Yaldabaoth, sometimes spelled Jaldabaoth or Ialdabaoth, is a malevolent god and demiurge according to various Gnostic sects, represented sometimes as a theriomorphic, lion-headed serpent. He is identi
A depiction of Yaldabaoth as a lion-faced, serpentine deity on a Gnostic gem in Bernard de Montfaucon's L'antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures.