"When Sophia saw what her desire had produced, it changed into the figure of a snake with the face of a lion. Its eyes were like flashing bolts of lightning. She cast it away from her, outside that realm so that none of the immortals would see it. She had produced it ignorantly."
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/apocjn-meyer.html
"He is the ruler of this world who is the Chief Archon who is the son of the creator God of Genesis and the demiurge of Platonism. The meaning of the name demiurge is maker which makes him the “creator of the material world.”"
"The important thing to remember with the story of Yaldabaoth is that it (he and she) is an artificially created life form said to be a lion-faced serpent, with its eyes were like lightning fires which flash that was on a throne surrounded by a blood and no one of the immortal ones could see it."
"Yaldabaoth (the Demiurge who was the ‘god of the Jews’)"
https://gnosticwarrior.com/yaldabaoth.html
"Yaldabaoth is frequently called "the Lion-faced", leontoeides, with the body of a serpent. We are told also that the Demiurge is of a fiery nature, the words of Moses being applied to him, “the Lord our God is a burning and consuming fire,” a text used also by Simon.
In Pistis Sophia Yaldabaoth has already sunk from his high estate and resides in Chaos, where, with his forty-nine demons, he tortures wicked souls in boiling rivers of pitch, and with other punishments (pp. 257, 382). He is an archon with the face of a lion, half flame and half darkness."
https://www.liquisearch.com/saklas/gnosticism/yaldabaoth
"Second Corinthians 4:4 says, "In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God." How is Satan the god of this world?"
https://www.compellingtruth.org/satan-god-world.html
"Satan is still the god, or ruler, of this world. Although Jesus was given all authority at his first advent, he clearly had not exercised it when Paul wrote the above passage. The awful history of hatred and evil since the time of Jesus is evidence that Satan is still in control of this world."
https://christianquestions.com/bible-questions/is-satan-still-the-god-of-this-world/
"And from matter, he made for himself an abode, and he called it 'heaven'. And from matter, the ruler made a footstool, and he called it 'earth'."
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/origin.html
"A veil exists between the world above and the realms below, and shadow came into being beneath the veil. That shadow became matter, and that shadow was projected apart. And what she had created came to be in matter, like an aborted fetus. It assumed a shape molded out of shadow, and became an arrogant beast resembling a lion. It was androgynous, as I have already said, because it derived from matter.
“Opening his eyes he saw a vast quantity of endless matter, and he turned arrogant, saying, ‘I am god, and there is no one but me.’
“When he said this, he sinned against all. And a voice came from above the realm of absolute power, saying, ‘You are wrong, Samael,’ that is, god of the blind."
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/Hypostas-Barnstone.html