- Agrat Bat Mahlat
In
Zohar isticQabalah , Agrat Bat Mahlat is one of the four angels ofprostitution , the mates of the demonSamael . Her fellow succubi areLilith , Naamah, andEisheth Zenunim . Considering Mahlat and Agrat as proper names and bat as "daughter of" (Hebrew), Agrat bat Mahlat means 'Agrat daughter of Mahlat'. Sometimes Agrat is used alone, or with variations (Agrath, Igrat, Iggeret). Iggeret means in Hebrew 'letter or missive' while 'agrah' means 'reward'. Mahathallah, probably the correct spelling of Mahlat means in Hebrew 'deception' or 'illusion'. Therefore, Agrat bat Mahlat could be translated as Agrat 'daughter of illusions', 'bringer of deception' or 'reward for deception'These four angels are also known as the Queens of Hell or the spouses of Satan, and some authors as Donald Tyson refer to them as manifestations of Lilith. Agrat Bat Mahlat rules
Salamanca (western quarter), Naamah rulesDamascus (eastern quarter), while Lilith rulesRome (northern quarter). The southern quarter is controversial, since it is assigned to a country (Egypt ) instead of to a city, and the name of the ruler is unclear, usually identified as Mahalat (the mother of Agrat?) orRahab instead of Eisheth.References
*Sexual Alchemy: magical intercourse with spirits, Daniel Tyson, Llewellyn Worldwide Ed. (page 39)
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