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v_public_adversarial_beings: 64

Demons, adversarial figures, and hostile entities across traditions.

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rowid entity_id canonical_name tradition category primary_domains short_note
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) — making his name the seed of the entire Western Solomonic magic tradition
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