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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.
Darkness88
Power86
Ignorance92
Pride84
Signature powerFalse CreationShapes a blind, lightless cosmos and calls himself the only god.
◈ Open relationship graph →Its universe
The mythic order Yaldabaoth belongs to, who comes before and after in the story of this world.
- Yaldabaothwho sent the water
- The Archonswho came for Norea
- The Epinoia of LightSophia’s hidden warning
- Noahwarned by the wrong voice
- Noreawho burned the ark
Voices & connections
Figures bound to Yaldabaoth, family and rivals within the myth, and the thinkers and writers who shaped how we know them.