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==Yaldabaoth== | ==Yaldabaoth== | ||
Yaldabaoth, otherwise known as Jaldabaoth or Ialdabaoth is a malevolent god and demiurge (creator of the material world) according to various Gnostic sects, represented sometimes as a theriomorphic, lion-headed serpent. He is identified as a false god who keeps souls trapped in physical bodies, imprisoned in the material universe. | [[Yaldabaoth]], otherwise known as Jaldabaoth or Ialdabaoth is a malevolent god and demiurge (creator of the material world) according to various Gnostic sects, represented sometimes as a theriomorphic, lion-headed serpent. He is identified as a false god who keeps souls trapped in physical bodies, imprisoned in the material universe. | ||
The etymology of the name Yaldabaoth has been subject to many speculative theories. The first etymology was advanced in 1575 by François Feuardent, supposedly translating it from Hebrew to mean Latin: a patribus genitus, lit. 'the child of fathers' A theory proposed by Jacques Matter in 1828 identified the name as descending from Hebrew: ילדא, romanized: yāldā, lit. 'child' and from Hebrew: בהות, romanized: bahot, a supposed plural form of Hebrew: בוהו, romanized: bōhu, lit. 'emptiness, darkness'. Matter however interpreted it to mean 'chaos', thus translating Yaldaboath as "child of darkness [...] an element of chaos". <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaldabaoth wiki]</ref> | The etymology of the name Yaldabaoth has been subject to many speculative theories. The first etymology was advanced in 1575 by François Feuardent, supposedly translating it from Hebrew to mean Latin: a patribus genitus, lit. 'the child of fathers' A theory proposed by Jacques Matter in 1828 identified the name as descending from Hebrew: ילדא, romanized: yāldā, lit. 'child' and from Hebrew: בהות, romanized: bahot, a supposed plural form of Hebrew: בוהו, romanized: bōhu, lit. 'emptiness, darkness'. Matter however interpreted it to mean 'chaos', thus translating Yaldaboath as "child of darkness [...] an element of chaos". <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaldabaoth wiki]</ref> | ||
==Gnosticism== | ==Gnosticism== | ||