So, remember this? I wasn’t feeling too happy with the actual design of a creature I designed before so I decided to redo it.

It’s a design based LOOSELY on the Chnoubis, a creature with the head of a lion and the body of a serpent.

It’s used to represent YALDABAOTH, also known as the Demiurge, in Gnosticism.

I found a website on gnosticism that claimed the word “serpent” in the description of the Chnoubis was originally “worm”.

so I ended up infusing this creature with elements of a velvet worm, and possibly some tardigrade as well. I should probably have pushed the worm aspect further, though.

the big circle with the symbols around it? the symbols outside are sigils with a meaning that’s private to me. the symbols inside are simply the numbers 0 to 9