Demon (spirit)

Primitive civilizations

In the old beliefs, the demons are “malignant” spirits, i.e. which act with malignity, with an aim of harming. They are obscure forces, secret and personified powers that the iconography in general represents in a way most immediately comprehensible by popular imagination in a given culture.

Mesopotamy

The almost infinite variety of the demons in Mésopotamie is with the measurement of the imaginary room. The démoniaques creatures, agents or simple vectors of the Evil were often created by the gods, even result from them, in particular An couple (Sky) and Ki (Earth), which underlines their proximity with the elementary forces. Some are halfway between the geniuses malfaisants and of true divinities like Lamastu, girl of Anu, Pazuzu, wire of the infernal god Hanbu, Sulak or Namtar, another divine character of the Hells, wire of Enlil. Initially conceived like the executors of the punishments issued by the gods, who often appear by physical attacks, the demons become at the 1st millenium of the practically autonomous malefic entities emanating from the infernal world where they seek to involve their victims. The " possession démoniaque" involve physical and moral evils which exclude from the human society those which are reached by it. The demons touch their victim by contact or true a " saisie" and are often evoked in the shape of a breath or a venom; they invisible but are sometimes surrounded by a halation. Their body is dirty, impure and spreads bad smells. They slip without being seen in the dwellings and almost no material obstacle can stop them. All the demons see them capacity harmful particularly reinforced in the places and the moments the least best controlled by the man: desert, ruins, places obscure in general, night. Thus the demon allulaya, the courtilière, attacks on the road the night traveller. Certain demons are equipped with a true personality, but the majority are rather generic designations and work by group of seven (heptade).

Antiquity

The demons such as they appear in the Greek literature since Hésiode are intermediate beings between the man and the divinity, sometimes personifying the virtues morals, sometimes the forces of the Nature. They help the God X to organize the world and to make respect the moral Ordre. The word as well serves to indicate the being responsible for the destiny as an human being, as the specific genius of a city, a place, or a family. It corresponds to the genius of Latin. Thus, Socrate, according to '' the Banquet '' of Plato, considered being inspired by a particular demon.

Christianity

The Ecclésiastique S gave him the Sens fallen angel, of spirit of the evil or Diable.

Finally, there is hardly difference between the “Daïmon” of an individual and its guardian Ange. The Gnostique S distinguished two categories of demons: agatho-demons, of the beneficial spirits, and caco-demons, the spirits malfaisants. For certain gnostic and Kabbaliste S each man would have even a good and a bad demon which would accompany it during all its existence.

The Christianisme ancient and medieval presents them like invisible, but certain men of the church and Saint S are supposed to have seen some (Coming Saint, Guibert de Nogent, Raoul Glaber), or to have fought with them (the Curé saint of Ars). Councils, like that of Braga, treated demons. Their prince is Belzébuth, lieutenant of Satan, sometimes represented in the iconography by artists with various alarming attributes: crown fire, wings of Chauve-souris, horns, legs of Bouc and tail of Lion.

According to “, myth of the Fall of the rebellious angels,”, the demons pass to be the rebellious angels , that is to say the formerly celestial creatures which were partisanes of Lucifer during the fight of this last against its counterpart Saint Michel - fight at the conclusion which Lucifer and its angels were overcome and fell in hell. In catholic theology, the demons above all the spirits are made by God to be angels, but which were diverted of their Creator following Lucifer (the carrier of light), to undoubtedly become them-even object of worship.

A “science” relates to them: the Démonologie, which holds place of infernal equivalent of the Angéologie. But the demonology claims to widen its field of study to the universe of “cursed” sciences, occult.

Démoniaque mythology

Categories of demons

Certain mythologies establish distinctions between various kinds of demons.

Christian mythology

the succubes are demons females coming to allure the men in their sleep to link itself charnellement with them. According to the Cabal, Lilith was their queen; first woman of Adam, it is supposed to have had children of him, although being supposed to have refused the sexual relations classified by the " term; position of the missionnaire". She had around her 180.000 succubes.
the incubate are male demons coming to allure the women in their sleep to link itself charnellement with them. Merlin was, according to a Christian legend, wire of the Devil.
the princes of the hell are the higher demons, the Diable S . There are four:

Satan represents the opposition to God. He is symbolized by fire and the south.
Lucifer (“carrying light”, in Latin) represents the desire of knowledge. It is symbolized by the air, the star of the morning and is.
Bélial (“lord of the wind”, in Hebrew), represents independence. It is symbolized by the ground and north.
Léviathan is the snake depths. It is symbolized by water and the west.

Names of demons

Various human civilizations often allotted names to their demons. The majority were at the origin of the God X , in particular those whose role referred to the fruitfulness or the wisdom, which were regarded thereafter as Diable S .

Starting with has

Abaddon - (Hebrew) the destructor.
Abrahel - Succube describes by Nicolas Rémy
Adramelech - Demon sumérien.
Aguares - Gives dignities teaches all the languages, makes dance the spirits of the ground
Ahpuck - Maya Demon.
Ahriman - Demon mazdéen.
Alastor - Large infernal torturer.
Alocer - Sign secrecies of astronomy and the liberal arts.
Amduscias - When it is ordered to him, Amduscias gives concerts “but one hears, without nothing to see, the sound of the trumpets and other musical instruments”.
Amon - Egyptian God, of the life and the reproduction.
Apollyon - Synonymous Greek for Satan, the demon of the vaults.
Asmodée - Demon Hebrew of the Sensuality and the Lust, in the beginning “creature of judgment”. Superintendent of the Hells, of the Houses of play, Asmodée sows dissipation and error. Some make of it the old snake which allured Eve. Asmodée learns how to the men to be made invisible, their sign the geometry, the arithmetic one, astronomy and the mechanical arts. He knows the hidden treasures.
Astaroth - Goddess phenician of the Lasciviousness, equivalent of the Ishtar Babylonian.
Assur - God Semitic adored by the Assyrians (from where their name).
Azazel - (Hebrew) Man who preserved the weapons of war

Starting with B

Baalberith - Lord ( Baal , lord) Cananéen of justice and the equitable treaties.
Bahamut - In Arab mythology, Bahamut is a fish (or snake according to the versions) giant, surmounted of a bull
Baël - It controls the oriental party. It gives the trick to those which call upon it and learns how to them to be invisible.
Balaam - Demon Hebrew of avarice and cupidity.
Baphomet - God of the fertility and fruitfulness (male primarily), allegedly adored by the templier S. (charge carried by those which wanted the end of Templiers).
Barbatos - Demon of the underwoods and the small forests… Is called upon it to know the future.
Bast - (Bastet) Egyptian Goddess of the pleasures and the fruitfulness, represented by the cat.
Bélial - demon adulated in the town of Sodom, it was locked up with its legions in a bottle by king Solomon, He is also the owner of the Incubes (demon masculines of an incomparable beauty and which attract the mortal and consume their hearts at the time of the sin of flesh). He reigns on the East. This king of the Hell, to the appearance alluring and the gracious maintenance, passes for the “Spirit the more dissolu, most villainous, most vicious”. He was created just after Lucifer and pushed the majority of the angels to the revolt. He gets dignities and favors, made live them but in good intelligence, gives skilful servants and helps those which are subjected to him.

Belphégor - Demon of discovered and the inventions. It often takes a body of young woman and distributes richnesses. This demon with always the open mouth.
Belzébuth - (Hebrew, beel lord) Lord of the Flies, with for symbol the beetle.
Béhémoth - Personification Hebraic of Satan in the form of an elephant. It controls the greediness and the pleasures of expensive. Heavy and stupid demon, it is with the hells large wine waiter and Royal Cupbearer.
Beherit - Syrian Name for Satan.
Bile - God Celtic of the hells.
Bartiméus
Byleth - Particularly mad and disobeying, it intervenes in exorcisms. That which manages to subject it will acquerra a great power.

Starting with C

Chemosh - (Semous) Moabites God represented by a monkey.
Cimeries - Overlaps a black horse, god governing Africa.
Curson - or Pursan This demon knows perfectly the present, the past and the future; he discovers the hidden things, like the treasures.
Coyote - Demon no right in hell, driven out to find itself to wander between the world of dead and the alive ones.

Starting with D

Dagon - Philistine Demon of revenge and the sea.
Damballa - God snake Voodoo.
Demogorgon - Greek Name of the devil.
Diabolus - (Greek) Signifie “runs to the bottom” .autrement called devil, it is the emperor of the most powerful hell and of the 4 Princes of the hells
Dracula - ( Drak , lord, dragon): nickname given to the lord Vlad Tepes.

Starting with E

Emma-O - Sovereign Japanese of the hell.
Euronymous - Greek Prince of death.
Eurynome - Prince of died for some, has the large and long teeth, “an appalling body very filled of wounds, and for clothing a skin of fox.
Eris - Greek Goddess of Chaos
Erlik - guard of the hells at Mongolian the
Ersulie - female Spirits found in the Voodoo. They bring the chance has those which call upon them

Starting with F

Fenrir - (Norrois) Wolf wire of the Loki god, who devoured the hand of Tyr and which will take part in the Ragnarök, the twilight of the gods.

Starting with G

Gorgo - Abbreviation, of Demogorgon.

Starting with H

Haborym - Synonymous Hebrew for Satan.
Hécate - Greek Goddess of sorcery and the evil spells.
Hel (Hela) - Scandinavian Goddess of the hell. (its name gave to the English word hell and the town of Helsinki)
Hadès gods of the hells in Greece

Starting with I

Iblis - Djinn deposed which refused prosterner in front of Adam among Moslems

Starting with K

Kali - (Hindu) Girl of Shiva, high priestess of Thuggees.

Starting with L

Léviathan - marine demon king of the oceans, it is one of the 4 Princes of the hells. He is the large liar responsible for many possessions.
Lilith or Lilitu - Hebraic Demon female, first woman of Adam. She was condemned by god has to give birth to in the suffering after she have betrays Adam with a demon, she is the owner of the Succubes (female demon which devours the heart of the mortal at the time of the sin of flesh)
Loki - Scandinavian God, one of the Adzes wire of Odin
Lucifer - the Porteur Light Ange preferred of god among all before her fall, he is one of the 4 Princes of the hells. Lucifer which passes to be more powerful still than SATAN. He is the large dispenser of justice of the hell. When it is called upon, it appears in the shape of a beautiful child. He plays of the turns.
Lucifugous or Lucifugous Rofocal - Hebraic Demon.

Starting with M

Malphas - President of the hells
Mammon - God araméen of the richness and the profit.
Handled - Etruscan Goddess of the hell.
Mantus - God Etruscan of the hell.
Marduk - God of the town of Babylon.
Mastema - Synonymous Hebrew for Satan.
Méphistophélès - (Greek) That which flees the light. Demon in Faust. It calumny and fight against the virtues; it passes to be most frightening, after Satan. Leader of the Hell.
Metztli - Goddess Aztec of the night.
Mictian - God Aztec of death.
Milcom - Devil Ammonite.
Moloch - Demon phenician and Canaanite.
Mormo - (Greek) King of Goules, consort of Hécate.

Starting with NR

Naamah - Hebraic Demon female of the seduction.
Nergal - Babylonian God of Hadès.
Nihasa - Amerindian Demon.
Nija - Polish God of the underground world.

Starting with O

O-Yama - Japanese Name for Satan.

Starting with P

Side - Greek God of the lust.
Paymon - order with two hundred legions; when it appears to the exorcists, it is in the shape of a man overlapping a dromedary, crowned of a étincelant diadem of precious stones with a face of woman.
Pluto (Hadès) - Greek God of the underground world.
Pursan - or Curson This demon knows perfectly the present, the past and the future; he discovers the hidden things, like the treasures.
Pwcca - Welsh Name for Satan.

Starting with R

Rimmon - Syrian Demon adored in Damas.
Rukkia - Prince of the evil reigning on the hell.

Starting with S

Sabazios - Phrygian God of the festivals and the pleasure.
Sammael - (Hebrew) “venom of God”.
Satan - very powerful demon which involved in its fall good number of angels, it is one of the 4 Princes of the hells.
Samnu - Demon of Central Asia.
Sedit - Amerindian Demon.
Sekhmet - Egyptian Goddess of revenge.
Seth - Egyptian God.
Shaitan - Name Arab for Satan.
Shiva - (Hindu) the destructor.
Supay - INCA God of the underground world.

Starting with T

You year-Mo - Chinese Counterpart of the devil.
Tchort - Name Russian for Satan, “black god”.
Tezcatlipoca - God Aztec of the hells.
Thamuz - God sumérien.
Thoth - Egyptian God of wisdom.
Tunrida - Scandinavian Demon female.
Typhoon - Greek Personification of Satan.

Starting with V

Valefor - infernal Duke of the robbers
Vapula -
Vassago - Prince of the Hells reigning on 26 legions of demons

Starting with Y

Yaotzin - God Aztec of the hell.
Yen-lo-wang - Sovereign Chinese of the hell.

Starting with Z

Zapan - According to the versions, the Hell would be directed, inter alia, by 4 or 7 cardinals, of which Zapan would form part.
Zillah - Child of Caïn, it was its first love.

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