A female ruler. "The second order is called Ariouth the Æthiopian, a female ruler, who is entirely black, ... which stand under Ariouth the Æthiopian, that her regions are dissolved and ruined, and all the souls which are in her chastisements are carried off and cast back into the sphere anew, because they are ruined through her dark smoke and her wicked fire". www.webcom.com/gnosis/library/pistis-sophia/ps145.htm