Agares

Agares

In demonology, according to some authors, Agares (or Agreascite web | last =Mathers | first =Samuel | title =The Lesser Key of Solomon: Goetia | work =SHEMHAMPHORASH | url =http://www.sacred-texts.com/grim/lks/lks05.htm | accessdate =2008-02-19] ) is a Duke (or Grand Dukecite web |last = Collin de Plancy | first = Thomas | title = Dictionnaire Infernal | url= http://books.google.com/books?id=ng8JAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=intitle:Dictionnaire+intitle:Infernal&lr=&num=100&as_brr=1&source=gbs_summary_r | accessdate = 2008-02-19 ] ), ruling the eastern zone of Hell, and being served by 31 legions of demons.

He can make runaways come back, and those who run stand still. He can also cause earthquakes and teaches languages, finding pleasure in teaching immoral expressions. He also has the power to destroy dignities, both temporal and supernatural.cite web | last =Peterson | first =Joseph | title =Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis, or Lesser Key of Solomon | work =Ars Goetia | url =http://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/goetia.htm | accessdate =2007-04-15] cite web | last =Weyer | first =Johann | title =De praestigiis daemonum | work =Pseudomonarchia Daemonum | url =http://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/weyer.htm | accessdate =2007-04-15]

He is depicted as a pale old man riding a crocodile and with a hawk on his fist.

In popular culture

*Agares is one character in Wayne Douglas Barlowe's series of paintings depicting Hell and its inhabitants. He appears in portrait in Barlowe's Inferno and as a minor character in Barlowe's first novel, "God's Demon".

*Alion Lucada, a member of the alien race known as the Shura from Super Robot Wars Compact 3 and Super Robot Wars Original Generations, pilots a Shura God known as Agares.

*In the 2006 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game supplement "Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and True Name Magic", Agares appears as a "vestige" with whom characters can make a pact in return for power. He is portrayed as both a crocodile and a hawk.

ee also

*The Lesser Key of Solomon
*Pseudomonarchia Daemonum
*Dictionnaire Infernal

References

ources

**S. L. MacGregor Mathers, A. Crowley, "" (1904). 1995 reprint: ISBN 0-87728-847-X.


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