- Balam (demon)
In
demonology , Balam (also Balaam, Balan) is a great and powerful king (to some authors a duke) ofHell who commands over forty legions ofdemon s. He gives perfect answers on things past, present, and to come, and can also make men invisible and witty.Balam is depicted as being three-headed. One head is the head of a bull, the second of a
man , and the third of a ram. He has flaming eyes and the tail of a serpent. He carries ahawk on his fist and rides a strongbear . At other times he is represented as a naked man riding abear .His name seems to have been taken from
Balaam , theBiblical magician.In Modern Culture
In the early 90's there was a gothic band called "Balam & the angels"
Balam (as Balan) appears in Polish fantasy movie "Dzieje Mistrze Twardowskiego" ("The Story of Master Twardowski") as the Duke of Hell, the main adversary of famous polish necromancer Twardowski.
In the
Outlanders SF series byMark Ellis (writing asJames Axler ), Balam is presented as 1,500 year old alien/human hybrid, the last of theArchons , who correspond to theRoswell Greys .In the 2006
Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game supplement "Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and True Name Magic", Balam appears as a "vestige" with whom characters can make a pact in return for power.ee also
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*S. L. MacGregor Mathers, A. Crowley, "" (1904). 1995 reprint: ISBN 0-87728-847-X.
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