The Eastern European precursors of the Cathars, for 10 points, name this Gnostic dualistic sect emerging in Bulgaria in the 10th century.
Alexius Comenus tasked Euthymius Zigabenus, a preparer of The Panoply, to refute the beliefs of this sect, who believed that the symbol of the cross is to be abhorred rather than venerated. Followers were divided into the slushateli, viarvashti and savarsheni. The earliest existing record of their theology comes in a work written in Staro-Slavic by St. Kozma and the name of this group means "Dear to God." This sect rejected a pessimistic form of Paulician dualism, holding that everything, save the human soul, was created by Satan, the elder brother of Jesus. The Eastern European precursors of the Cathars, for 10 points, name this Gnostic dualistic sect emerging in Bulgaria in the 10th century.
Alexius Comenus tasked Euthymius Zigabenus, a preparer of The Panoply, to refute the beliefs of this sect, who believed that the symbol of the cross is to be abhorred rather than venerated.
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