Asmodeus, Asmodai

"A king of demons in the legends of Solomon and the constructing of Solomon's Temple. His story features variously in Talmudic stories where he is the king of the shedim. The Quran refers to a 'puppet' in the Story of Solomon in Surah Ṣād verses 30-40, which is according to the mufassirūn (authorized exegetes of the Quran) referring to the demon-king Asmodeus (Sakhr). In Christian lore, Asmodeus is mostly known from the deuterocanonical Book of Tobit. He is the primary antagonist and disrupts the marriages of Sarah. Peter Binsfeld classifies Asmodeus as the 'demon of lust'." [Asmodeus, Wikipedia, ret. 07/14/2024]

Edgar Gordon dreamed of the Dark One looking like Asmodeus—black all over, and furry, with green eyes, hog-snout, and the claws and fangs of some wild beast. When Edgar Gordon was incarnated by the Dark One, he also looked like Asmodeus. [RB Demon]

In mediaeval times, Nyarlathotep was regarded as the Black Man of the witch-cult, the emissary of Asmodeus and darker gods. [RB Faceless]

Phillips Keith identified Asmodeus as a synonym for Satan, the archetype of evil. [RB Hell (online text)]

Azédarac entertained in privity the foulnesses that are older than Asmodai. [CAS Holiness (online text)]

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