The Encyclopedia Of Demons And Demonology

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Azazel (DICTIONNAIRE INFERNAL)
Azael means “who God strengthens.” According to lore,
Azael slept with Naamah and spawned Assyrian guardian
spirits known as sedim, invoked in the EXORCISM of evil
spirits. As punishment, Azael is chained in a desert until
Judgment Day. In magical lore, he guards hidden treasure
and teaches WITCHCRAFT that enable men to make the
Sun, Moon, and stars move down from the sky.
In 3 Enoch, Azazel (Azael) is one of three primary
ministering angels with Azza and Uzza, who live in the
seventh (highest) heaven. In later lore, he is fallen and is
punished by having his nose pierced.
In Akkadian lore, Azazel is one of the MASKIM, princes
of HELL.
In Islamic lore, Azazel or Azazeel was the name of IB-
LIS before he disobeyed God by not bowing to humans
and was sent from the Earth.
FURTHER READING:
al-Ashqar, Umar Sulaiman. The World of the Jinn and Devils.
Translated by Jamaal al-Din M. Zarabozo. New York:
Al-Basheer Company for Publications and Translations,
1998.
Mack, Carol K., and Dinah Mack. A Field Guide to Demons:
Fairies, Fallen Angels, and Other Subversive Spirits. New
York: Owl Books/Henry Holt, 1998.
Azhi Dahaka (Azhi Dahaki, Azi, Azdaha, Ahi,
Zohak) In Persian and Babylonian lore, a snake DEMON.
Azhi Dahaka is Zohak in the Avesta creation myth of
ZOROASTRIANISM, as the personification of the Evil One.
His name means “biting snake.”
Azhi Dahaka (© SCOTT BRENTS—O.O.O.B., ABRACADABRA
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Azhi Dahaka was created by Angra Mainyu (later
AHRIMAN) and serves him. He has three heads and three
jaws, which represent pain, anguish, and death; six or 18
eyes; fangs; and wings. He is filled with spiders, snakes,
scorpions, and other venomous creatures that, if set free,
would infect the entire world.
Azhi Dahaka also is described in human form with
two venomous SERPENTs twining out from his neck, and
as a DRUJ, half-human and half-beast. The snakes grew because
either Ahriman or IBLIS kissed Azhi Dahaka there.
The snakes had to be fed human brains or animal BLOOD.
In Babylonian lore, he was the king of Babel and had a
human shape with serpents in his neck.
Azhi Dahaka governs storms and storm clouds and
causes drought and disease. He eats cattle. In lore, he
turned to eating humans, even the first one created, King
Yima. He usurps Yima and rules for 1,000 years until he
is vanquished by the Persian king Fereydun. The demon
will destroy one-third of the world until he is stopped
by Keresapa. In Persian lore, the Persian king Fereydun
(Thraetona) binds him in chains under Mount Davand
by the Caspian Sea until the end of time. In another version,
Azhi Dahaka is chained to a rock in the sun until
he dies.