divination · 17 entities
Discovers Hidden Things
Uncovers secrets, concealed objects and things done in private.
Held by
- Infernal12
- Celestial2
- Disputed2
- Fallen1
Attributed across 4 cultures
Which spirits are credited with it?
Each card names the texts that make the attribution. Where several texts credit the same figure with the same office, that is worth more than any one of them saying so alone.
Andromalius
Araqiel
Astaroth
Crocell
Dantalion
Eligos
Foras
Marbas
Orunmila
Yoruba
Purson
Raziel
Shamash
Mesopotamian
Shax
Varuna
Vedic
Vassago
Vine
Volac
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.
The Code of Hammurabi
Hammurabi of Babylon; tr. L. W. King · c. 1750 BCE · Akkadian
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Rigveda
Anonymous; multiple rishi families · c. 1500-1200 BCE · Vedic Sanskrit
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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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The Odu Ifá
Oral; transmitted by babalawo · Oral tradition, first transcribed 19th-20th c. · Yoruba
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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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