divination · 40 entities
Reveals Past, Present & Future
Full temporal knowledge. One of the two offices the Goetia hands out most often, behind teaching the liberal sciences.
Held by
- Infernal24
- Disputed10
- Fallen3
- Celestial3
Attributed across 9 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.
Amon
Apollo
Greek
Astaroth
Balam
Barbatos
Berith
Botis
Camio
Eligos
Eshu
Yoruba
Ezeqeel
Freyja
Norse
Furcas
Gabriel
Glasya-Labolas
Gremory
Gusion
Haures
Hecate
Greek
Ipos
Janus
Roman
Khonsu
Egyptian
Kokabiel
Odin
Norse
Orobas
Orunmila
Yoruba
Purson
Raum
Remiel
Samsapeel
Shamash
Mesopotamian
Tezcatlipoca
Mesoamerican
The Familiar Spirit
The Jezebel Spirit
The Lying Spirit
The Morrígan
Celtic
The Python Spirit
Uvall
Vassago
Vine
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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Egyptian Hymns, Stelae & Temple Inscriptions
Various; tr. E. A. Wallis Budge and others · c. 2000 BCE - 300 BCE · Egyptian
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Theogony & Works and Days
Hesiod · c. 700 BCE · Ancient Greek
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Hebrew Bible & Deuterocanon
Various · c. 900–100 BCE · Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek
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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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Fasti
Ovid · c. 8 CE · Latin
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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 Poetic Edda
Anonymous; compiled in Iceland · 13th c., from older oral material · Old Norse
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Florentine Codex
Bernardino de Sahagún with Nahua informants · 1545-1590 · Nahuatl and Spanish
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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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