1. Barbelo (Gnostic) Prominent in the Pistis Sophia, where it is referred to as "an invisible God"; but it is one of three invisible divinities. Another passage, in which Mary is speaking to Jesus, refers to Mary as having come from the region of Barbelo; leading C. W. King to remark that the deity includes "the Divine Mother of the Savior" (SD 2:570). But comparing other passages in the manuscript, it is clear that the term is not used in this latter sense alone