#bird god

[scythlyven-art]

Late night doodle break from comms

My quick interpretation of the pc from slay the princess~

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[nogetron]

Amon, the infernal clairvoyant. One of the dark demons of Hell’s horde, Amon is either a Marquis or one of the princes. His appearance is that of an owl’s head with the body of a wolf and the tail of a serpent.

He reigns over forty demonic legions, of those who he has command over include many a demon, such as Gaap, Seere and the calamitous Asmodeus. Despite Amon’s own peons commanding more legions than him, Amon himself is declared to be the strongest of Hell’s princes. With this strength, Amon is among the four demonic kings of the cardinal directions lording over the east. In other texts it’s said that Amon is under the command of Astaroth.

Amon, like many demons, holds powers over the supernatural. From his breath can spew poison and flame, only a blessed silver ring can protect a summoner from the demon’s noxious breath. Amon is said to possess the ability to gaze into the past and future. By playing with the hearts of men he can have estranged friends and enemies reconcile with one another, and can even procure love. Amon is capable of conjuring the spirits of sailors who perished at sea, inquiring their knowledge. It’s said to be too dangerous to summon Amon directly, as the demon can quickly outwit and overpower summoners not strong of spirit.

Moses’ old subjugators, the Egyptians, once worshipped Amon. They saw him as their supreme god and ruler of the cosmos. Speaking through the prophet Jeremiah, the Abrahamic God warned Egypt of the coming calamity. To punish Amon, the gods of Egypt and the people of Egypt itself, God backed the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II in his conquest of Egypt. Nebuchadnezzar sacked Egypt, taking its wealth and killing its pharaoh.

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Amon was a popular demon in occultic demonology, gaining prominence in grimoires like the Lesser Key of Solomon, Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, and the Dictionnaire Infernal among others.

Another demon mentioned in these grimoires is Amaymon. Despite the fact that I couldn’t find any academic material confirming it, I’ve seen many unreliable sites claim that the two were one and the same. While both are mentioned in the same texts, I do generally believe the notion that the two were probably the same. Both were Princes, both have similar names, both had demonic powers related to their breath (Amon had fire breath while Amaymon is recorded as having both fire and poisonous breath), and crucially both were said to be Egyptian in origin. Ultimately I did synchronize the two due to these aforementioned similarities, but it was under my own independent conclusion and not of those unreliable sources.

In the early English translations of the Lesser Key of Solomon it’s mentioned in Asmodeus’ section that summoners who call upon Amaymon must stand up straight and remove any head coverings in respect to Amon, or else risk enraging him. This is strangely not mentioned whatsoever in the original Latin text, with it generally being believed that it was the result of a poor translation.

While Amaymon’s membership within the four demonic kings is consistent, his position within them is subject to change. He can be variably be attributed to the directions of east or south. The other members are typically Oriens, Paimon, and Egyn. Each one’s cardinal direction periodically changes from text to text, on some occasions even replacing one of them with Asmodeus. Each of these members are in turn synchronized with specific demons of Jewish literature, these demons were Samael, Azazel, Azrael, and Mahazael. While literature typically had who the other three demonic kings corresponded to change between texts, strangely Amaymon consistently corresponded with Mahazael.

There are two main hypotheses for the origin of Amon. The first suggests that Amon was the demonized form of the Egyptian Amun, while the other instead proposes that he was the demonized form of the Punic Baal Hammon. Both gods have a shared origin in the native Libyan-Amazigh god Amen. It’s most likely that Amon was instead demonized from Amun rather than Baal Hammon, as most demonology grimoires state that Amon was not only an Egyptian god but also directly says that Amon and Amun were the same.

The Amon in the Bible refers to the Egyptian god Amun (further evidence supporting that Amon was demonized from Amun). In the section mentioning Amon, the Bible states that Nebuchadnezzar II defeated Egypt in his conquest. While this is a verifiable event, as there are Egyptian and Babylonian records of this taking place, Nebuchadnezzar’s victory has been called into question. Rather than the victory described in the Bible, Nebuchadnezzar’s invasion seems to have failed in recorded history. Nebuchadnezzar is recorded to have attempted an invasion of Egypt multiple times, yet each time he was seemingly unsuccessful and pushed out, although he was able to gain footholds and carve through sizable chunks of Egypt’s territory.

Amon’s name has few deviations, mainly just different renderings of his name such as Aamon and Amoun. Amaymon is different however, with a few more variations, including Amoymon, Amaimon, Omoymon. I’ve seen some websites also site the name Nahum as another name for Amon, but I haven’t found any reliable sources stating as such.

[evilhorse]

Foolish woman…you are soon to be a vestal of the temple bird-god!

(Tarzan Volume 1 #230)

[sysirauta]

Something simplier today, have a tiny Creator creating something that, judging by color, might be Envy.

[chopsyn]

Little birds born without a mother or a father 

[quinnred]

Some more sketches of the feathered god: Prakura. In some occasions she'll cry gold to produce a mask for her skull-end beak, usually to personalize a conversation with unique mortals. The face is....never quite right.

[artofmaquenda]

The Guardian Prints: https://www.etsy.com/ArtofMaquenda/listing/976856697