The Birth of the Demiurge by the Aeon Sophia at the Beginning of Creation

The Aeon Sophia at the Birth of the Demiurge, by David Tarleton.

This is the story of the creation myth of the Gnostics, who were a type of early Christian. They believed that the Aeon Sophia, who was the 12th emanation of God, gave birth without the help of her male half.

Because of this, when she gave birth, it was to a monstrous beast, the Demiurge Yaldaboath. He was born with the head of a lion and the body of a serpent. He was cast down from the pleroma, their heaven, and created the first shadows in a realm of eternal light.

A blind, mad god, Yaldaboath, in his pride, believed himself to be the supreme God, to have created himself.

In his hubris, he, this mad deity, created the material universe, where we live and go about our business, within this region of shadow.