• The Fall and Division: According to certain Gnostic creation accounts, the primordial Anthrôpos or Adamas became entangled with or overcome by the material darkness, leading to his essence being fractured or encased in physical bodies by the lower creator god (the Demiurge).
• The Archetype of Seth: Seth, the third son of earthly Adam, is frequently associated in Sethian Gnosticism with the lineage of Adamas, preserving the seed of divine light and saving knowledge against the constraints of the material archons.