Adramelech (demon)
Depiction of Adramelech in the Dictionnaire Infernal of the Collin de Plancy .
In Christian demonology is Adramelech the dresser Satan . Sometimes he is also interpreted as the chancellor of the infernal regions, diabolical commander and chairman of the high council of devils. He is depicted as a hybrid of a human torso and a donkey .
Adramelech appears as the title of a poem by Friedrich Hölderlin and as a defeated devil figure in John Milton's Paradise Lost . There he is one of Satan's warriors who disappear after the battle for paradise.
Remarks
- ↑ Grant McColley: Paradise Lost : In: The Harvard Theological Review , Volume 32, No. 3 (July 1939), pp 181-235, p.196..
literature
- Helmut Freydank u. a .: Lexicon of the Old Orient. Egypt * India * China * Western Asia , VMA-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1997 ISBN 3-928127-40-3
- Brigitte Groneberg : The gods of the Mesopotamia. Cults, Myths, Epen , Artemis & Winkler, Stuttgart 2004 ISBN 3760823068