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-# Project: PDF research library → markdown for Claude-assisted synthesis
-
-  ## Goal
-  I'm building a local, git-tracked research workflow. I have folders of **text PDFs**
-  (real text layer, not scans) grouped by topic. I want to convert them to markdown so
-  that you (Claude Code) can read the actual files and answer cross-reference / synthesis
-  questions across a topic — instead of using a RAG tool with a small local model, which
-  gave shallow results.
-
-  Treat this repo as code. Everything goes in git.
-
-  ## Tooling decision (already made — don't re-litigate unless something breaks)
-  - **Primary converter: `pymupdf4llm`** — pip install, no ML deps, fast, LLM-oriented
-    markdown (keeps headings/lists/tables, can mark page boundaries). Best fit for clean
-    text PDFs.
-  - Fallbacks if needed:
-    - `markitdown` (Microsoft) — if I also need DOCX/PPTX/XLSX/HTML → md.
-    - `marker` or `docling` — heavier, ML/GPU, **also OCR scanned PDFs** and handle messy
-      layouts/tables better. Use only for PDFs that pymupdf4llm handles poorly or that
-      turn out to be scans (no text layer).
-
-  ## What I want you to build
-  1. A small **batch converter** (`convert.py` or similar):
-     - Input: a source dir of PDFs (recursing into topic subfolders).
-     - Output: mirrored `.md` files under an output dir, preserving the topic folder
-  structure.
-     - **Idempotent**: skip a PDF if its `.md` already exists and is newer than the PDF.
-     - **Detect no-text-layer PDFs** (pymupdf4llm yields little/no text) and log them to a
-       `needs-ocr.txt` list instead of writing empty markdown — those need the marker/OCR
-  path.
-     - Print a summary: converted / skipped / flagged-for-ocr counts.
-  2. A `requirements.txt` pinning `pymupdf4llm` (and a venv setup note in the README).
-  3. A short `README.md` documenting the workflow and folder layout.
-
-  ## Suggested repo layout (adjust to what you find)
-  ```
-  research-library/
-    pdfs/<topic>/*.pdf        # source (consider git-lfs or .gitignore if large)
-    md/<topic>/*.md           # converted markdown — the stuff you'll read
-    convert.py
-    requirements.txt
-    needs-ocr.txt             # generated
-    README.md
-  ```
-  Recommend whether to commit the source PDFs (size?), git-lfs them, or gitignore them and
-  commit only the markdown. Ask me if it's a judgment call on size.
-
-  ## How I'll use it afterward
-  Per topic, I'll ask you things like: "Read everything under `md/<topic>/` and
-  cross-reference the documents to produce <specific outcome>, then save the result as a
-  markdown file in that folder." So optimize the markdown for *you* reading whole files,
-  not for chunked retrieval.
-
-  ## First steps for you
-  1. Look at the current folder/repo state and tell me what's here.
-  2. Confirm/adjust the layout above.
-  3. Write `convert.py`, `requirements.txt`, `README.md`.
-  4. Run a conversion pass and report the summary + anything flagged in `needs-ocr.txt`.
-
-  That'll get the desktop session productive immediately. When you're ready to actually do
-  synthesis, just point it at md/<topic>/ and ask — that's the part jarvis was failing at, and
-  it's exactly what reading-whole-files is good for.

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+# A Ranked Demonology — Cross-Referenced Hierarchy
+
+*A synthesis across the six sources in `md/demonology/`. Organized by the
+**classical grimoire ranks** (King, Duke, Prince, Marquis, Earl, President,
+Knight) as used in the *Ars Goetia* / *Pseudomonarchia Daemonum*.*
+
+**Scope rule:** only entities that **recur across two or more** of the six
+source documents are included. Hundreds of one-off names (the bulk of the
+*Field Guide*'s world-folklore catalog and the rank-and-file of the Goetia 72)
+are deliberately excluded; each entry below is attested in at least two books.
+
+**Per-entry fields:** rank & domain · signs / identification · origins & aliases
+· source citations.
+
+## Source key
+
+| Tag | Source | Character |
+|-----|--------|-----------|
+| `[FG]` | *A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels…* (Mack & Mack) | Global folklore catalog, by habitat |
+| `[DM]` | *Dark Mirrors: Azazel and Satanael in Early Jewish Demonology* (Orlov) | Enochic / Second-Temple, Watcher myth |
+| `[PU]` | *Personal or Impersonal: Karl Barth & Merrill Unger…* | Theology; treats the demonic as personal vs. "nothingness" |
+| `[SP]` | *Spiritism and the Fallen Angels…* | Protestant polemic; demons behind mediumship/idolatry |
+| `[DJ]` | *Daemonologie* (King James I) + *News from Scotland* | Witch-hunt theology; **rejects** the grimoire hierarchy as a fraud |
+| `[EN]` | *The Encyclopedia of Demons and Demonology* (Guiley) | Reference; full Goetia 72, seven princes, Watchers, Testament of Solomon |
+
+---
+
+## A note on "rank" before the ladder
+
+There is **no single demonic hierarchy** in these sources — there are competing
+schemes that the tradition never reconciled:
+
+- **The grimoire ranks** (King, Duke, Prince, Marquis, Earl, President, Knight,
+  + *legions* commanded) — almost entirely from `[EN]`'s *Ars Goetia*. This is
+  the ladder this document uses.
+- **The seven Princes of Hell** tied to the seven deadly sins (`[EN]`) — Lucifer/
+  Pride, Satan/Anger, Beelzebub/Gluttony, Mammon/Avarice, Leviathan/Envy,
+  Belphegor/Sloth, Asmodeus/Lust.
+- **The four directional Kings** who command the 72 (`[DJ]` and `[EN]`): Amaymon
+  (East), Corson (West), Zimimar (North), Gaap (South).
+- **The Enochic Watcher chiefs** — a separate, older "chief-of-tens" command
+  structure (`[DM]`, `[EN]`, `[SP]`).
+
+**King James `[DJ]` names the grimoire ranks only to deny them**: he insists
+Satan, Beelzebub and Lucifer are merely "diverse names" for one prince, and that
+the elaborate hierarchy of Kings and Presidents is a deception the Devil feeds
+to magicians (Bk III Ch V). Treat the ladder below as *one tradition's
+cosmology*, faithfully reported — not a fact the sources agree on.
+
+---
+
+## I. The Supreme Tier — Emperors, the Devil, and the Seven Princes
+
+The demons every source returns to. At this altitude "rank" is honorific and the
+names blur together by alias.
+
+### Satan / the Devil
+- **Rank & domain:** Head of all demons; "Prince of Darkness," "prince of the
+  power of the air," "the god of this world." Sin = **Anger**; archdemon of
+  Kether. Tempter, accuser, ruler of Hell, holder of "the power of death."
+  *The one figure in all six books.*
+- **Signs / identification:** The dragon/serpent of Revelation 12; disguises as
+  "an angel of light" (2 Cor 11:14); a shape-shifter — luminous angel, serpent,
+  wild beast `[DM]`. To witches he appears as a man in black, or a voice; cold to
+  the touch; marks his servants with the Devil's mark `[DJ]`. Walks "as a roaring
+  lion" `[SP]`.
+- **Origins & aliases:** Originally an exalted cherub fallen through pride
+  (Isa 14 / Ezek 28) `[SP]`. Aliases: the Devil, Lucifer, Sammael, Satanael, the
+  dragon, Apollyon, Beelzebub, Belial, the Adversary, Diabolos, the Deceiver,
+  Iblis. `[DJ]` insists Satan = Beelzebub = Lucifer (mere "diverse names").
+- **Citations:** `[DM]` "Satan and the Visionary" pp. 107–112; `[PU]` §1.3
+  "Satanology"; `[SP]` Ch. III "Satan—Or Spiritism at its Source" pp. 27–38;
+  `[DJ]` Bk III Ch V (~p. 175); `[EN]` "Satan" ~21423; `[FG]` PSYCHE.
+
+### Lucifer
+- **Rank & domain:** **Emperor of Hell** (ranked *above* Satan in `[EN]`'s
+  scheme); the prideful fallen archangel. Sin = **Pride** (symbol: lion);
+  archdemon of Kether.
+- **Signs / identification:** When conjured, appears as a beautiful child `[EN]`.
+  Associated with Venus / the morning star.
+- **Origins & aliases:** Latin *lucem ferre*, "light-bearer," from the Day Star
+  (Isa 14:12) `[DJ]` `[EN]`. = **Satanael** in *2 Enoch* `[DM]`; treated as the
+  pre-fall name of Satan `[PU]` `[SP]`. `[DJ]` calls it only an allegorical name
+  for "Satan before his fall."
+- **Citations:** `[DM]` "The Watchers of Satanael" pp. 85–99; `[PU]` Lutzer quote
+  ~line 8030; `[DJ]` Bk I Ch VI (~p. 90); `[EN]` "Lucifer" ~15055; `[FG]` PSYCHE.
+
+### Beelzebub
+- **Rank & domain:** **Prince of Demons** — "prince of the demons" `[SP]`,
+  commander of the decan-demons `[EN]`. Sin = **Gluttony**; archdemon of
+  Chockmah. Reigns over the witches' sabbats; arouses lust, war, murder.
+- **Signs / identification:** A gigantic ugly **fly**, or a giant enthroned with
+  swollen face, horns, bat wings, duck feet, lion's tail; thwarted by the oath
+  *Elo-i* `[EN]`. One of the six signatures on the Grandier pact `[DJ]`.
+- **Origins & aliases:** "Lord of the Flies," from Baal-zebul; highest-ranking
+  fallen angel; the chief possessing demon at Aix and Loudun `[EN]`.
+- **Citations:** `[SP]` p. 28 (Satan's names) & Ch. IV p. 42; `[DJ]` Bk III Ch V
+  (~p. 175); `[EN]` "Beelzebub" ~2732; `[FG]` PSYCHE (ALL NAMES).
+
+### Belial (Beliar)
+- **Rank & domain:** **King**, 80 legions (Goetia #68); "chief of demons" (per
+  Paul); leader of the Sons of Darkness; titled Prince of Darkness, King of Evil
+  `[EN]`. Domain: worthlessness, fornication, lies, treachery. At Qumran, head of
+  "the men of the lot of Belial" `[DM]`.
+- **Signs / identification:** A deceptively beautiful, soft-voiced angel in a
+  fire-dragon chariot; "visage like a viper" (Testament of Amram) `[EN]`.
+- **Origins & aliases:** Hebrew "without worth"; one of the Watchers; synonym for
+  Satan/Antichrist. In `[SP]` (via Milton) a chief of the fallen who, "before the
+  flood… with his lusty crew" coupled with the daughters of men.
+- **Citations:** `[DM]` "Eschatological Yom Kippur" p. 40 (Qumran); `[SP]` p. 28
+  & Milton quote p. 52; `[EN]` "Belial" ~2945.
+
+### Astaroth (Ashtaroth)
+- **Rank & domain:** **Grand Duke and Treasurer of Hell**, 40 legions
+  (Goetia #29); one of the three supreme demons (with Beelzebub and Lucifer) in
+  the *Grand Grimoire* `[EN]`. Teaches all sciences; keeper of past/present/future
+  secrets; encourages **sloth**; necromantic divination.
+- **Signs / identification:** An ugly (or beautiful) angel astride a dragon,
+  holding a viper; **foul, stinking breath** (hold a magic ring to your face);
+  conjured Wednesday 10–11 pm `[EN]`. A signatory of the Grandier pact `[DJ]`.
+- **Origins & aliases:** A *male* demon derived from the goddess Astarte/
+  Ashtoreth; fallen seraph, prince of thrones; archdemon of Chesed. In `[SP]`,
+  Milton lists "Ashtaroth" among the feminine chiefs of the fallen angels
+  ("spirits… can either sex assume").
+- **Citations:** `[SP]` Ch. VI p. 65 (Milton); `[DJ]` Bk I Ch VI note 10 (~p. 97);
+  `[EN]` "Astaroth" ~2279.
+
+### Asmodeus (Asmoday, Ashmedai, Aeshma)
+- **Rank & domain:** **King**, 72 legions (Goetia #32), first under Amaymon; one
+  of the seven princes, sin = **Lust**. Ruler of gambling. Domain: lust,
+  jealousy, anger, revenge; wrecks marriages, forces adultery; teaches
+  arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, handicrafts `[EN]`. Ruler of the **shedim**
+  `[EN]`.
+- **Signs / identification:** Three heads (ogre, ram, bull), cock's feet, a
+  serpent's tail and wings; rides a fire-breathing dragon; **fears water**;
+  thwarted by the smoke of fish liver and gall (Book of Tobit) `[EN]`.
+- **Origins & aliases:** Persian, from the daeva **Aeshma** "of the bloody mace"
+  `[EN]` Zoroastrian section; son of Naamah and Shamdon; fallen seraph; husband
+  of Lilith. `[DJ]` cites "Asmoday… a great King ruling seventy-two legions" from
+  the Goetia as a specimen of the hierarchy he rejects.
+- **Citations:** `[DJ]` Bk I Ch VI note 8 (~p. 96); `[EN]` "Asmodeus" ~2170 +
+  Testament of Solomon + Zoroastrian "Aeshma" ~642; `[FG]` PSYCHE (ALL NAMES).
+
+### Leviathan
+- **Rank & domain:** **King of beasts**; sin = **Envy** `[EN]`. Primordial,
+  near-invulnerable sea monster; the "Arch-Fiend" who drags down ships
+  (*Paradise Lost*); swallowed Jonah.
+- **Signs / identification:** Whale-like, shield-scaled, flaming breath, "eyes
+  like the dawn" `[EN]`. Beheld in Abraham's vision of the abyss `[DM]`. On the
+  Grandier pact he "signed with a particularly heavy hand" `[DJ]`.
+- **Origins & aliases:** Job / Jonah. Female aspect the "Tortuous Serpent" linked
+  to Lilith; male the "Slant Serpent"; a Loudun possessing demon `[EN]`.
+- **Citations:** `[DM]` "The Likeness of Heaven" p. 21; `[DJ]` Bk I Ch VI note 10
+  (~p. 97); `[EN]` "Leviathan" ~14260; `[FG]` PSYCHE (ALL NAMES).
+
+### Moloch (Molech)
+- **Rank & domain:** With Satan, "first of the evil demons of the Tree of Life"
+  (Kether); "prince of the valley of tears"; Sun god of detrimental rays, cause
+  of plagues `[EN]`.
+- **Signs / identification:** A bull-headed man with long arms on a brass throne;
+  children burned alive in his hollow bronze belly — the rite of passing "through
+  the fire" `[SP]` `[EN]`.
+- **Origins & aliases:** Ammonite/Phoenician god; identified with Baal, Malik,
+  and Greek Cronos.
+- **Citations:** `[SP]` Ch. VII "Abominations of the Canaanites" p. 71; `[EN]`
+  "Moloch" ~17459.
+
+### Mammon
+- **Rank & domain:** Archdemon and **prince of tempters**; sin = **Avarice**
+  (symbol: wolf); Hell's ambassador to England `[EN]`. Personification of greed
+  and riches.
+- **Origins & aliases:** Aramaic "riches"; a fallen angel, often equated with
+  Lucifer/Satan/Beelzebub `[EN]`.
+- **Citations:** `[EN]` "Mammon" ~16356; `[FG]` PSYCHE (ALL NAMES).
+
+### Belphegor (Baal-Peor)
+- **Rank & domain:** Archdemon of the sixth sephirah (Tipareth); sin = **Sloth**;
+  infernal ambassador to France `[EN]`. Governs riches, inventions and
+  discoveries; misogyny and licentiousness.
+- **Signs / identification:** Sits on a pierced chair (excrement is his offering);
+  appears as a beautiful young girl to tempt men `[EN]`.
+- **Origins & aliases:** The Moabite god Baal-Peor (phallus worship); a fallen
+  Principality.
+- **Citations:** `[EN]` "Belphegor" ~2993; `[FG]` PSYCHE (ALL NAMES).
+
+### Mephistopheles
+- **Rank & domain:** One of the **seven great princes of Hell**; the Devil's
+  representative / pact-familiar `[EN]`. The *famulus* who serves and then damns
+  Faust.
+- **Signs / identification:** A tall man in black; shape-shifts to grey friar,
+  fiery bear, bald dwarf, an invisible ringing bell `[EN]`. The archetypal
+  pact-serving demon `[DJ]`.
+- **Origins & aliases:** Faust-legend figure, named by Trithemius; from Marlowe's
+  *Doctor Faustus* and Goethe's *Faust*.
+- **Citations:** `[DJ]` Bk I Ch VI note 4 (~p. 95); `[EN]` "Mephistopheles"
+  ~16801; `[FG]` PSYCHE (ALL NAMES).
+
+---
+
+## II. The Four Kings of the Quarters
+
+The infernal "directional" kings who command the 72 — named together in `[DJ]`
+(as a hierarchy James rejects) and confirmed in `[EN]`.
+
+| King | Quarter | Attestation |
+|------|---------|-------------|
+| **Amaymon** | East | `[DJ]` Bk I Ch VI note 8 (~p. 96); `[EN]` (Asmodeus, Gaap, Seere serve "under Amaymon") |
+| **Corson** (Curson) | West | `[DJ]` note 8 (~p. 96); cf. `[EN]` Goetia #20 Purson/Curson* |
+| **Zimimar** (Zimimay, Ziminiar) | North | `[DJ]` note 8 (~p. 96); `[EN]` (Goetia conjuration of the four kings) |
+| **Gaap** (Goap) | South | `[DJ]` note 8 (~p. 96); `[EN]` Goetia #33 |
+
+\* `[DJ]`'s directional king **Corson** and the Goetia's Duke **Purson/Curson**
+(#20) are often conflated but may be distinct figures; flagged here as uncertain.
+
+---
+
+## III. Goetia Officers Attested in 2+ Sources
+
+Of the 72 Spirits of Solomon, only a handful surface outside `[EN]`. These do —
+listed with their full grimoire rank.
+
+### Baal (Bael) — *King*
+- **Rank & domain:** **King ruling the East**, 66 legions (Goetia #1). Imparts
+  invisibility and wisdom `[EN]`.
+- **Signs:** Triple-headed — a man's head flanked by cat and toad heads; a hoarse
+  voice `[EN]`.
+- **Origins & aliases:** Canaanite fertility lord, "son of El." In `[SP]`, Milton
+  names "Baalim" among the male chiefs of the fallen, and the Baal-worship of
+  Ahab's prophets is read as Satanic mediumship.
+- **Citations:** `[SP]` Ch. VI p. 65 & Ch. VIII p. 86; `[EN]` "Baal" ~2494.
+
+### Gaap (Goap) — *President and Prince*
+- **Rank & domain:** **President and Prince**, 66 legions (Goetia #33), under
+  Amaymon; also the directional **King of the South** in `[DJ]`. Teaches
+  philosophy, excites love/hate, transports people, gives familiars `[EN]`.
+- **Signs:** A human with huge bat wings, preceded by four kings, when the Sun is
+  in the southern signs `[EN]`.
+- **Citations:** `[DJ]` Bk I Ch VI note 8 (~p. 96); `[EN]` "Gaap" ~9168.
+
+### Foras (Forcas) — *President*
+- **Rank & domain:** **President**, 29 legions (Goetia #31). Teaches logic,
+  ethics, the virtues of herbs and gems; makes invisible; finds treasure; grants
+  eloquence and longevity `[EN]`.
+- **Signs:** A strong man, or a chevalier `[EN]`.
+- **Citations:** `[DJ]` Bk I Ch VI note 8 (~p. 96, "Foras, a mighty President");
+  `[EN]` "Foras" ~9075.
+
+### Berith / Baalberith — *Great Duke*
+- **Rank & domain:** **Great Duke**, 26 legions (Goetia #28). Gives true answers,
+  turns metals to gold, a great liar; **notarizes infernal pacts** `[EN]`.
+- **Signs:** A red-skinned soldier in a golden crown on a red horse; the conjurer
+  must wear a silver ring `[EN]`.
+- **Origins & aliases:** A fallen cherub-prince; "Baalberith" links him to Baal.
+- **Citations:** `[EN]` "Berith" ~2920; alias overlap with Baal worship in `[SP]`.
+
+---
+
+## IV. The Watcher Tier — Fallen Angels of the Enochic Command
+
+A *separate*, older hierarchy: 200 angels organized under "chiefs of tens" who
+descended, took human wives, and fathered the Nephilim. Central to `[DM]`, with
+parallels in `[EN]` and `[SP]`.
+
+### Azazel (Asael, Azael)
+- **Rank & domain:** Chief of the fallen — elevated in the *Apocalypse of
+  Abraham* from "a leader among the fallen" to **the** arch-demon, who "rules the
+  stars and most men" `[DM]`. **King of the seirim** (goat-spirits) `[FG]` `[EN]`;
+  governs "the lot of Azazel" (the wicked / the Gentiles). Taught weapon-making,
+  cosmetics, and forbidden secrets.
+- **Signs / identification:** The **scapegoat** of Yom Kippur driven to the
+  wilderness pit **Dudael** (Lev 16); appears as an "unclean bird" descending on
+  sacrifices; in the protological vision, a serpent with human hands/feet and
+  twelve wings `[DM]`. Goat-like; dwells in the desert `[FG]`.
+- **Origins & aliases:** A Watcher who lusted after mortal women (1 Enoch 6–11);
+  bound by Raphael in Dudael. In Islam = **Iblis**'s pre-fall name `[FG]` `[EN]`;
+  later conflated with Satan.
+- **Citations:** `[DM]` "The Likeness of Heaven," "Eschatological Yom Kippur,"
+  "The Garment of Azazel" (throughout); `[FG]` DESERT "Azazel" pp. 144–145;
+  `[EN]` "Azazel" ~2411.
+
+### Semyaza / Shemihazah
+- **Rank & domain:** **Leader of the Watchers** (the 200); proposed the binding
+  oath on Mount Hermon (1 Enoch 6) `[DM]`. In *2 Enoch* this leadership is
+  reassigned to Satanael.
+- **Signs / identification:** Hung upside-down in Orion as punishment `[EN]`;
+  father of the giants Hiwa/Hiya (Ohya/Ahya).
+- **Origins & aliases:** Shemyaza, Semjaza, Shemhazai; paired with Azael as the
+  two arch-Watchers.
+- **Citations:** `[DM]` "The Watchers of Satanael" pp. 85, 94, 100; `[EN]`
+  "Semyaza" ~22117.
+
+### Satanael
+- **Rank & domain:** **Prince of the Watchers** leading 200 myriads (*2 Enoch*)
+  `[DM]`; the chief celestial rebel of the Adamic myth who refused to venerate
+  Adam.
+- **Signs / identification:** Flies "ceaselessly above the abyss" after his fall;
+  planter of the cursed vine `[DM]`. Made dark and ugly, loses creative power, and
+  **loses the "-el"** to become Satan `[EN]`.
+- **Origins & aliases:** = Lucifer (`[EN]`), folds into Satan/Samael. The bridge
+  figure between the Watcher myth and the Devil of the upper tier.
+- **Citations:** `[DM]` "The Watchers of Satanael" pp. 85–99; `[EN]` "Satanail"
+  ~21556.
+
+### Samael (Sammael)
+- **Rank & domain:** **"The first prince and accuser, the commander of jealousy"**
+  `[DM]`; chief of the ten evil sephirot; "prince of Rome"; "venom of God,"
+  executioner of God's death sentences `[EN]`.
+- **Signs / identification:** The **rider on the serpent** — "Samael came down
+  from heaven riding on this serpent" (*Zohar*) `[DM]`; the dark spots of the Moon
+  are his excrement `[EN]`.
+- **Origins & aliases:** The serpent who tempted Eve; uncircumcised husband of
+  **Lilith**; equated with Satan. Listed among Satan's aliases in `[FG]`.
+- **Citations:** `[DM]` "The Garment of Azazel" pp. 76–77; `[EN]` "Samael" ~21366;
+  `[FG]` PSYCHE (ALL NAMES, "Sammael").
+
+### Uzza, Azza & Azael (the three Watchers)
+- **Rank & domain:** A trio of fallen angelic leaders who opposed the creation of
+  man and **taught humanity sorcery**, by which Enosh's generation fell into
+  idolatry `[DM]`.
+- **Origins & aliases:** Reworked Watcher names echoing Shemihazah/Asael; Uzza is
+  also the tutelary (fallen) spirit of Egypt `[EN]`.
+- **Citations:** `[DM]` "The Watchers of Satanael" pp. 90–91, 100–101 (3 Enoch);
+  `[EN]` "Uzza" ~25329.
+
+### The Nephilim (with Ohya & Ahya) — *the giant offspring*
+- **Status:** Not rulers but the monstrous progeny of the Watchers and the
+  daughters of men; the antediluvian corruption that brought the Flood. Two named
+  sons of Semyaza: **Ohya** and **Ahya** (Heb. Hiwa/Hiya) `[DM]` `[EN]`. In `[SP]`
+  identified with the Genesis 6 "mighty men… of renown" and the post-Flood "sons
+  of Anak."
+- **Citations:** `[DM]` "The Flooded Arboretums" pp. 113–125; `[SP]` Ch. VI
+  pp. 51, 57; `[EN]` "Nephilim" ~17925.
+
+---
+
+## V. Other Recurring Named Spirits
+
+Attested in 2+ sources but outside the grimoire/Watcher spines.
+
+### Iblis & the Shaitan
+- **Rank & domain:** **Chief of all djinn, King of the Shaitans** `[FG]`;
+  the arch-demon of Islam, "spirit of doubt," commanding an army of *marid*. The
+  **Shaitan** are a type of djinni, invariably evil, ruled by Iblis `[FG]` `[EN]`.
+- **Signs / identification:** A fallen angel "puffed up with pride" who refused to
+  bow to Adam ("you created me of fire, him of clay") `[FG]`.
+- **Origins & aliases:** Closely identified with **Azazel** (his pre-fall name)
+  `[FG]` `[EN]`.
+- **Citations:** `[FG]` DESERT "Iblis" p. 146 & "Shaitan" pp. 151–153; `[EN]`
+  "Iblis"/"Shaytan."
+
+### Lilith
+- **Rank & domain:** **Bride of Samael**; archdemon "The Seducer" of Yesod; rides
+  with **420 legions** on the Day of Atonement `[EN]`. Night demon and succubus —
+  strangles newborns, seduces sleeping men to spawn demons.
+- **Signs / identification:** A beautiful woman with long red hair and a body of
+  fire (or hairy, bestial legs); a screech owl; power peaks at the dark Moon;
+  repelled by iron and the names Sanvi/Sansanvi/Semangelaf `[EN]`. Kabbalistic
+  "queen of hell," conflated with the Roman *strix*/stirges owl-demon `[DJ]`.
+- **Origins & aliases:** Adam's first wife (Isa 34:14); Babylonian *lilitu*;
+  mother of the *lilin*. In `[FG]` she is also the mother of Norway's Huldrefolk.
+- **Citations:** `[DJ]` Bk III Ch I note 4 (~p. 154); `[EN]` "Lilith" ~14415;
+  `[FG]` MOUNTAIN (Huldrefolk) & DOMICILE (ALL NAMES).
+
+### Python / Pytho (the oracular spirit)
+- **Rank & domain:** A **familiar / oracular possessing spirit** of divination —
+  "the same that guided the Delphic oracle" `[SP]`; the power behind the
+  Philippian "damsel… possessed with a spirit of divination" (Acts 16).
+- **Signs / identification:** Speaks oracular/future words **through** a possessed
+  woman ("by her tongue," not at her command), marking true possession `[DJ]`.
+  The host swells, "full of the god" `[SP]`.
+- **Origins & aliases:** From the serpent-dragon Python slain by Apollo at Delphi;
+  "Pythoness" generalized to any oracular woman — incl. the Witch of Endor
+  (1 Sam 28) `[DJ]`.
+- **Citations:** `[SP]` Ch. III p. 37 & Ch. IX pp. 97–99; `[DJ]` Bk II Ch I
+  (~pp. 106–107).
+
+### Diana (of the night-court)
+- **Rank & domain:** Pagan goddess reinterpreted as a demonic power. In `[SP]`,
+  "the goddess" of Ephesus, object of demon-worship and magic (Acts 19). In
+  `[DJ]`, head of the fourth class of spirits — "**Diana and her wandering
+  court**," the witches' nocturnal flying host (the fairies / "Good Neighbours").
+- **Signs / identification:** Women "seduced by the illusions of demons" believe
+  they ride by night with Diana over vast distances `[DJ]` (quoting Regino of
+  Prüm).
+- **Citations:** `[SP]` Ch. IX p. 100; `[DJ]` Bk III Ch V (~p. 173) & note 1.
+
+### Apollyon / Abaddon
+- **Rank & domain:** **Prince ruling the seventh hierarchy** (the Furies); king of
+  the abyss / bottomless pit; death and devastation (Rev 9:11) `[EN]`.
+- **Origins & aliases:** Hebrew "place of destruction" personified; Greek
+  *Apollyon*, "the destroyer"; equated with Satan/Samael. Listed as a name of
+  Satan in `[SP]`.
+- **Citations:** `[SP]` p. 28 (Satan's names); `[EN]` "Abaddon" ~437.
+
+### Legion
+- **Rank & domain:** Not a single rank but the **collective** of demons possessing
+  the Gerasene demoniac — "many demons as one" (Mark 5). Cited as proof of
+  demonic personhood `[PU]`.
+- **Signs / identification:** A "persistent negotiator" who bargained with Jesus
+  and transferred into the swine `[PU]`; in `[FG]` the "Gerasene Demon."
+- **Citations:** `[PU]` §1.7 (~lines 2434–2450); `[FG]` PSYCHE (ALL NAMES).
+
+### The Shedim / Seirim (goat-demons)
+- **Rank & domain:** A *class*, not an individual: Hebrew wilderness demons. The
+  **seirim** ("goat demons"/"satyrs," Lev 17:7, Isa 34:14) and **shedhim**
+  (recipients of idolatrous child-sacrifice, Deut 32:17, Ps 106:37) `[PU]`. In
+  `[EN]`, the shedim are **ruled by Asmodeus**.
+- **Signs / identification:** Hairy, horned, wide-mouthed, with lolling tongues
+  and wings; "eat, drink, marry, and die like men"; haunt ruins and waste places
+  `[FG]`. Azazel is their **king** `[FG]` `[EN]`.
+- **Citations:** `[PU]` §2.5.2 (~lines 3285–3317); `[FG]` FOREST "Shedim"
+  pp. 125–127; `[EN]` "Shedim" ~22557.
+
+### Ahriman (Angra Mainyu)
+- **Rank & domain:** The Zoroastrian **"demon of all demons,"** the Destructive
+  Spirit and source of all evil; created the diseases, six archdemons, and the
+  dragon Azhi Dahaka `[EN]`. In `[FG]`, the Persian principle of cosmic darkness.
+- **Origins & aliases:** Twin of Ahura Mazda; commands the **daeva**. His
+  lieutenant Aeshma is the root of Hebrew **Asmodeus** — tying this tradition back
+  to Tier I.
+- **Citations:** `[FG]` (ALL NAMES, "Ahriman / Angra Mainyu"); `[EN]` "Ahriman"
+  ~695.
+
+### Pazuzu
+- **Status:** Mesopotamian wind/plague demon; appears in both `[FG]` (DOMICILE)
+  and `[EN]` (Mesopotamian section). Included for completeness as a 2-source
+  recurrence; little rank detail given in either.
+- **Citations:** `[FG]` DOMICILE (ALL NAMES); `[EN]` "Pazuzu."
+
+---
+
+## VI. The Recurrence Map
+
+How many of the six sources name each principal entity (aliases merged):
+
+| Entity | `[FG]` | `[DM]` | `[PU]` | `[SP]` | `[DJ]` | `[EN]` | Count |
+|--------|:--:|:--:|:--:|:--:|:--:|:--:|:--:|
+| **Satan** (Devil/Sammael/Satanael) | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | **6** |
+| **Lucifer** | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | **6** |
+| **Beelzebub** | ● | | | ● | ● | ● | 4 |
+| **Leviathan** | ● | ● | | | ● | ● | 4 |
+| **Azazel** (Iblis) | ● | ● | | | | ● | 3 |
+| **Samael** | ● | ● | | | | ● | 3 |
+| **Belial** | | ● | | ● | | ● | 3 |
+| **Asmodeus** (Aeshma) | ● | | | | ● | ● | 3 |
+| **Astaroth** | | | | ● | ● | ● | 3 |
+| **Mephistopheles** | ● | | | | ● | ● | 3 |
+| **Lilith** | ● | | | | ● | ● | 3 |
+| **Nephilim** | | ● | | ● | | ● | 3 |
+| **Watchers / Semyaza** | | ● | | (●) | | ● | 3 |
+| **Shedim / Seirim** | ● | | ● | | | ● | 3 |
+| **Python** | | | | ● | ● | | 2 |
+| **Diana** | | | | ● | ● | | 2 |
+| **Moloch** | | | | ● | | ● | 2 |
+| **Baal / Bael** | | | | ● | | ● | 2 |
+| **Mammon** | ● | | | | | ● | 2 |
+| **Belphegor** | ● | | | | | ● | 2 |
+| **Apollyon / Abaddon** | | | | ● | | ● | 2 |
+| **Legion** | ● | | ● | | | | 2 |
+| **Iblis / Shaitan** | ● | | | | | ● | 2 |
+| **Ahriman** | ● | | | | | ● | 2 |
+| **Gaap / Foras / Amaymon** (Goetia in `[DJ]`) | | | | | ● | ● | 2 |
+| **Pazuzu** | ● | | | | | ● | 2 |
+
+*(● = named; (●) = present by close cognate.)* Only **Satan** and **Lucifer**
+appear in all six. The hierarchy's "depth" is an artifact of `[EN]` alone — every
+rank below Prince that lacks a second ● is a single-source figure and was
+excluded from the entries above.
+
+---
+
+## VII. What the sources actually disagree about
+
+1. **Is the demonic personal at all?** `[PU]` frames the whole question: Unger
+   says demons are real personal beings with names and ranks; Barth says the
+   demonic is *das Nichtige* ("nothingness"), a shadow of creation — so a "ranked
+   hierarchy" is, for Barth, a category error.
+2. **Is the hierarchy real or a fraud?** `[EN]` reports the grimoire ranks
+   straight; `[DJ]` (King James) says the ranks are **lies the Devil tells
+   magicians** to flatter them — there is one Devil under many names.
+3. **Who leads the fallen?** `[DM]` shows the leadership migrating: Azazel →
+   Shemihazah/Semyaza → Satanael → Satan, as later texts overwrite earlier ones.
+   The "supreme" slot is a moving target.
+4. **Where do the demons come from?** Three incompatible origin myths coexist:
+   fallen angels of pride (Isa 14 / Ezek 28, `[SP]` `[EN]`); the lustful Watchers
+   of Genesis 6 / 1 Enoch (`[DM]`); and pagan gods demonized by monotheism
+   (Baal, Astarte, Diana, Moloch, Ahriman — `[SP]` `[FG]` `[EN]`).
+
+The ladder in this document is the **`[EN]`/grimoire** answer, cross-checked
+against the others wherever they name the same entity. Read it as one coherent
+tradition rendered in full — not as a fact the six books endorse together.
+
+---
+
+*Sources: the six documents in `md/demonology/`. Page/line citations point into
+those converted files (`-----` page boundaries; `~NNNN` = approximate line in the
+Encyclopedia). Aliases are merged to the most common form; see the Recurrence Map
+for which books attest each name.*