Demonic · Goetic Spirit · c. 1577 CE
Amon
Also called Aamon, Nahum
This marquis of the Ars Goetia procures feuds between friends and then reconciles the quarrels he started, which is the whole of his office and runs in both directions at once. He comes as a flame-vomiting wolf with a serpent's tail, or else as a man with a raven's head.
Single lineage
Form. A wolf with a serpent's tail vomiting flame, or a man with a raven's head.
Offices. Tells all things past and to come, procures feuds and reconciles controversies between friends.
Identity
Where does the name come from?
Where it was actually worshipped
None. The Ars Goetia is a conjuring manual and not a liturgy: its spirits are constrained, put to work and dismissed, never housed or offered to. Not one of the seventy-two has a temple, a shrine, a festival or a place-name anywhere.
A figure with temples and a figure that only ever existed on a page are different kinds of thing, and the difference is easy to lose once both are entries in a list.
At a glance
Vitals
Vitals
Also known as
- First attested
- Pseudomonarchia Daemonum · 1577
- Rank
- Marquis
- Order
- Goetic Spirit
- Base of operations
- None. The Ars Goetia is a conjuring manual and not a liturgy: its spirits are constrained, put to work and dismissed, never housed or offered to. Not one of the seventy-two has a temple, a shrine, a festival or a place-name anywhere.
- Era
- c. 1577 CE
- Traditions
- Solomonic, Folk & Demonological
- Placed in
- Ranks of the Seventy-Two
Traits
- Traditional form
- A wolf with a serpent's tail vomiting flame, or a man with a raven's head.
- Goetic rank
- Marquis
Stats
4 attributed
What is it said to do?
Where these powers cluster
The 4 offices attributed to Amon, grouped by kind. Segment width is the share of powers falling in each category.
A bar dominated by one colour means a specialist; an even spread means a figure the sources credit with almost anything.
- divination1
- social2
- martial1
One plate
Does it have a seal?
This is the engraved shape from the 1904 Mathers and Crowley printing of the Ars Goetia, which is long out of copyright. It is not a manuscript drawing: the Lemegeton witnesses — Sloane 2731, Sloane 3648, Harley 6483 — carry hand-drawn seals that differ in line and sometimes in detail, and none of those are held here. The seals also arrive some seventy years after the list of spirits itself, so a seal is evidence about the printed tradition rather than about the figure.
It is reproduced as an object of study. What the text says such a seal was for is described in the sources below; this site does not carry the procedure for using one.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers & Aleister Crowley (1904 edition) · Public domain · 07-amon-sigilo-ars-goetia.svg
1 mark
Which marks is it attached to?
A mark a figure carries and a mark used against a figure are opposite claims, so each link says which it is.
2 texts
Which texts say so, and where do they disagree?
When these texts were written
Each dot is one of the 2 texts that names Amon, placed at that text's approximate date.
A wide spread means the figure was carried across many centuries and traditions; a tight cluster means a single period produced the whole record.
2 texts spanning roughly 327 years
Where the texts differ
- Rank: given as Marquis; The Marquis
- Position in list: 5, 7 depending on the text
Weyer lists this spirit 5th of his sixty-nine, with substantially the same offices. His order is not the Goetia's — the two texts arrange the same spirits quite differently.
Tells all things past and to come, procures feuds and reconciles controversies between friends.
“The Seventh Spirit is Amon. He is a Marquis great in power, and most stern.”
Connections
What is it connected to?
Nothing, and that is what the source says. The Ars Goetia gives Amon a rank, a number of legions, a list of offices and a seal, and no relationship to any other spirit in the book — no lineage, no faction, no quarrel. Sixty-seven of the seventy-two are in the same position. A catalogue of self-contained entries is what that text is, and the emptiness here is the shape of it rather than work outstanding.
Placement
Where does it sit in the hierarchies?
Answered from the sources
Common questions
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Nearest in the corpus
If Amon is what you came for, these are next
Chosen by proximity rather than by popularity: the same pantheon first, then the same rank, then the same kind of figure.
Andras
Marquis · Goetic Spirit
Marked in the Goetia as dangerous to the operator himself, which almost nothing else in the book is: handle him carelessly, the text says, and he will kill the man who called him along with his assistants. He arrives raven-headed on a black wolf with a drawn sword.
Andrealphus
Marquis · Goetic Spirit
Teaches geometry and every kind of measurement exactly, makes men subtle in astronomy, and turns them into birds. He announces himself as a peacock making a great deal of noise, and is ranked marquis in the Ars Goetia.
Cimejes
Marquis · Goetic Spirit
Given a territory rather than a subject: the Goetia has him ruling every spirit in Africa. He also teaches grammar, logic and rhetoric, finds lost and hidden treasure, and makes men valiant in war.
Decarabia
Marquis · Goetic Spirit
Appears first as a star inside a pentacle. His office is birds — their virtues and those of precious stones, and the trick of making them fly before the operator and stay, singing and drinking exactly as real ones do.
Forneus
Marquis · Goetic Spirit
His gifts are entirely social: languages, rhetoric, a good reputation, and the affection of enemies as readily as friends. The Ars Goetia makes this marquis a great sea-monster, which fits none of it.
Leraje
Marquis · Goetic Spirit
An archer dressed in green with bow and quiver, ranked marquis among the demons of the Ars Goetia, who starts battles and contests. He is also given one precise and nasty speciality: making wounds from arrows go septic.
The books behind Amon
Every claim on this profile is attributed to one of these. They are public domain, listed oldest first, and each links to a full text where one is freely available.
Pseudomonarchia Daemonum
Johann Weyer · 1577 · Latin
Read Pseudomonarchia Daemonum in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Pieter Holsteyn II · Wikimedia file page
The Lesser Key of Solomon, Book I: Ars Goetia
Anonymous; ed. S. L. MacGregor Mathers & A. E. Waite · 17th c.; ed. 1904 · English (from Latin)
Read The Lesser Key of Solomon, Book I: Ars Goetia in full ↗Cover: Public domain · anonymous design, redrawn by User:Fuzzypeg · Wikimedia file page
Corpus last revised 29 August 2026. A reference site’s credibility rests on being maintained, so this is the date the sourced records last changed — not the date the page was rebuilt.