material · 68 entities
Governs Nature
Holds office over an element, a season, a nation or a heavenly body.
Held by
- Disputed50
- Celestial10
- Infernal7
- Fallen1
Attributed across 15 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.
Agni
Vedic
Ahura Mazda
Persian
Amaterasu
Japanese
Amdusias
Amun
Egyptian
Apis
Egyptian
Artemis
Greek
Asherah
Aten
Egyptian
Atum
Egyptian
Baal Hadad
Canaanite
Behemoth
Chemosh
Canaanite
Cherubim
Crocell
Dagon
Canaanite
Dazhbog
Slavic
Decarabia
Dominions
El
Canaanite
Enkidu
Mesopotamian
He protects the animals from hunters before he is made human.
Ezeqeel
Focalor
Geb
Egyptian
Gonggong
Chinese
Hapi
Egyptian
Hathor
Egyptian
Heqet
Egyptian
Izanagi
Japanese
Izanami
Japanese
Khepri
Egyptian
Khnum
Egyptian
Khonsu
Egyptian
Ma'at
Egyptian
Marduk
Mesopotamian
Mars
Roman
Min
Egyptian
Nun
Egyptian
Nut
Egyptian
Nüwa
Chinese
Olodumare
Yoruba
Osiris
Egyptian
Persephone
Greek
Poseidon
Greek
Principalities
Ptah
Egyptian
Quetzalcoatl
Mesoamerican
Ra
Egyptian
Raguel
Renenutet
Egyptian
Sariel
Saturn
Roman
Shu
Egyptian
Sobek
Egyptian
Stribog
Slavic
Susanoo
Japanese
Tammuz
Tefnut
Egyptian
The Amesha Spentas
Persian
The Dagda
Celtic
The Naga
Buddhist
The Queen of Heaven
Tlaloc
Mesoamerican
Tsukuyomi
Japanese
Uriel
Varuna
Vedic
Vepar
Virtues
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 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
Egyptian Amulets & Domestic Objects
Anonymous; recovered from settlements and burials · c. 2000 BCE onward · Material evidence
Read Egyptian Amulets & Domestic Objects in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Roland Unger · 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
Read The Baal Cycle (Ugaritic Tablets) in full ↗Cover: CC BY-SA 3.0 · Unknown artist · Wikimedia file page
Egyptian Hymns, Stelae & Temple Inscriptions
Various; tr. E. A. Wallis Budge and others · c. 2000 BCE - 300 BCE · Egyptian
Read Egyptian Hymns, Stelae & Temple Inscriptions in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Jean-Pierre Dalbéra from Paris, France · Wikimedia file page
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Standard Babylonian version, attributed to Sin-leqi-unninni · c. 1200 BCE, from older Sumerian material · Akkadian
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Enuma Elish
Anonymous Babylonian · c. 1100 BCE · Akkadian
Read Enuma Elish in full ↗Cover: Public domain · editor Austen Henry Layard , drawing by L. Gruner · 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
The Shabaka Stone (Memphite Theology)
Anonymous; carved for Shabaka · c. 700 BCE, copying older material · Egyptian
Read The Shabaka Stone (Memphite Theology) in full ↗Cover: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Sanjay ach · 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 Histories, Book II
Herodotus; tr. G. C. Macaulay · c. 430 BCE · Ancient Greek
Read The Histories, Book II in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Unknown · 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
The Pali Canon
Anonymous; attributed to the Buddha and his disciples · c. 100 BCE, from oral tradition · Pali
Read The Pali Canon in full ↗Cover: CC0 · Faredoka · Wikimedia file page
Fasti
Ovid · c. 8 CE · Latin
Read Fasti in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · Wikimedia file page
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
Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters)
Ō no Yasumaro · 712 CE · Old Japanese
Read Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters) in full ↗Cover: Public domain · 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
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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