martial · 56 entities
Executes Judgment
Carries out sentence, punishment or destruction on command.
Held by
- Disputed40
- Celestial13
- Infernal3
Attributed across 14 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.
Abaddon
Ahura Mazda
Persian
Alastor
Ammit
Egyptian
Anat
Canaanite
Andromalius
Anubis
Egyptian
Atum
Egyptian
Balor
Celtic
Camael
Chemosh
Canaanite
El
Canaanite
Enlil
Mesopotamian
Ereshkigal
Mesopotamian
Fenrir
Norse
Gabriel
Horus
Egyptian
Huitzilopochtli
Mesoamerican
Israfil
Jezebel
Canaanite
Orders the killing of the prophets of the LORD.
Jophiel
Jupiter
Roman
Kali
Vedic
Ma'at
Egyptian
Michael
Mictlantecuhtli
Mesoamerican
Mithra
Persian
Munkar and Nakir
Neith
Egyptian
Ninurta
Mesopotamian
The fates assigned to the stones after the battle.
Nuada
Celtic
Ogun
Yoruba
Olodumare
Yoruba
Osiris
Egyptian
Persephone
Greek
Perun
Slavic
Ra
Egyptian
Raguel
Samael
Sariel
Saturn
Roman
Shamash
Mesopotamian
Shango
Yoruba
Tezcatlipoca
Mesoamerican
The Erinyes
Greek
The Forty-Two Assessors
Egyptian
The Gallu
Mesopotamian
The Ten Kings
Chinese
Thoth
Egyptian
Thrones
Uriel
Varuna
Vedic
Xiwangmu
Chinese
Yama
Vedic
Yanluo Wang
Chinese
Zeus
Greek
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.
Lugal-e (Ninurta and the Asag)
Anonymous; Sumerian composition · c. 2100 BCE · Sumerian
Read Lugal-e (Ninurta and the Asag) in full ↗The Descent of Inanna to the Netherworld
Anonymous; Sumerian composition · c. 1900 BCE, from older material · Sumerian
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The Code of Hammurabi
Hammurabi of Babylon; tr. L. W. King · c. 1750 BCE · Akkadian
Read The Code of Hammurabi in full ↗Cover: CC BY 3.0 · Mbzt · Wikimedia file page
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Anonymous; tr. E. A. Wallis Budge · c. 1550 BCE onward · Egyptian
Read The Egyptian Book of the Dead in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Hunefer · Wikimedia file page
Rigveda
Anonymous; multiple rishi families · c. 1500-1200 BCE · Vedic Sanskrit
Read Rigveda in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Unknown author · Wikimedia file page
The Baal Cycle (Ugaritic Tablets)
Anonymous; recovered at Ras Shamra · c. 1400-1200 BCE · Ugaritic
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The Contendings of Horus and Set
Anonymous; Chester Beatty Papyrus I · c. 1160 BCE · Egyptian
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Enuma Elish
Anonymous Babylonian · c. 1100 BCE · Akkadian
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The Descent of Ishtar to the Netherworld
Anonymous Akkadian; earlier Sumerian recension of Inanna · c. 1000 BCE, from older Sumerian material · Akkadian
Read The Descent of Ishtar to the Netherworld in full ↗Cover: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Gennadii Saus i Segura · Wikimedia file page
The Avesta
Attributed to Zarathustra and later priests · c. 1000-400 BCE · Avestan
Read The Avesta in full ↗Cover: CC0 · Daderot · Wikimedia file page
Theogony & Works and Days
Hesiod · c. 700 BCE · Ancient Greek
Read Theogony & Works and Days in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Hesiod · Wikimedia file page
The Oresteia
Aeschylus; tr. E. D. A. Morshead · 458 BCE · Ancient Greek
Read The Oresteia in full ↗Cover: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Zde · Wikimedia file page
Hebrew Bible & Deuterocanon
Various · c. 900–100 BCE · Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek
Read Hebrew Bible & Deuterocanon in full ↗Cover: Public domain · see en:Aleppo Codex; scanned by · Wikimedia file page
1 Enoch (The Book of Enoch)
Anonymous; tr. R. H. Charles · c. 300–100 BCE · Ge'ez (from Aramaic)
Read 1 Enoch (The Book of Enoch) in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Wikimedia file page
Shanhaijing (Classic of Mountains and Seas)
Anonymous · 4th c. BCE - 2nd c. CE · Classical Chinese
Read Shanhaijing (Classic of Mountains and Seas) in full ↗Cover: Public domain · National Library of China · Wikimedia file page
New Testament
Various · c. 50–110 CE · Koine Greek
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De Coelesti Hierarchia (The Celestial Hierarchy)
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite · c. 500 CE · Greek
Read De Coelesti Hierarchia (The Celestial Hierarchy) in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Unknown author · Wikimedia file page
Devi Mahatmya
Anonymous; part of the Markandeya Purana · c. 400-600 CE · Sanskrit
Read Devi Mahatmya in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Image: Gallery: archive copy at the Wayback Machine · Wikimedia file page
Qur'an & Hadith
Various · 7th c. CE onward · Arabic
Read Qur'an & Hadith in full ↗Cover: Public domain · AnonymousUnknown author · Wikimedia file page
The Scripture of the Ten Kings
Anonymous Chinese Buddhist · 9th-10th c. CE · Classical Chinese
Read The Scripture of the Ten Kings in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Jonathan D. Spence. God's Chinese Son. New York 1996. Page 40. Copied without permission from · Wikimedia file page
Lebor Gabála Érenn & the Mythological Cycle
Anonymous Irish monastics · 11th c., from older oral material · Middle Irish
Read Lebor Gabála Érenn & the Mythological Cycle in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Áed Ua Crimthainn et al (12th century) · Wikimedia file page
The Primary Chronicle & Slavic Folk Record
Attributed to Nestor and later compilers · c. 1113, describing earlier practice · Old East Slavic
Read The Primary Chronicle & Slavic Folk Record in full ↗Cover: Public domain · from the Middle Ages, unknown · Wikimedia file page
Patristic & Medieval Angelology
Gregory the Great, Aquinas, and others · 6th-13th c. · Latin
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The Poetic Edda
Anonymous; compiled in Iceland · 13th c., from older oral material · Old Norse
Read The Poetic Edda in full ↗Cover: Public domain · The Elder or Poetic Edda; commonly known as Sæmund's Edda. Edited and translated with… · Wikimedia file page
Renaissance & Early-Modern Occult Angelology
Agrippa, Barrett, and their compilers · 16th-19th c. · Latin and English
Read Renaissance & Early-Modern Occult Angelology in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Otto Rietmann · Wikimedia file page
Florentine Codex
Bernardino de Sahagún with Nahua informants · 1545-1590 · Nahuatl and Spanish
Read Florentine Codex in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Bernardino de Sahagún · Wikimedia file page
The Odu Ifá
Oral; transmitted by babalawo · Oral tradition, first transcribed 19th-20th c. · Yoruba
Read The Odu Ifá in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Toluaye · 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)
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