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The Daimones vs Angels

These two are identified with one another in the record, which is not the same as being the same figure. Guardian spirits of individuals — the office the ninth choir inherits.

Deity · Greek · c. 700 BCE

The Daimones

also called Daemon, Daimon, Daimonai, Daimones, Daemones

Guardian spirits — Socrates had one that advised him — whose name the Greek scriptures borrowed for evil spirits, permanently poisoning the word.

Alignment
Disputed
Rank
Class of Spirits
First attested
The Iliad · c. 750 BCE
Named there as
daimōn
Texts naming it
4
Powers attributed
2
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Angelic · Third Sphere · c. 500 CE

Angels

also called Malakim, Angeloi, Ishim

The ninth and closest of the angelic choirs: the ordinary messengers who deal with individual people, and the only rank most human accounts ever describe meeting.

Alignment
Celestial
Rank
Ninth Choir
First attested
De Coelesti Hierarchia (The Celestial Hierarchy) · c. 500 CE
Named there as
Angels
Texts naming it
5
Powers attributed
2
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Where do they actually overlap?

Texts naming both

None. The two never appear in the same text in this corpus, which is worth knowing before accepting any confident claim that they are one figure.

Powers credited to both

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Common questions

Are The Daimones and Angels the same figure?

These two are identified with one another in the record, which is not the same as being the same figure. Guardian spirits of individuals — the office the ninth choir inherits. ColossiansOne records the link rather than asserting the identity: where texts disagree about whether two names denote one figure, the disagreement is what gets shown.

Which is older, The Daimones or Angels?

The Daimones is the older name: first attested around c. 700 BCE, against c. 500 CE for Angels. Where the two dates are far apart, that gap is the whole reason the pair is worth comparing.

Do any texts name both The Daimones and Angels?

No text in this corpus names both. That is not proof they were considered the same figure, but it is why the identification has to be traced through the scholarship rather than read off a page.
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