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Teaches the Liberal Sciences
Instruction in the trivium and quadrivium — the standard grimoire promise of learning without study.
Held by
- Infernal24
- Disputed9
- Fallen3
- Celestial3
Attributed across 6 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.
Allocer
Amy
Andrealphus
Apollo
Greek
Araqiel
Armaros
Asmoday
Astaroth
Athena
Greek
Bifrons
Buer
Cimejes
Crocell
Dantalion
Foras
Furcas
Gaap
Glasya-Labolas
Haagenti
Harut and Marut
Heka
Egyptian
Hermes
Greek
Jophiel
Lugh
Celtic
Marax
Metatron
Murmur
Naberius
Ose
Paimon
Penemue
Phenex
Quetzalcoatl
Mesoamerican
Ravana
Vedic
Raziel
Samigina
Thoth
Egyptian
Vapula
Zagan
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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Theogony & Works and Days
Hesiod · c. 700 BCE · Ancient Greek
Read Theogony & Works and Days in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Hesiod · Wikimedia file page
Ramayana
Valmiki; tr. Ralph T. H. Griffith · c. 500-100 BCE · Sanskrit
Read Ramayana in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Scribes and painters employed by the Kingdom of Mewar · 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
Qur'an & Hadith
Various · 7th c. CE onward · Arabic
Read Qur'an & Hadith in full ↗Cover: Public domain · AnonymousUnknown author · 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
Patristic & Medieval Angelology
Gregory the Great, Aquinas, and others · 6th-13th c. · Latin
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Florentine Codex
Bernardino de Sahagún with Nahua informants · 1545-1590 · Nahuatl and Spanish
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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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