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1. Angels Angels & demons · angels_demons

   The lowest and closest order of angels: the messengers and guardians who walk beside individual people and places. The word angelos is 'messenger', and this is the choir that gives the whole order its name.

2. Archangels Angels & demons · angels_demons

   The order of angels that carries the great messages between the divine and the human. The named archangels (Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, and others) are the tradition's particular angels, while the choir is the rank they belong to in the Pseudo-Dionysian hierarchy.

3. The Father Archetypes · archetypes

   The Father is an archetype of authority, protection and law. Its light aspect is protection, provision and structure, and its shadow is tyranny, absence and rigidity.

4. The Great Mother Archetypes · archetypes

   The Great Mother is an archetype of nurturing, fertility and protection. Its light aspect is nurturing, protection and abundance, and its shadow is smothering, possessiveness and manipulation.

5. Haures Angels & demons · angels_demons
6. Michael Angels & demons · angels_demons

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7. The Mother Archetypes · archetypes

   The Mother is an archetype of nurturing, creation and sacrifice. Its light aspect is nurturing, creation and unconditional love, and its shadow is smothering, martyrdom and guilt.

8. Powers Angels & demons · angels_demons

   Second sphere warrior angels who fight against evil spirits. Border patrol between heaven and earth. Prevent demons from overthrowing the world. Some Powers fell with Lucifer.

9. Raphael Angels & demons · angels_demons

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10. The Warrior Archetypes · archetypes

    The Warrior is an archetype of strength, courage and discipline. Its light aspect is courage, discipline and protection, and its shadow is aggression, ruthlessness and violence.

11. Aditi Deities · deities

    Aditi is the Vedic goddess of the boundless - sky, space, freedom - and the mother of the Adityas, the class of gods that includes Varuna, Mitra and Aryaman. One Rig Veda hymn calls her sky, air, mother, father and son at once: the whole of what is, named as one open thing. She is asked for release from constraint and for protection.

12. Horus Deities · deities

    Egyptian falcon god, son of Osiris and Isis. Avenged his father's murder by Set. Lost eye in battle, which became powerful protective symbol. Won kingship through trial. Represents rightful sovereignty reclaimed, divine kingship, protection. Sky god whose eyes are sun and moon. Pharaohs as living Horus.

13. Ibeji Deities · deities

    Ibeji are the sacred twins of Yoruba tradition: twins are believed to be sacred and are granted protection by Shango, and the Yoruba country has one of the highest rates of twin births in the world. Taiwo is born first, but Kehinde sends him to test whether the world is fit before he follows, so Kehinde is reckoned the elder. If a twin dies, the parents have an ere ibeji carved and care for it as the living child, dressing and feeding it. In the diaspora they are syncretised with Saints Cosmas and Damian.

14. Medusa Deities · deities

    In Hesiod she is a Gorgon by birth, daughter of Phorcys and Ceto; in Ovid's later Roman telling she is a woman violated by Poseidon in Athena's temple and transformed by Athena into a monster—snake hair, gaze turns to stone. Killed by Perseus. Head used as protection (aegis). Later retellings reclaim her as victim who became weapon, whose monstrosity is power, whose gaze protects. Symbol on shields—protection through fear.

15. Nekhbet Deities · deities

    Nekhbet is the Egyptian vulture goddess of Upper Egypt, the White One, who with Wadjet the cobra forms the Two Ladies (nebty) of the pharaoh's titulary. She is a goddess of kingship and royal protection, shown as a white vulture hovering over the king with the shen ring of eternity, and she presides at royal births and coronations; her cult centre was Nekheb (el-Kab). The vulture goddesses of Egypt are Nekhbet and Mut; Ma'at's emblem is the ostrich feather, not the vulture.

16. Saint Patrick Saints · saints

    Patrick is taken as a slave to Ireland, escapes, and returns as a bishop. The Breastplate attributed to him is a lorica - a binding prayer for protection on a journey - and the driving out of the snakes is the later legend of the land being cleared.

17. Santa Muerte Deities · deities

    Santa Muerte is the Mexican folk saint of death, venerated from the mid-twentieth century and condemned by the Church, who is asked for protection, deliverance and justice by people with nowhere else to take it. She is death treated as an ally rather than an enemy.

18. Sopdu Deities · deities

    Sopdu is the falcon god of the sky and of the eastern border regions, 'Lord of the East', whose cult centred on Per-Sopdu in the Delta and whose protection was sought in the Sinai mining country; he is the husband of Khensit. He is attested from the Old Kingdom, and Middle and New Kingdom inscriptions in the eastern desert invoke him as the guardian of Egypt's frontier against the Asiatics. His name is close to, but not the same as, that of Sopdet (Sirius), the star goddess, with whom he is constantly confused in modern lists.

19. Abraxas Deities · deities

    Abraxas (Abrasax) is the name at the centre of the Basilidian system reported by Irenaeus (Against Heresies 1.24): the Greek letters of Abrasax sum to 365, the number of the days of the year and of the heavens in that system, so that the name is the name of the whole year and of the power that governs it. From the second century the name crowds the Graeco-Egyptian magical gems, engraved on amulets beside a cock-headed, serpent-legged figure with a whip and shield and invoked with IAO and Sabaoth as a protective name of power. Carl Jung took Abraxas up in the Seven Sermons to the Dead (1916) as the god beyond good and evil, and through Hermann Hesse's Demian the figure entered modern occultism.

20. Saint Agatha Saints · saints

    A third-century martyr of Catania, whose legend includes the torture of her breasts and her survival of a fire. She is one of the seven women of the Roman Canon.

21. Ahi Assessors of Ma’at · assessors_of_maat

    Ahi is the 36th of the forty-two assessors of Maat, titled “the one who came forth from Nu (the abyss)”. The confession is “I have never raised my voice”.

22. Am-khaibit Assessors of Ma’at · assessors_of_maat

    Am-khaibit is the 4th of the forty-two assessors of Maat, titled “the one who came forth from Qernet”. The confession is “I have not slain men and women”.

23. An-af Assessors of Ma’at · assessors_of_maat

    An-af is the 41st of the forty-two assessors of Maat, titled “the one who came forth from the Two Truths (Maati)”. The confession is “I have not snatched away the bread of the child, nor treated with contempt the god of my city”.

24. An-hetep-f Assessors of Ma’at · assessors_of_maat

    An-hetep-f is the 28th of the forty-two assessors of Maat, titled “the one who came forth from Sais (Sau)”. The confession is “I am not a man of violence”.

25. Anahita Deities · deities

    Aredvi Sura Anahita is the great yazata of the waters, praised at length in Yasht 5 of the Avesta (the Aban Yasht) as a strong, undefiled and healing power who drives a chariot drawn by four horses - wind, rain, cloud and sleet - and grants boons to those who worship her. She is invoked with Ahura Mazda and Mithra in the inscriptions of Artaxerxes II (4th century BCE), and her temple cult is attested at Istakhr, while Strabo describes her shrines in Cappadocia and Armenia. Hellenistic writers identified her with Artemis (Artemis Persike), and later Persian usage names the planet Venus after her as Nahid.

26. Saint Anne Saints · saints

    The mother of Mary and the grandmother of Jesus, named in the apocryphal Protoevangelium of James rather than in the canonical Gospels. Her cult is ancient in the East and widespread in the West.

27. Anubis Deities · deities

    Egyptian jackal-headed god of death, mummification, afterlife. Guards tombs and cemeteries. Guides souls to judgment, weighs hearts against Ma'at's feather. Protector of the dead. Opened the way between worlds. Associated with embalming, preservation, proper burial. Later merged with Hermes as Hermanubis.

28. Ares Deities · deities

    Ares is the Greek god of war in its blood, noise and madness rather than its strategy — Athena's opposite number. He is the father of Fear and Terror, loved by Aphrodite, and disliked by nearly everyone else on Olympus, which is itself the point about how war was regarded.

29. Arfi-em-khet Assessors of Ma’at · assessors_of_maat

    Arfi-em-khet is the 7th of the forty-two assessors of Maat, titled “the one who came forth from Asyut (Suat)”. The confession is “I have not stolen the property of God”.

30. Ari-em-ab-f Assessors of Ma’at · assessors_of_maat

    Ari-em-ab-f is the 35th of the forty-two assessors of Maat, titled “the one who came forth from Tebu (Tjebu)”. The confession is “I have never stopped the flow of water”.

31. Armaros Angels & demons · angels_demons
32. Artemis Deities · deities

    Greek virgin goddess of hunt, wilderness, moon, childbirth. Protector of young women. Fiercely independent, never married. Punishes those who violate sacred boundaries. Both gentle (childbirth) and fierce (hunter). Autonomy as sacred.

33. Astaroth Angels & demons · angels_demons
34. Athena Deities · deities

    Greek goddess born fully formed from Zeus's head. Goddess of wisdom, strategic warfare (not bloodlust), crafts, justice. Protector of Athens. Virgin goddess by choice. Represents sovereignty through intellect, defense over aggression, strategic thinking as power. Wisdom embodied, civilization protected through planning.

35. Avalokiteshvara Deities · deities

    Avalokiteshvara, 'the lord who looks down with compassion', is the great bodhisattva of compassion of the Mahayana, and the twenty-fifth chapter of the Lotus Sutra — the Universal Gateway — is his chapter, setting out the thirty-three forms in which he appears to whatever being needs him. The Karandavyuha Sutra gives the mantra om mani padme hum and the six-syllable scheme that maps the syllables onto the six realms, and it places him in attendance on Amitabha, whose image he carries in his crown. His eleven-headed and thousand-armed forms arise in the Nilakantha and related tantras from the story that his head split with grief at the suffering he saw and Amitabha gave him eleven, and that the thousand arms with an eye in each palm grew from his resolve to reach every being at once. In Tibet he is Chenrezig, patron of the country and source of the Dalai Lama lineage; in China and Japan the same figure is venerated in a feminine form, Guanyin and Kannon.

36. Badb Deities · deities

    Badb is the battle-crow of early Irish literature: in Cath Maige Tuired and Táin Bó Cúailnge she is one of the Morrígna, named with Macha and Nemain (or Anand, depending on the text), and Cormac's Glossary glosses badb simply as 'crow'. She is a battle-fury who brings panic and confusion to armies, a prophet of the slaughter, and she haunts the fords where a woman washes the harness of those about to die. A gloss in the Yellow Book of Lecan calls Mesrad Machae, 'the mast of Macha', the heads of slaughtered men, and describes the trio as raven-women who incite battle.

37. Bael Angels & demons · angels_demons
38. Bagalamukhi Deities · deities

    Bagalamukhi is the eighth Mahavidya, the golden goddess of stambhana - the power to stop, paralyse and silence - shown holding a club and the tongue of a demon. Her name is glossed as 'she whose face is that of a crane' (baka), though the standard tantric image is a human golden face; the crane-headed figures are a later iconographic drift. Her chief living shrine is at Nalkheda in Madhya Pradesh, and she is invoked against enemies and litigation.

39. Baihu Deities · deities

    Baihu is the White Tiger of the West, one of the four celestial animals, with the west as its quarter, autumn as its season, metal as its phase and white as its colour. Its mansion group is the western twenty-eight of the lunar mansions, and the tiger tally (hu fu) was the imperial instrument of military authority. In Daoist cosmology it is Jian Bing, one of the four directional guardians; unlike the dragon it carries a long martial and administrative charge rather than a body of myth.

40. Saint Barbara Saints · saints

    A third-century martyr of Heliopolis, according to a legend that is historically thin. Her association with lightning and fire comes from the legend of her father's death by lightning, and it made her the patron of miners and artillerymen.

41. Bastet Deities · deities

    Egyptian goddess originally fierce lioness (Sekhmet aspect), evolved to domestic cat. Protector of home, pregnant women, children. Goddess of joy, music, dance, sexuality. Gentle and playful but becomes fierce lioness when protecting what she loves. Eye of Ra. Associated with perfume and ointments.

42. Basti Assessors of Ma’at · assessors_of_maat

    Basti is the 13th of the forty-two assessors of Maat, titled “the one who came forth from Bubastis (Bast)”. The confession is “I have not eaten the heart”.

43. Beleth Angels & demons · angels_demons
44. Belial Angels & demons · angels_demons
45. Saint Benedict of Nursia Saints · saints

    The sixth-century founder of Monte Cassino and the author of the Rule that shaped Western monasticism. The medal and the medal's exorcism are later devotional developments attached to his name.

46. Bes Deities · deities

    Bes is the dwarf god of the Egyptian household - apotropaic protector of mothers, children and sleepers, and patron of music, dance and sexual pleasure. He has no myth cycle and no temple: his power is in the image, and his full-face, ithyphallic figure appears on headrests, mirrors, feeding cups and magical wands, as tattoos on dancers, and in the birth chambers. He is shown with a lion's mane and a knife, tongue out, frightening off the spirits that threaten a house.

47. Bhuvaneshvari Deities · deities

    Bhuvaneshvari is the fourth of the ten Mahavidyas, and her name simply means 'queen of the worlds' (bhuvana-ishvari). She has little narrative of her own: the tantras give her the rule of the fourteen worlds, the noose and goad that are sovereignty, and maya as her power of appearance. The Lalita Sahasranama praises her among the names of the one Devi, and she is the benign, world-shaped counterpart to the fierce Mahavidyas.

48. Caishen Deities · deities

    Caishen is a title more than a single god. The martial wealth god is Zhao Gongming, a Daoist marshal of the Dark Altar (Xuantan) with origins in plague-quelling, who was folded into the Ming novel Fengshen Yanyi and given the four attendants who make up the Five Directions of Wealth; the civil wealth god is usually Bi Gan, the loyal minister of the Shang, or Fan Li, the strategist who retired rich. He is welcomed on the fifth day of the first lunar month, when shops reopen, and his image stands at the counter with a black tiger and a heap of ingots.

49. Cardea Deities · deities

    Cardea is the Roman goddess of thresholds and hinges, who protects the doorway and, in Ovid, the cradle — the power that decides what crosses. Her rites used hawthorn and beans, and her festival was the first of June.

50. Cassiel Angels & demons · angels_demons

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51. Cherubim Angels & demons · angels_demons

    Second highest order, guardians of divine glory and sacred spaces. Four-faced beings (human, lion, ox, eagle) with four wings. Guard Garden of Eden with flaming sword. Represent divine knowledge and wisdom.

52. Saint Christopher Saints · saints

    A martyr of the third or fourth century, of whom almost nothing historical is known. The legend of the giant who carried the Christ child across a river is medieval and gives him his name and his patronage of travelers.

53. Saint Cyprian of Antioch Saints · saints

    A third-century bishop of Antioch who, according to his legend, was a magician before his conversion and burned his books when he became a Christian. He is not the same person as Cyprian of Carthage, the theologian and martyr. His Acts are legendary in their detail; the conversion from magic is the core the tradition remembers.

54. The Dagda Deities · deities

    The Dagda is the Irish father of the gods, owner of the club that kills and revives, the cauldron that never empties, and the oak harp that orders the seasons. He is mocked in the stories and indispensable in them: the king who is also the host, the provider and the buffoon.

55. Diana Deities · deities

    Roman goddess of the hunt and moon, equivalent to Greek Artemis. Virgin goddess who chose independence over marriage, protector of women and children. Leader of her nymphs, fierce huntress, and lunar deity. Known for protecting the vulnerable while punishing those who violate sacred boundaries. More accessible and protective than darker lunar deities, making her excellent for RHP (Right Hand Path) lunar work.

56. Djin Elemental kings · elemental_kings
57. Domovoi Deities · deities

    The domovoi is the household spirit of Slavic folk belief, 'the one of the house', who lives behind the stove or under the threshold and is counted as the founding ancestor of the kin; the folklorist Kagarov read him as a miniature Rod. He is known from 19th-century ethnographic collection (Dal, Afanasyev) rather than from any medieval text, and he has a female counterpart, the domania, with cousins in the dvorovoi (yard), bannik (bathhouse) and kikimora. He is a spirit of one household, not a god of a pantheon: no temple, no priesthood, and no proper name of his own.

58. Doumu Deities · deities

    Doumu, the Mother of the Dipper, is the Daoist goddess of the Big Dipper and of the nine stars that compose it — the seven visible and two hidden — and she holds the register of life and death that the Dipper governs. Her cult is attested from the Tang and Song, and she has a fixed place in Daoist liturgy, where the Dipper rites are among the most widely performed; she is identified with the Buddhist Marici (Molizhitian), and the boar-faced, boar-riding iconography belongs to that shared form. In Southeast Asia her devotion is bound up with the Nine Emperor Gods festival, which takes the ninth lunar month and keeps a vegetarian observance.

59. Durga Deities · deities

    Hindu warrior goddess created by male gods to defeat demon Mahishasura who couldn't be killed by man. Rides tiger, wields weapons from all gods. Protector of cosmos, destroyer of demons. Fierce mother energy—protective, powerful, unstoppable. Represents that feminine power can be warrior, that mothers protect fiercely.

60. Saint Dymphna Saints · saints

    A seventh-century Irish princess, according to a legend of uncertain history, who fled her father and was martyred at Gheel in Belgium. The town became a centre for the care of the mentally ill, and the devotion grew from that.

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