Causes Tempests

The texts that attribute this power

Oldest first. An office claimed by one late grimoire and an office claimed across two thousand years are different kinds of claim.

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  The Egyptian Book of the Dead

  Anonymous; tr. E. A. Wallis Budge · c. 1550 BCE onward · Egyptian

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  Cover: Public domain · Hunefer · Wikimedia file page

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  Rigveda

  Anonymous; multiple rishi families · c. 1500-1200 BCE · Vedic Sanskrit

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  Cover: Public domain · Unknown author · Wikimedia file page

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  The Baal Cycle (Ugaritic Tablets)

  Anonymous; recovered at Ras Shamra · c. 1400-1200 BCE · Ugaritic

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  Cover: CC BY-SA 3.0 · Unknown artist · Wikimedia file page

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  The Myth of Anzu

  Anonymous Akkadian · c. 1500-1000 BCE · Akkadian

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  Cover: Public domain · editor Austen Henry Layard , drawing by L. Gruner · Wikimedia file page

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  Enuma Elish

  Anonymous Babylonian · c. 1100 BCE · Akkadian

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  Cover: Public domain · editor Austen Henry Layard , drawing by L. Gruner · Wikimedia file page

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  Akkadian Incantation Series & Amulet Inscriptions

  Anonymous; recovered from Assyrian and Babylonian sites · c. 1800-600 BCE · Akkadian and Sumerian

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  Cover: Public domain · Robert William Rogers (1864–1930) · Wikimedia file page

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  The Avesta

  Attributed to Zarathustra and later priests · c. 1000-400 BCE · Avestan

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  Cover: CC0 · Daderot · Wikimedia file page

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  Theogony & Works and Days

  Hesiod · c. 700 BCE · Ancient Greek

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  Cover: Public domain · Hesiod · Wikimedia file page

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  Hebrew Bible & Deuterocanon

  Various · c. 900–100 BCE · Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek

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  Cover: Public domain · see en:Aleppo Codex; scanned by · Wikimedia file page

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  1 Enoch (The Book of Enoch)

  Anonymous; tr. R. H. Charles · c. 300–100 BCE · Ge'ez (from Aramaic)

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  Cover: Public domain · Wikimedia file page

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  Shanhaijing (Classic of Mountains and Seas)

  Anonymous · 4th c. BCE - 2nd c. CE · Classical Chinese

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  Cover: Public domain · National Library of China · Wikimedia file page

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  New Testament

  Various · c. 50–110 CE · Koine Greek

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  Cover: Public domain · Wikimedia file page

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  Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters)

  Ō no Yasumaro · 712 CE · Old Japanese

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  Cover: Public domain · Wikimedia file page

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  Lebor Gabála Érenn & the Mythological Cycle

  Anonymous Irish monastics · 11th c., from older oral material · Middle Irish

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  Cover: Public domain · Áed Ua Crimthainn et al (12th century) · Wikimedia file page

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  The Primary Chronicle & Slavic Folk Record

  Attributed to Nestor and later compilers · c. 1113, describing earlier practice · Old East Slavic

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  Cover: Public domain · from the Middle Ages, unknown · Wikimedia file page

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  The Poetic Edda

  Anonymous; compiled in Iceland · 13th c., from older oral material · Old Norse

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  Cover: Public domain · The Elder or Poetic Edda; commonly known as Sæmund's Edda. Edited and translated with… · Wikimedia file page

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  Florentine Codex

  Bernardino de Sahagún with Nahua informants · 1545-1590 · Nahuatl and Spanish

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  Cover: Public domain · Bernardino de Sahagún · Wikimedia file page

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  The Odu Ifá

  Oral; transmitted by babalawo · Oral tradition, first transcribed 19th-20th c. · Yoruba

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  Cover: Public domain · Toluaye · Wikimedia file page

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  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)

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  Cover: Public domain · anonymous design, redrawn by User:Fuzzypeg · Wikimedia file page