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the hinge, like the they storm.
the wife from the embrace of the man,
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The Maskim embodied the forces of chaos opposed to the normal course of
nature. as we have already seen, they also attacked "From the
four corners the thrust of their advance burns like violently
invade the dwellings of man, they lay bare the town as well as the
" In Simon's which also mentions the ,n,,,, ,,,,,"uu,
read that they are the lords over the shadows and over the
seas. reigned once over the lost land of
Let us now take a closer look at the particular demons and their nature.
This is based on from a magical project, which was
at an exploration of Maskim through rituals and focused
meditations. The project was in 2006 as a collaboration n""l-Ul�>""n
Magan and Lodge Dragon Rouge It included
devoted to each of the Maskim demons, on reversed
exorcisms and banishing from ancient sources and also
incantations from Simon's Necronomicon. Each working was constructed on
similar words of power and incantations. Each also included a
oltenng and meditation with the to establish an astral contact
with other participants.
and
dark
first of the Maskim is "the South wind" demon. It is with the
the heat of the sun and the which brings death of humans
diseases and the destruction of crops. It is an hot
burning everything that it encounters on its way,
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