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Adramelech
Also spelled
Adrammelech and Adramelechk.
A
demon
said to be
worshipped at
Sepharvaim, an Assyrian
town, where children were burned on his altar. It was usually
characterized
under the shape of a mule, or sometimes, of a peacock.
Other demonologists claimed that he
was a combination of both, with a mule head, a human torso and a peacock feather tail, because
besides being though of as a very stubborn demon, Adramelech supposedly displayed
great
pride in his position as the lord chancellor of Hell,
'Keeper of the
Wardrobe of the Demon King' and president of Satan's private council, the
High Council of the Devils. Other titles allegedly held by the infernal
lord Adramalech
included great minister and chancellor of the Order of the Fly, an exclusive
club founded by the notorious
Beelzebub.
Adramelech has been linked to the
angel Asmadai,
mentioned in Milton’s
Paradise
Lost as one of the potent thrones. Milton
also referred to Adramelech as an Assyrian idol and as an angel defeated
by Uriel and Raphael. In addition, he appears in
The History of Magic,
pictured as a horse, and has been equated with the
Babylonian god Anu, and with the Ammonite Moloch.
Adramelech is
mentioned twice in the Old Testament as well, first as a son of the Assyrian King Sennacharib along with Sharezer, who murdered
their father while he was worshiping in the temple of his idol, Nisrach.
The second mention is in the context of his worship by the Sepharvites:
"the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire as sacrifices to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim." - 2 Kings
17:31.
See
Heptameron,
Demonology,
Demonomancy,
Grimoires,
Casting Black Magic Spells,
Commanding Spirits,
The Tarot Store and
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Supplies.
Sources: (1) Masello, Robert,
Fallen Angels. . . and Spirits of the Dark,
The Berkley Publishing Group; (2) Spence, Lewis,
An Encyclopedia of
Occultism, Carol Publishing Group; (3) de Plancy,
Collin, Dictionnaire Infernal,
Editions; (4) Wier, Johann,
De Praestigiis Daemonum, Pegasus;
(5) Mathers, S. Liddell
MacGregor,
The Goetia, The Key of Solomon the
King, The Book Tree; (6) Milton, John,
Paradise
Lost; (7)
Lewis,
James R.,
Angels A to Z,
Visible Ink Press.
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