Yaldabaoth
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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.
The donkey-headed Set depicted in the Greek Magical Papyri
Yahweh
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Yahweh was an ancient Semitic deity in the southeastern ancient Levant that became the national god of the Iron Age kingdoms of Israel-Samaria and Judah. Although there is no clear consensus regarding
Yaldabaoth
…Yaldabaoth himself to the practice of interpretatio graeca, which Egyptians of the Ptolemaic Kingdom adopted from the Greeks. They identified traits of Yahweh, the Jewish god, with the Egyptian god Set, whom they considered malevolent. Set's Hellenistic depiction as having a donkey head was used by Egyptians…
God on the Winged Wheel coin
Uriyahu inscription, Khirbet el-Qom, 8th c. BCE, "Blessed is/be Uriyahu by Yahweh"
Seal of Hezekiah, 727 to 698. The winged disk is thought to represent Yahweh.
Winged disk seal reproduced in the Jewish Encyclopedia, 1906