{"database": "deitydb", "table": "v_public_adversarial_beings", "is_view": false, "human_description_en": "", "rows": [[1, "ENT_ANT_AHRIMAN", "Ahriman", "Anthroposophy", "Adversarial being", "materialism; mechanization; coldness; intellectual hardening; spiritual deadening", "In Steiner's cosmology the cold, contracting adversary-being who drags humanity into materialism and denial of the spirit; the name is adapted from Zoroastrian Ahriman (Angra Mainyu) but the being is a distinct Anthroposophical re-conception."], [2, "ENT_ANT_LUCIFER", "Lucifer (Anthroposophical)", "Anthroposophy", "Adversarial being", "pride; egotism; false spirituality; fantasy; inflation; illusion", "Steiner's warm, expanding adversary-being of pride, fantasy, and false/inflated spirituality, the polar opposite of Ahriman; a deliberate re-conception that shares only the name with the Christian fallen-angel Lucifer."], [3, "ENT_ANT_SORAT", "Sorat", "Anthroposophy", "Eschatological adversary", "anti-Christ force; the Sun-Demon; the Beast; the number 666; opposition to the Sun-Being", "Steiner's Sun-Demon and Beast/Antichrist being, adversary of the Sun-Christ and associated with the number 666; named from the Agrippan solar spirit Sorath, distinct from the Lucifer-Ahriman-Asuras polarity."], [4, "ENT_ANT_ASURAS", "The Asuras", "Anthroposophy", "Adversarial collective", "spirit-self corruption; egoity; destruction of the I; the most dangerous temptation", "In Steiner's teaching the third and most dangerous class of adversary-beings, attacking the human spirit-self (the 'I'); the name is borrowed from the Indian asuras but designates a distinct Anthroposophical class."], [5, "ENT_ANT_ADVERSARIES", "The Threefold Adversaries", "Anthroposophy", "Adversarial collective", "adversary powers; threefold opposition; the Lucifer-Ahriman-Asuras grouping", "Collective grouping the three classes of adversary-being in Steiner's cosmology (Lucifer, Ahriman, and the Asuras), whose opposed pulls human spiritual development must learn to balance."], [6, "ENT_BALT_PATULAS", "Patulas (Pikuolis)", "Baltic", "Death / underworld god", "death; the underworld; night; evil", "Old Prussian god of the dead and the underworld (Patulas/Pikuolis/Pecols), the third of the Romuva triad, lord of night and darkness."], [7, "ENT_BALT_PERKUNAS", "Perk\u016bnas", "Baltic", "Thunder Deity", "thunder; lightning; storm; order; battle against chaos", "Thunder deity; Lithuanian Perk\u016bnas, Latvian P\u0113rkons, Old Prussian Percunis. Name from Baltic *Perk\u016bnas, cognate with Sanskrit Parjanya, Old Norse Fj\u00f6rgyn (earth, mother of Thor), and ultimately PIE *perk\u02b7- (oak, thunder). Perk\u016bnas is the great storm deity who drives away Velnias (the chthonic serpentine deity), often depicted as Velnias hiding under trees, in cattle, in humans \u2014 and Perk\u016bnas shattering the hiding place with lightning. This Perk\u016bnas-vs.-Velnias myth is one of the best-attested Baltic mythological narratives, preserved in folk songs and converging with Vedic Indra-vs.-Vrtra and Slavic Perun-vs.-Veles. First attested as \"Percunis\" in the Livonian Rhymed Chronicle (c. 1290 CE). Gimbutas (1963) pp. 199-200; Greimas (1992) pp. 77-120."], [8, "ENT_CAN_LOTAN", "Lotan", "Canaanite/Ugaritic", "Monster", "chaos; sea; serpent; dragon", "Multi-headed sea serpent defeated by Baal."], [9, "ENT_CAN_YAM", "Yam", "Canaanite/Ugaritic", "Sea Deity", "sea; chaos; primordial waters", "Sea deity and opponent of Baal."], [10, "ENT_CEL_FOMORIANS", "Fomorians", "Celtic/Irish", "Adversarial Being", "chaos; sea; giants; opposition; monstrous powers", "Mythic adversarial beings opposed to the Tuatha D\u00e9 Danann."], [11, "ENT_SAINT_ANTHONY_ABBOT", "Anthony the Great", "Christian", "Saint", "desert; demons; asceticism; monasticism", "Desert father associated with asceticism and combat with demons."], [12, "ENT_CHR_ANTICHRIST", "Antichrist", "Christian", "Adversarial Being", "eschatology; deception; opposition to Christ", "Eschatological adversary opposed to Christ."], [13, "ENT_CHR_BEELZEBUL", "Beelzebul", "Christian", "Prince of demons", "demonic rule; possession", "Beelzebul, \"the prince of demons,\" named by Jesus' opponents and identified with Satan."], [14, "ENT_CHR_DEMONS", "Demons", "Christian", "Demonic Collective", "demons; possession; temptation; affliction", "General Christian demonic collective."], [15, "ENT_CHR_DEVIL", "Devil", "Christian", "Adversarial Being", "devil; adversary; temptation; evil", "Primary Christian adversarial figure."], [16, "ENT_CHRR_HELL", "Hell (Christian)", "Christian", "Cosmological realm", "The state and place of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God, of eternal punishment for the damned who die in mortal sin; the abode of the Devil and his demons, depicted by Dante as the nine descending circles of the Inferno.", "Christian eschatology (CCC 1033\u20131037). Distinct from Jewish Gehenna/Sheol (ENT_JM_GEHENNA, ENT_ISR_SHEOL), to which it is the conceptual heir."], [17, "ENT_CHR_ABADDON", "Abaddon", "Christian/Biblical", "Adversarial Being", "abyss; destruction; apocalypse", "Abyssal/destructive figure in biblical apocalyptic tradition."], [18, "ENT_CHR_APOLLYON", "Apollyon", "Christian/Biblical", "Adversarial Being", "destroyer; abyss; apocalypse", "Greek name/title associated with the destroyer of the abyss."], [19, "ENT_CHR_BEHEMOTH", "Behemoth", "Christian/Biblical", "Monster", "land monster; chaos; strength; eschatology", "Biblical land monster received in Christian tradition."], [20, "ENT_CHR_LEVIATHAN", "Leviathan", "Christian/Biblical", "Monster", "sea monster; chaos; serpent; dragon", "Biblical sea serpent/chaos monster received in Christian tradition."], [21, "ENT_DEMX_LOUDUN", "The Possession Demons of Aix / Loudun (Michaelis hierarchy)", "Christian demonology", "Adversarial collective", "demonic possession; exorcism", "Collective hub for the named possessing/expelled spirits enumerated in Sebastien Michaelis' Admirable History (Aix-en-Provence exorcisms of Madeleine de Demandolx, 1610-11), whose 'Pneumalogie' ranks the demons of the three angelic hierarchies. Attested only within this exorcism-treatise tradition."], [22, "ENT_DEMX_WITCH_FAMILIAR", "The Witch's Familiar (familiar spirit)", "Christian demonology", "Demonological classification", "witchcraft; demonic pact; animal-shaped attendant spirits (imps)", "Class hub for the low demonic attendant spirits ('imps'/familiars) in animal form (cat, toad, dog, etc.) said in early-modern English and continental witch-trial demonology (e.g. the Essex trials, Matthew Hopkins' Discovery of Witches, 1647) to be given by the Devil to suckle on the witch's mark and do her bidding. A class, not a single named being."], [23, "ENT_REC_HECATE_PATRISTIC", "Hecate (Patristic Reception)", "Christian reception", "Demonized Figure", "demons; magic; night; sorcery; spirits", "Greek goddess Hecate recast as a demon, queen of night-wandering spirits, or servant of Satan in patristic and early medieval Christian literature. Represents the demonization of the liminal, chthonic goddess."], [24, "ENT_CHR_LUCIFER", "Lucifer", "Christian reception", "Fallen Angel", "fall; pride; light-bearer; devil reception", "Later Christian reception figure associated with the fall of the devil."], [25, "ENT_VF_KEK", "Kek (meme-magic egregore)", "Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion", "internet meme-magic / chaos-magic egregore", "['chaos', 'chance', 'manifestation through memes', 'trolling']", "Documented sincere ritual engagement within a self-aware, half-ironic frame: 2016-era online communities consciously invoked 'Kek' as an egregore, posted 'GET'/dubs as his confirmations, and read coincidences as his signs (chaos-magic 'meme magic'). The syncretism is explicit and conscious \u2014 adherents deliberately identified the meme-god with the ancient Egyptian frog-/darkness-god Kek, hence the reception_of edge to ENT_EGY_KEK. Contested/emergent and partly ironic, so conf C."], [26, "ENT_VF_ZOZO", "Zozo", "Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion", "Urban legend", "Ouija-board demon; spirit-board dread; warding", "A malevolent entity said to manifest on the Ouija board, named when the planchette swings Z-O-Z-O. People engage it ritually (board contact) and apotropaically (refusing to play, closing the board, 'goodbye' protocols, prayer). C for emergent contested legend."], [27, "ENT_ABYSS", "Abyss", "Cross-traditional", "Cosmological Realm", "abyss; pit; deep; underworld; chaos depth", "Cross-traditional abstraction for abyss, pit, deep, or lower cosmic depth."], [28, "ENT_DRAGON", "Dragon", "Cross-traditional", "Monster", "dragon; serpent; chaos monster; monster combat", "Cross-traditional abstraction/category for dragon and serpent-monster figures."], [29, "ENT_EVIL", "Evil", "Cross-traditional", "Abstraction", "evil; wickedness; opposition; corruption", "Cross-traditional abstraction for evil and wickedness."], [30, "ENT_DIS_DISCORDIANISM", "Discordianism", "Discordianism", "Movement", "chaos; absurdism; parody religion; individualism", "Tradition-hub. Discordianism is an absurdist/parody religion founded 1958-63 by Greg Hill and Kerry Thornley and codified in the Principia Discordia; genuinely practiced worldwide (cabals, ordinations, the 'every man a Pope' ethos) and influential on chaos magic. Attested in the Principia Discordia and treated as a sincerely-held invented religion in Cusack 2010."], [31, "ENT_DIS_ERIS", "Eris (Discordian Goddess of Chaos)", "Discordianism", "Goddess", "chaos; discord; creative disorder", "The Discordian Eris/Discordia, central deity venerated by practicing Discordians as the benevolent Goddess of Chaos. An explicit modern reception of the ancient Greek Eris (ENT_ERIS); modeled neutrally as the sincerely-held object of Discordian devotion per the Principia Discordia. Homonym of, and reception_of, ENT_ERIS (Greek)."], [32, "ENT_DIS_GOLDEN_APPLE", "The Golden Apple of Discord (Discordian)", "Discordianism", "Relic", "discord; chaos; relic", "The golden apple inscribed 'kallisti' ('to the prettiest one'), revered in Discordian practice as Eris's defining relic and a sign of fruitful discord. A reception of the apple from the Greek Judgment of Paris myth, recontextualized in the Principia Discordia."], [33, "ENT_DIS_SACRED_CHAO", "The Sacred Chao", "Discordianism", "Symbol", "cosmology; order and chaos; symbol", "Core Discordian symbol (a yin-yang-like figure bearing the Apple of Discord and the Pentagon), used devotionally/ritually as the emblem of the interplay of order and disorder. Attested in the Principia Discordia."], [34, "ENT_EGY_AHA", "Aha", "Egyptian", "Apotropaic dwarf/lion protector", "household and birth protection; warding evil; combat with serpents", "Aha ('the Fighter'), a leonine-dwarf apotropaic deity depicted strangling serpents on Middle Kingdom 'magic wands', an early antecedent of Bes."], [35, "ENT_EGY_APEP", "Apep", "Egyptian", "Chaos Monster", "chaos; darkness; enemy of Ra; underworld", "Great serpent enemy of the solar god."], [36, "ENT_EGY_NAUNET", "Naunet", "Egyptian", "Primordial Deity", "primordial waters; chaos; creation", "Naunet (also Naunet, Nenet) is the female counterpart of Nun in the Hermopolis Ogdoad \u2014 the personification of the counter-heaven or the sky that corresponds to the primordial watery abyss below. In Egyptian cosmological thought, the universe is bounded above by a celestial counterpart to Nun's waters, and Naunet personifies this upper water-boundary. As a pair, Nun and Naunet represent the totality of the primordial undifferentiated water \u2014 below and above, the boundless abyss in all directions \u2014 before the moment of creation. Like all female members of the Ogdoad, Naunet is depicted with a serpent's head rather than a human head (while the male members have frog heads), a convention that expresses their connection to the primordial, pre-creation state. Naunet's role is almost entirely cosmological; she appears primarily in texts describing the Ogdoad's primordial state rather than in narratives involving her individually. The Coffin Texts attest to the Ogdoad's role in \"breathing life into the two Lands\" upon the first sunrise, with Naunet part of the generative watery principle. Wilkinson (2003) pp. 100-101."], [37, "ENT_EGY_NUN", "Nun", "Egyptian", "Primordial Deity", "primordial waters; chaos; creation", "Nun (also Nu) is the primordial watery abyss of Egyptian cosmology \u2014 the boundless, dark, chaotic expanse of inert water that existed before creation. He is the foundational element of the Hermopolitan Ogdoad cosmological system (khmun, \"City of the Eight\"), the oldest Egyptian cosmogony, in which creation occurs when the Ogdoad's forces stir the primordial waters and the primordial mound (benben) rises from them, upon which the creator deity (Ra-Atum or Thoth, depending on the tradition) comes into being. Nun is not destroyed by creation but persists as the waters surrounding the known world and beneath the earth \u2014 the source of the Nile's annual inundation and of the sun's journey through the underworld. The Pyramid Texts (c. 2400\u20132300 BCE) are the earliest attestation: \"O Atum, when you came into being you rose up on the high ground, you rose up as the bnbn stone in the Mansion of the Phoenix in Heliopolis\" \u2014 with Atum emerging from Nun. Nun is gendered male and paired with Naunet (female counterpart, the watery sky above) as the first of the four Ogdoad pairs. His conceptual parallel in Mesopotamian cosmogony is Apsu (the primordial male freshwater abyss of the Enuma Elish) and Nammu (the Sumerian primordial sea-goddess from whom creation emerged). In temple iconography Nun is sometimes depicted as a man holding up the solar barque, symbolizing the moment creation emerged from the primordial waters. Wilkinson (2003) pp. 100-101; Pinch (2002) pp. 167-168."], [38, "ENT_EGY_SETH", "Seth", "Egyptian", "Storm Deity", "desert; storms; chaos; violence", "Complex god associated with desert, storm, and disorder."], [39, "ENT_EGY_TUTU_TITHOES", "Tutu (Tithoes)", "Egyptian", "Master of demons", "protection; mastery over hostile demons", "An apotropaic sphinx god, \"master of demons\" and son of Neith, who commands the wandering demons and protects against them; temple at Kellis (Dakhla). Greek Tithoes. (Distinct from the assessor Tutu of BD 125.)"], [40, "ENT_ETR_TUCHULCHA", "Tuchulcha", "Etruscan", "Adversarial Being", "underworld terror; punishment; chaos; serpent hair; demonic attendant", "Underworld daimon with vulture beak, donkey ears, and serpents; attested in the Tomba dell'Orco at Tarquinia (4th c. BCE) alongside Charun. Uniquely Etruscan with no Greek counterpart. A terror figure whose presence in tomb frescoes reflects the Etruscan conception of death as a violent, coerced journey."], [41, "ENT_FINN_LOUHI", "Louhi", "Finnish", "Adversarial Being", "magic; shamanism; the North; Pohjola; cold; shape-shifting; obstruction", "Mistress of Pohjola (the Far North, \"the place of darkness\"); the primary antagonist of the Kalevala. Louhi is a powerful shamanistic figure \u2014 \"the gap-toothed crone of Pohjola\" in L\u00f6nnrot's text \u2014 who controls the resources of the North and drives the Kalevala's main plot conflicts. V\u00e4in\u00e4m\u00f6inen and Ilmarinen must negotiate with her for brides and for the Sampo (a magical mill that generates wealth); she demands the construction of the Sampo as bride-price (Runos 5-8, 10-11). When the heroes steal the Sampo back, Louhi pursues them as a great eagle-hawk and destroys the Sampo in the conflict (Runos 42-49). She can also spread plague and disease, and she steals the sun and moon, locking them in the mountain of Pohjola (Runo 47-49). Louhi is not a simple evil figure \u2014 she is a legitimate authority in her own domain, a mother protecting her daughters, and a formidable equal to V\u00e4in\u00e4m\u00f6inen in magical power. As an adversarial shamanistic ruler she represents the hostile wilderness north of the Finnish homeland. Pentik\u00e4inen (1999) pp. 220-260."], [42, "ENT_NOR_FENRIR", "Fenrir", "Germanic/Norse", "Monster", "wolf; chaos; binding; eschatology", "Monstrous wolf bound until Ragnar\u00f6k."], [43, "ENT_NOR_JOTNAR", "J\u00f6tnar", "Germanic/Norse", "Giant", "giants; wilderness; chaos; primordial powers", "Giant/otherworldly beings often opposed to gods but also ancestrally linked."], [44, "ENT_PS_ADAMAS_TYRANT", "Adamas the Tyrant", "Gnostic", "Adversarial being", null, "Adamas the Tyrant, a chief archon who with his rulers oppresses Pistis Sophia in the Chaos in the Askew Codex. Distinct from the Sethian heavenly Adamas (ENT_SET_ADAMAS), with whom he shares only a name."], [45, "ENT_PS_AUTHADES", "Authades", "Gnostic", "Adversarial being", null, "Authades (\"the Arrogant\" / Self-willed), the proud power of the Thirteenth Aeon who, envying Pistis Sophia, lures her down with a false light and torments her in the Chaos through his lion-faced emanation."], [46, "ENT_PS_LION_FACED", "Lion-faced Power", "Gnostic", "Adversarial being", null, "The lion-faced power, the emanation of Authades disguised as light, by which Pistis Sophia is deceived and afflicted in the Chaos."], [47, "ENT_TYPHON", "Typhon", "Greek", "Adversarial Being", "chaos; storm; serpent; typhoon; adversary of Zeus; monster father", "Last great monster of the pre-Olympian age; son of Gaia (and Tartaros); created to challenge Zeus after the defeat of the Titans; defeated by Zeus's thunderbolts and buried under Etna; Hesiod Theogony 820-880; parallel to the Hurrian Ullikummi and Hittite Illuyanka as a chaos monster challenging the storm god champion"], [48, "ENT_HTT_ILLUYANKA", "Illuyanka", "Hittite", "Adversarial Being", "chaos serpent; storm opponent; primordial dragon; Illuyanka myth", "Serpent/dragon defeated by the Hittite storm god Tarhunna in the Illuyanka myth; Tarhunna initially loses but ultimately defeats the serpent with the help of the mortal Hupasiya and the goddess Inaras; structural parallel to Zeus/Typhon and Apollo/Python in the \"storm god defeats chaos serpent\" combat myth tradition"], [49, "ENT_HTT_ULLIKUMMI", "Ullikummi", "Hittite/Hurrian", "Adversarial Being", "chaos monster; stone giant; adversary of Teshub; Ullikummi Song", "Stone/diorite monster created by Kumarbi from the shoulder of Ubelluri to fight his son Teshub after losing power; grows to threaten heaven; eventually defeated when the gods cut its feet with an ancient tool; the paradigm parallel for Typhon as a monster created by the defeated predecessor to challenge the storm god champion"], [50, "ENT_HUN_ORDOG", "\u00d6rd\u00f6g", "Hungarian", "Deity", "the underworld; evil; adversary", "The adversary and spirit of the underworld and evil in Magyar belief, the dark counterpart to Isten, later identified with the Christian Devil."], [51, "ENT_ISL_DIV", "Div", "Islamic", "Adversarial being", "malevolence; monstrous strength; opposition to heroes", "The div (Persian dev), a malevolent demonic being of Persianate Islamic and pre-Islamic Iranian tradition (cf. the Avestan daeva), assimilated to the jinn in Islamic-era folklore and prominent in epics such as the Shahnameh."], [52, "ENT_ISL_GHUL", "Ghul", "Islamic", "Adversarial being", "shape-shifting; desert; deception; devouring travellers", "The ghul (English 'ghoul'), a shape-shifting desert demon of pre-Islamic Arabian and classical Islamic lore that lures and devours lone travellers, classed among the jinn but of marginal, debated status in orthodox cosmology."], [53, "ENT_ISL_IBLIS", "Iblis", "Islamic", "Adversarial Being", "rebellion; temptation; pride", "Primary adversarial figure in Islam."], [54, "ENT_ISL_SHAYATIN", "Shayatin", "Islamic", "Adversarial Being", "temptation; deception; demonic influence", "Demonic or adversarial spirits."], [55, "ENT_ISL_SHAYTAN", "Shaytan / Shayatin", "Islamic", "Adversarial being", "temptation; rebellion; whispering (waswasa); deception", "The shayatin are the devils, the rebellious and tempting class of evil spirits led by Iblis; the Qur'an repeatedly names al-shaytan as humanity's open enemy who whispers temptation."], [56, "ENT_ISL_SILAT", "Si'lat", "Islamic", "Adversarial being", "cunning; seduction; shape-shifting; female jinn", "The si'lat (or si'la), a cunning, often female class of jinn in classical Arabian lore, sometimes paired with or distinguished from the ghul; sparsely and inconsistently described."], [57, "ENT_ISR_BEHEMOTH", "Behemoth", "Israelite/Second Temple", "Monster", "land monster; chaos; eschatological beast", "Great land beast in biblical/apocalyptic tradition."], [58, "ENT_ISR_BELIAL", "Belial", "Israelite/Second Temple", "Adversarial Being", "wickedness; opposition; demonic leadership", "Adversarial figure associated with wickedness and opposition."], [59, "ENT_ISR_LEVIATHAN", "Leviathan", "Israelite/Second Temple", "Monster", "sea monster; chaos; serpent; dragon", "Chaos sea monster/serpent with Northwest Semitic roots."], [60, "ENT_ISR_MASTEMA", "Mastema", "Israelite/Second Temple", "Adversarial Being", "hostility; testing; demonic accusation", "Adversarial figure in Jubilees and related traditions."], [61, "ENT_ISR_NEPHILIM", "Nephilim", "Israelite/Second Temple", "Adversarial Being", "giants; hybrid corruption; primordial violence; antediluvian era; flood catalyst; forbidden offspring", "The Nephilim (\"fallen ones\" or \"those who cause others to fall\" \u2014 etymology debated; possibly from Aramaic npl \"to fall\") are the giant hybrid offspring born of the union between the Watchers (Bene Elohim, \"Sons of God\") and human women as described in Genesis 6:1-4: \"The Nephilim were on the earth in those days \u2014 and also afterward \u2014 when the sons of God went in to the daughters of humans, who bore children to them. These were the heroes of old, warriors of renown.\" The Enochic tradition (1 Enoch 6-7) expands this genealogy: the 200 Watchers, led by Shemihazah, descended on Mount Hermon and took human wives; their offspring were giants 3,000 ells tall who \"consumed all the acquisitions of men\" and turned against humanity, devouring \"birds, beasts, reptiles, and fish\" and finally \"began to eat human flesh\" and \"drink the blood\" (1 Enoch 7:2-5). The Nephilim's violence and corruption is the proximate cause of God's decision to send the Flood. In Numbers 13:33, the Israelite spies report that the Anakim of Canaan are \"of Nephilim descent\" \u2014 establishing the Nephilim as a continuing category of terrifying giant-warriors in the Israelite imagination. In the Enochic cosmological system, the Nephilim's disembodied spirits become the evil spirits (shedim/demons) that afflict humanity after the Flood (1 Enoch 15:8-12): \"The spirits of the giants shall be like clouds, which shall oppress, corrupt, fall, contend, and bruise upon earth.\" This makes the Nephilim the progenitors of demonology in Second Temple thought \u2014 their disembodied spirits become the demons of the post-Flood world. Jubilees 5:1-10; 4Q531 (Book of Giants). Collins (2016) pp. 67-72; Nickelsburg (2001) pp. 191-211."], [62, "ENT_STJ_SARAH_OF_TOBIT", "Sarah (of Tobit)", "Israelite/Second Temple", "Deuterocanonical figure", "deliverance from the demon, marriage", "Daughter of Raguel, tormented by the demon Asmodeus until freed and married to Tobias through Raphael's aid (Book of Tobit, NRSV Apocrypha). Homonym distinct from the matriarch Sarah (ENT_ISR_SARAH)."], [63, "ENT_ISR_SATAN", "Satan", "Israelite/Second Temple", "Adversarial Being", "adversary; accusation; testing; opposition", "Adversarial or accusatory figure in biblical and Second Temple traditions."], [64, "ENT_ISR_SOLOMON", "Solomon", "Israelite/Second Temple", "Human Figure", "king; wisdom; temple; demon command; Solomonic tradition", "Israelite king; son of David; builder of the First Temple in Jerusalem (1 Kings 5-8); paradigm of divine wisdom in the Hebrew Bible (1 Kings 3:5-12; wisdom greater than all others, 1 Kings 4:30-31); traditional author of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs; his reign (c. 970-930 BCE) is the peak of the United Monarchy; his foreign wives and their cults (1 Kings 11) lead to the prophetic critique of syncretism; later tradition attributes to him power over spirits and demons (Testament of Solomon, c. 1st-3rd c. CE; Islamic Sulayman who commands jinn per Quran 27:17-44) \u2014 making his name the seed of the entire Western Solomonic magic tradition"], [65, "ENT_JM_AGRAT", "Agrat bat Mahlat", "Jewish Mystical", "Demon queen", "the night; the dancing-demons of the air", "A queen of demons who rides the night air with myriads of destroying spirits."], [66, "ENT_JM_ESTRIE", "Estrie", "Jewish Mystical", "Adversarial being", "blood-drinking; shape-shifting; night; harm to infants", "A shape-shifting, blood-drinking female demon of medieval (esp. Franco-German) Jewish folklore, attested chiefly in Sefer Hasidim; the name likely derives from the Latin strix/strigae and the figure is sparsely documented."], [67, "ENT_JM_LILITH", "Lilith", "Jewish Mystical", "Adversarial Being", "demoness; night; infant death; Adam's first wife; sexual danger; Sheol", "Female demon; first attested as \"lilit\" in Isaiah 34:14 (night creature of the desolation). The Babylonian Talmud (Eruvin 100b) describes a nocturnal spirit with wings who harms men sleeping alone. The Alphabet of Ben Sira (9th\u201311th c. CE) develops the narrative of Lilith as Adam's first wife who refused to lie beneath him, spoke the ineffable name, and flew to the Red Sea to consort with demons. In Kabbalistic literature (Zohar, Zohar Chadash) Lilith becomes the consort of Samael, queen of the demonic realm, and the dark counterpart of the Shekhinah \u2014 embodying the \"left side\" of the divine feminine."], [68, "ENT_JM_SITRA_ACHRA", "Sitra Achra", "Jewish Mystical", "The Other Side", "the realm of evil opposed to holiness", "The Sitra Achra (\"the Other Side\"), the realm of impurity and evil, ruled by Samael and Lilith."], [69, "ENT_LAT_ABEZETHIBOU", "Abezithibod", "Late Antique Ritual", "Demon", "Red Sea; hardening Pharaoh; Moses opposition; Iannes and Iambres; demonic opposition", null], [70, "ENT_LAT_DECAN_AGCHONION", "Agchonion", "Late Antique Ritual", "Disease Demon", "swaddling clothes; precipice; infant danger; decan demon", null], [71, "ENT_LAT_DECAN_AKTON", "Akton", "Late Antique Ritual", "Disease Demon", "ribs; lumbar muscles; bodily affliction; decan demon", null], [72, "ENT_LAT_DECAN_ALATH", "Alath", "Late Antique Ritual", "Disease Demon", "coughing; hard breathing; children; decan demon", null], [73, "ENT_LAT_DECAN_ALLEBORITH", "Alleborith", "Late Antique Ritual", "Disease Demon", "fish bone; choking; swallowed bone; decan demon", null], [74, "ENT_LAT_ANAEL", "Anael", "Late Antique Ritual", "Angelic Being", "Venus; angelic mediation; anti-demonic authority; planetary governance", null], [75, "ENT_LAT_DECAN_ANATRETH", "Anatreth", "Late Antique Ritual", "Disease Demon", "burning; fever; entrails; decan demon", null], [76, "ENT_LAT_DECAN_ANOSTER", "Anoster", "Late Antique Ritual", "Disease Demon", "uterine mania; bladder pain; decan demon", null], [77, "ENT_LAT_DECAN_ARTOSAEL", "Artosael", "Late Antique Ritual", "Disease Demon", "eye affliction; bodily harm; decan demon", null], [78, "ENT_LAT_ASMODEUS", "Asmodeus", "Late Antique Ritual", "Demon", "desire; wrath; obstruction; demonic king", "Demonic figure who kills the seven husbands of Sarah (Tobit 3:8); bound in Egypt by the angel Raphael using fish-liver smoke (Tobit 8:3). Name derives from Avestan Aeshma Daeva. 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