Demon · ◆ Darkness

Yaldabaoth

majorattested150 CE

The blind, lion-faced Demiurge of Gnosticism, the false creator who fashioned the material world and imprisoned divine sparks in flesh, ignorant of the true God above him.

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Ignorance92

Pride84

✦Signature powerFalse CreationShapes a blind, lightless cosmos and calls himself the only god.

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Its universe

The mythic order Yaldabaoth belongs to, who comes before and after in the story of this world.

The Unknowable Father
- The Christthe redeemer, sent from above
- The Aeonsthe Pleroma
  - Theletosher consort
  - Sophiathe fallen
    - Authadeswho lured her down
    - The Demiurgeher error
      - The Archons

Voices & connections

Figures bound to Yaldabaoth, family and rivals within the myth, and the thinkers and writers who shaped how we know them.

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