knowledge · 19 entities
Teaches Handicrafts
Mechanical arts, trades and manual skill.
Held by
- Disputed10
- Infernal6
- Fallen2
- Celestial1
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.
Asmoday
Athena
Greek
Azazel
Swords, knives, shields and breastplates.
Belphegor
Brigid
Celtic
Enki
Mesopotamian
Gadreel
Khnum
Egyptian
Lugh
Celtic
Malphas
Marbas
Neith
Egyptian
Nüwa
Chinese
Obatala
Yoruba
Ogun
Yoruba
Penemue
Ptah
Egyptian
Vapula
Xaphan
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
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
Read Enuma Elish in full ↗Cover: Public domain · editor Austen Henry Layard , drawing by L. Gruner · 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
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
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
Dictionnaire Infernal
Jacques Collin de Plancy · 1818; illustrated ed. 1863 · French
Read Dictionnaire Infernal in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Collin de Plancy · 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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