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Adramelech - One of two angels linked with Asmadai. Adramelech is the 8th of the 10 archdemons; a great minister and chancellor of the Order of the Fly (Grand Cross), an order said to have been founded by Beelzebub. When conjured, Adramelech manifests in the form of a mule or a peacock. In II Kings 17:31, Adramelech is a god of the Sepharvite colony in Sumeria to whom children were sacrificed. He has been compared with the Babylonian Anu and the Ammonite Moloch. In Klopstock, The Messiah, Adramelech is "the enemy of God, greater in malice, guile, ambition, and mischief than Satan, a fiend more curst, a deeper hypocrite." (a) Adramelech: According to Wierius (q.v.) Chancellor of the infernal regions, Keeper of the Wardrobe of the Demon King, and President of the High Council of the Devils. He was worshipped at Sepharvaim, an Assyrian town, where children were burned on his altar. The rabbis say that he shows himself in the form of a mule, or sometimes a peacock. (b)
Adramelech, grand chancellor, was also the supervisor of Satan's wardrobe. Though he was chiefly a mule, part of his torso was human, and he had a peacock's tail. (c)
Adrammelech and Anammelech:
22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them; 23 Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day. 24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof. 25 And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of them. 26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land. 27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land. 28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD. 29 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt. 30 And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, 31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. (j)
Adramelech, "robe of the king" or "greatness or power of the king or the council," was an idol of Sepharvaim, which was a city of the Assyrians [2 Kings 17]. (w)
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Resource List - all entries are taken verbatim
from the original source: (a) Taken verbatim from "The Dictionary of Angels" by Gustav Davidson, © 1967. (b) Taken verbatim from "Encyclopaedia of Occultism" by Lewis Spence. ©1959 (c) "Fallen Angels...and Spirits of the Dark" by Robert Masello ©1994. (j) http://www.topical-bible-studies.org/default.htm (w) "Witches, Devils, and Doctors in the Renaissance. Johann Weyer, De praestigiis daemonum" General Editor: George Mora, M.D. Translated by: John Shea. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies. Binghamton, New York. ©1991 Original text written in 1583.
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