims that the Antiochian missionary Julia bribed churches to follow this figure in Gaza. This figure returned each spring to judge his followers from a throne placed on a five-tiered platform. The archegos (10[1])(“ar-KEE-gohss”) led devotees of this figure who placed three metaphorical “seals” on their mouth, heart, and hands. The Bēma (“BEE-mah”) festival commemorated this man’s execution by the official Kartir (“car-TEER”). This man illustrated (10[1])his own doctrines (-5[1])in the Arzhang and described (10[1])three creations by the “Father of Greatness.” (10[1])This man’s followers were divided into “hearers,” who sinned (10[1])by gathering food, and the celibate (10[2])“elect.” His followers (10[1])briefly (-5[1])included Saint Augustine. (10[5]-5[1])For 10 points, (10[4])name this 3rd-century prophet whose namesake religion (10[1])centered on a (-5[1])dualistic (10[1])struggle between the World of Light (10[1])and the World of Darkness. (10[2])■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: Mānī [or Manichaeus, Mānī Ḥāyya, Manes, or Móní; accept Manichaeism, Āyīn-e Mānī, Móníjiào, or Míngjiào] (The word for the five-tiered platform, “Bēma,” is a cognate with the bimah found in synagogues.)
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