Grants Victory in War

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)

  c. 2100 BCE

  Lugal-e (Ninurta and the Asag)

  Anonymous; Sumerian composition · c. 2100 BCE · Sumerian

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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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  Egyptian Hymns, Stelae & Temple Inscriptions

  Various; tr. E. A. Wallis Budge and others · c. 2000 BCE - 300 BCE · Egyptian

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  Cover: Public domain · Jean-Pierre Dalbéra from Paris, France · Wikimedia file page

• The Epic of Gilgamesh

  c. 1200 BCE, from older Sumerian material

  The Epic of Gilgamesh

  Standard Babylonian version, attributed to Sin-leqi-unninni · c. 1200 BCE, from older Sumerian material · Akkadian

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• The Contendings of Horus and Set

  c. 1160 BCE

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

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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

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  Cover: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Gennadii Saus i Segura · 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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  The Histories, Book II

  Herodotus; tr. G. C. Macaulay · c. 430 BCE · Ancient Greek

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  Cover: Public domain · Unknown · 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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  Ramayana

  Valmiki; tr. Ralph T. H. Griffith · c. 500-100 BCE · Sanskrit

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  Cover: Public domain · Scribes and painters employed by the Kingdom of Mewar · Wikimedia file page

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  Fasti

  Ovid · c. 8 CE · Latin

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  Cover: Public domain · Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 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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  Devi Mahatmya

  Anonymous; part of the Markandeya Purana · c. 400-600 CE · Sanskrit

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  Cover: Public domain · Image: Gallery: archive copy at the Wayback Machine · 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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  Renaissance & Early-Modern Occult Angelology

  Agrippa, Barrett, and their compilers · 16th-19th c. · Latin and English

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  Cover: Public domain · Otto Rietmann · 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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  Paradise Lost

  John Milton · 1667 · English

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  Cover: Public domain · John Milton · 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