I've just had a mindfuck in my entry on the demon Zagan for my notes, working through his entry in Stellas Daemonum. Crowhurst pursues a comparison between Zagan, Azazel, and the Dactyls, which required me to briefly dip back into Jake Stratton Kent's Geosophia, and then it hit me. The Watchers of Enoch are sort of divine (albeit fallen) teachers of metals and other things of the earth, along with sorcery and other arts forbidden by God; the Dactyls of ancient Greece were also metalworkers, prototpyical sorcerers (goes), and the founders of chthonic mystery cults in places like Crete and Rhodes; and, while Zagan can teach the arts of transmutation and turn earth into metals and metals into money, he is not the only demon who can do this, and he is one of many demons throughout the grimoires who can teach the conjurer about metals, treasures, and other things of the earth, as well as the arts of transmutation (altogether, other examples would include Astaroth, Beelzebub, Nebiros, Purson, Stolas, and Ose). With that in mind, I've found that Zagan's association with this ability, especially when set alongside other demons, forms a complete picture of the thread that connects the goetia of the grimoires (and its modern forms) back to the pagan underworld mysteries revolving around deities like Dactyls and the Enochian lore of fallen angels that runs through the whole Western tradition of demonology. It is such that, even though I pursued my notes with the intent of discovering connections between individual demons and specific deities through Crowhurst, it may be that, regardless of that, all the demons, even the most distant emanations, perform a function like the chthonic Dactyls and the Enochian Watchers at once, thus linking all of them to the same role, making all of them, in a sense divine teachers of occult arts and mysteries, like the Dactyls. I suppose the etymological possibilities also imply an even more complete connection to the desire of the demons and fallen angels to fornicate with the human species, at least if his name somehow connects to the Greek words for syzgy, pairs, and copulation. With that, we can also go back to the way the decanate daimons can and desire to interact with matter, going back again to the fornication of the Watchers, and hence demons.
