# 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.*