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- It then tackles the range of late antique definitions of and stories about the origins and nature of demons, in particular their relationship to gods and humans. Such ideas clearly shaped notions of how demons operated in the contemporary world.
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In classical ancient Greece ‘daimones’ were perceived as guardian spirits, or as either good or evil spirits who try to influence the human psyche. However, in Christian theology, demons were always considered evil, whereas angels were thought to serve as God’s messengers or agents.
- Wolfgang Behringer
- 2007
Feb 23, 2022 · In Pandemonium, there is an emphasis on the importance of demonic names—Azazel, Mephistopheles, Lucifer, Baphomet, Moloch, and so on—because being able to a give proper name to something is crucial to controlling it, an inviolate principle of demonology.
Daemonologie —in full Dæmonologie, In Forme of a Dialogue, Divided into three Books: By the High and Mightie Prince, James &c. —was first published in 1597 [1] by King James VI of Scotland (later also James I of England) as a philosophical dissertation on contemporary necromancy and the historical relationships between the various methods ...
This chapter aims to explore both how attitudes to and ideas about demons were shared across religious cultures, and also where religious and philosophical thinkers diverged in their accounts of the origins and activities of the demons.
- Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe
- 2018
The role of Xenokrates in the history of Greek daimonology must be reconsidered in the light of Pythagoras, who should be attributed both with identifying daimon-tyche and with the distinction between good and bad daimones, which, in turn, is rooted in ancient folk beliefs.
Jul 4, 2023 · When we find references to daimones in the Greek Psalter and LXX Isaiah, however, it is from after this first flourishing of Jewish demonology in Aramaic and more contemporaneous with our Hebrew evidence for its reception and transformation, such as we find in Jubilees, 11Q11, and Songs of the Sage. 56.
Employed as aids in the identification and prosecution of witches, demonologies examine the history and theology as well as the legal and medical implications and consequences of such interactions. This article begins with a discussion of the association of demonology with witchcraft and the witch.
