Parasite Ape Spirit
While delivering my Spirit Identification service, I observed a spirit species I had never seen before that had been bothering Heretic @heretic-thinking for a long time. All information from work at my @spiritroots shop is completely confidential so this article has been published with her permission!
I could strongly sense an intense male energy, so I will refer to this spirit as a “he.” He was clearly a type of parasite spirit since he had been clinging to and feeding on someone for a very long time. He was simply following his instincts for survival, but unfortunately those had extremely harmful consequences. This type of spirit is not inherently evil, but clearly quite strong and dangerous.
Appearance
Overall, he looked like a very scruffy, hairy black ape. Fairly big but also lean, he seemed sort of like a tailess cross between a baboon and a gorilla, but didn’t match up with any actual ape species from Earth that I could find. He had three eyes like black circles that seemed almost exactly like arachnid eyes and very long hooked claws on his front paws. The sketch I made isn’t perfectly accurate, but it gives a general idea. He has been seen by others as looking more like a black dog or wolf, so perhaps he looks a bit different to different spirit workers. This was just my impression from what I saw.
Powers and Abilities
I sensed that this spirit has essentially an animal-level of consciousness and intelligence. I never tried speaking to him, but I suspect that he doesn’t have enough sophisticated capacity for speech. However, certainly seemed to have some interesting and useful spiritual powers over astral projection and/or illusion. It seemed that he can project himself to appear in multiple places at once.
I could see him projecting himself into different locations, being in completely different places simultaneously. Next I saw him traveling in a pack of other spirits that looked exactly like him in the way you might see a pack of wolves traveling together. It was then that I realized there weren’t multiple spirits in the “pack” - it was only him, projecting himself into multiple places or at least creating the illusion of that.
Offspring of an Egyptian God
After the scrying session to identify the spirit, I did some further research based on other information that Heretic had passed along to me to figure out who he was. There was some kind of association between this parasite spirit and an Egyptian baboon god of the underworld, Babi. We eventually uncovered that the parasite ape spirit was one of Babi’s offspring, who was meant to work for him in the underworld.
Babi is typically characterized in sources on Egyptian mythology as a bloodthirsty, extremely aggressive baboon whose name means the “bull of the baboons,” or the dominant alpha male. He does live on human entrails and sometimes even murders on sight, but it could be easy from this description to underestimate him as a deity and one of the Netjer. Babi is extremely intelligent and his ability to scheme should not be taken for granted. He is also a symbol of virility and male sexuality. His phallus is the mast of the underworld’s ferryboat.
Parasitic Feeding
Alongside his Netjer father, this ape spirit devoured the souls of those whose hearts had been weighted against the feather of Ma’at and failed this test of character. Perhaps sick and tired of the spirits of the dead, he was attracted to Heretic’s energy because she is a psychopomp who works with helping the dead pass on but has a potent and powerful energy of her own.
It was irresistible to him, and so this spirit shirked his duties in the underworld and escaped to make her his parasitic host. When I first identified him, I found him latched on to Heretic like the way a monkey carries a baby on her back. His long curved claws were digging into the shoulders of her astral body and he kept his feet hanging against her back, which developed bruises after having had him there for so long.
He was with her, feeding on her for over a decade before voluntarily returning to Babi in the underworld for while. I got a sense that this was because he needed to replenish his connection to the underworld for some time before returning to feed off of his favorite energy source in the world of the living. With a lot of work and effort, he has since been forced to return again to Babi, but be very wary of this spirit or others like him if he ever leaves to find a new host to feed on in the world of the living.
- Mod Fire
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P.S. A special thank you to Heretic, who also contributed information to this article! The two of us discovered these things together as I helped her deal with removing this very abusive spirit from her life. We both hope with sharing this information that it may help others if they ever encounter the same spirit.