Jiang identifies the solitary patriarch lit by the four stars as Cato, the ruler of Purgatory.
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Patriarch
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"...which the Wayne had disappeared. By now I saw a solitary patriarch near me, his aspect worthy of such reverence that even son to..."
"Okay, stop. Okay. So the solitary patriarch, he is the master purgatory and his name is Kato. Can someone tell me why having Kato..."
"...have these people and not like David, Moses, Abraham, right? The patriarch. Instead, you have the matriarchs, okay? So again, this reveals the revolutionary..."
"our patriarch thus uh he's referring to paul by the way okay paul keep on going such was our patriarch"
"I saw a solitary patriarch near me, his aspect worthy of such reverence that even son to father owes no more. His beard was..."
"And between Holy Patriarch Suryu and Mr. Putin, there are relations as symphony. A symphony that is Byzantine concept developed of Justinian, Emperor Justinian,..."
"...So the stories of Adam and Eve, the stories of the patriarchs. How can we explain it from a mystical, esoteric perspective? What's going..."
"The most important person in the family is the patriarch, the father. Then is the son who inherits. And the wife is just someone..."
"...the 17th century Jewish messiah, Sabatai Zevi, as well as the patriarch, Jacob. He and his followers converted to Catholicism, and the Kabbalistic mystic..."
"...have knocked so that the door be opened to them. The patriarchs, the Moses, Aaron, David, Solomon, and all the pillars of the world,..."
"...how the system works is at the very top there's one patriarch. That's where we get the word patriarchy, right? And then he has..."
"Now what the patriarch will do is he will identify very promising slaves. Slaves with talent. He will turn them into clients. So clients..."
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