Generational Demons and Purposes
These demons are listed in alphabetical order, with their purpose and/or their origin.
A
ABADDON - (Hebrew) the angel of death or destruction
ADRAMELECH - Samarian devil
AHPUCH - Mayan devil
AHRIMAN - Mazdean devil
AMON - Egyptian ram-headed god of life and fertility
APOLLYON - Greek synonym for Satan, the arch-fiend
ASMODEUS - Hebrew devil of sensuality and luxury, originally "creature of judgement"
ASTAROTH - Phoenician goddess of lasciviousness, equivalent of Babylonian Ishtar
AZAZEL - (Hebrew) taught man to make weapons of war, later made a devil
B
BAALBERITH - Canaanite Lord of the Covenant who was later made a devil
BALAAM - Hebrew devil of avarice and greed
BAPHOMET - worshipped by the Templars as symbolic of Satan
BAST - Egyptian goddess of pleasure represented by the cat
BEELZEBUB - (Hebrew) Lord of the Flies, taken from symbolism of the scarab
BEHEMOTH - Hebrew personification of Satan in the form of an elephant
BEHERIT - Syrian name for Satan
BELIAL - (Hebrew) without a master, baseness of the earth, independence, the north
BILE - Celtic god of Hell
C
CHEMOSH - national god of Moabites, later a devil
CIMERIES - rides a black horse and rules Africa
COYOTE - American Indian devil
D
DAGON - Philistine avenging devil of the sea
DAMBALLA (also DWAMBALLAH) - Voodoo serpent god
DEMOGORGON - Greek name of the devil, it is said he should not be known to mortals
DIABOLUS - (Greek) "flowing downwards"
DRACULA - Romanian word for 'devil'
E
EMMA-O - Japanese ruler of Hell
EURONYMOUS - Greek prince of death
F
FENRIS - Viking son of Loki, depicted as a wolf
G
GORGO - dim. of Demogorgon, Greek name of the devil
H
HABORYM - Hebrew synonym of Satan
HECATE - Greek goddess of the underworld and witchcraft
I
ISHTAR - Babylonian goddess of fertility
J
K
KALI - (Hindu) daughter of Shiva (or Siva, the goddess of Destruction), high priestess of the Thuggees
L
LEVIATHAN - (Hebrew) the serpent out of the deeps, the sea, the west, symbolic of wisdom
LILITH - Hebrew female devil, Adam's first wife who taught him sexuality
LOKI - Viking devil
LUCIFER - (Roman) bringer of light, wisdom, the air, the morning star, the east. Counterpart to Druid goddess Diana