material · 13 entities
Grants Riches
Wealth, dignities and worldly estate.
Held by
- Disputed9
- Infernal4
Attributed across 7 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.
Belphegor
Bune
Dazhbog
Slavic
Freyja
Norse
Hades
Greek
Hapi
Egyptian
Mammon
Min
Egyptian
Pluto
Roman
Renenutet
Egyptian
Seere
The Dagda
Celtic
Veles
Slavic
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
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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
New Testament
Various · c. 50–110 CE · Koine Greek
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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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The Primary Chronicle & Slavic Folk Record
Attributed to Nestor and later compilers · c. 1113, describing earlier practice · Old East Slavic
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The Poetic Edda
Anonymous; compiled in Iceland · 13th c., from older oral material · Old Norse
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Dictionnaire Infernal
Jacques Collin de Plancy · 1818; illustrated ed. 1863 · French
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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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