The lion-headed serpent creator: the demiurge, the Devil God, the False-God.
The Devil God of the dead homech. 4, 13, 17
The sermons of chapter 4 say he was cast into the outer darkness, “of a Mother's mistake, unwanted and deformed.” His dying memory spews corruption onto the material plane, “this being his creation.” He calls himself the first and only God, and “this Demon God has fashioned your dream, your dead home.” Chapter 13 speaks of a raging God and hateful father who traps nameless souls in a tangled world, and of “the curseful chains from the demiurge,” “called devil-god by some.” Chapter 17 speaks to him directly: he eats the stars and himself, vomits and eats his vomit again, and fashions “a dead home made of dead memories,” until it names him: “Yaldabaoth: the ideal of imperfection.”
In his heavench. 10
Antony reaches “the gates of the Devil-God” and calls him “Demiurge of sixteen lies.” The demiurge flees on his slithering tail and is dragged back by it; his lion head shows as he hisses “like a child caught wrong.” Antony's spear splits the end of his tongue, “where serpents will be cursed with the opened front half of this mouth muscle.” He hides in shame in his own coils while “another below the demiurge,” Satan, attacks the angel.
At the ritech. 18
“Drop the seed, plant the seed of Antichrist,” speaks the demiurge, listed among the voices as “the Demiurge as a Devil-God serpent creator.”
Poured and betrayedch. 21, 25, 31
Leviathan pours out the demiurge and Ouroboros “as clay cups,” and the demiurge “will stumble into three times” the nothingness moat before surrendering (21). The good puppet announces, “Yaldabaoth is betrayed” (25). Wisdom of Limbo calls him “the devil-God Yaldabaoth,” Sophia's son (31).
Fleeing lifech. 33
At the spirit's saying, the Yaldabaoth runs, “trying to find life in their ignorance,” trips into the outermost moat, and finds no life there to consume, “only the nothingness swallowing his imperfect flame.” Saturn's rings hide on the seventh day in homage to “the suffering of its God.”
Crossing the moatsch. 36
Advised by 361 demons, he bridges the scalding river with his own angels, swallows the souls of the titans, tears the Sun from the sky and loses it in the tar, and nearly drowns. Lucifer, as a flying angel doll, pulls him out with a ladder made of a word in exchange for a realm of his own. Home again, he spits out a second Sun, breathes out the star Redemption, casts Curse down, and at last curses Lucifer and Ouroboros: “You and your brother are delusion kind.”