Adramelech
Alternatively Adrammelech, Adramelek, Adar-malik, and Adramelechk.
A demon said to be worshipped at Sepharvaim, an Assyrian town, where children were burned on his altar. It was usually characterized under the shape of a mule, or sometimes, of a peacock.
Other demonologists claimed that he was a combination of both, with a mule head, a human torso and a peacock feather tail, because besides being though of as a very stubborn demon, Adramelech supposedly displayed great pride in his position as the lord chancellor of Hell, 'Keeper of the Wardrobe of the Demon King' and president of Satan's private council, the High Council of the Devils. Some other demonologists also described him as a winged and bearded lion.
Other titles allegedly held by the infernal lord Adramalech included great minister and chancellor of the Order of the Fly, an exclusive club founded by the notorious Beelzebub, and 'King of Fire'. He is the enemy of God, greater in malice, guile, ambition and mischief than Satan, a fiend more curst, a deeper hypocrite.
Adramelech has been linked to the angel Asmadai, mentioned in Miltons Paradise Lost as one of the potent thrones. Milton also referred to Adramelech as an Assyrian idol and as an angel defeated by Uriel and Raphael. In addition, he appears in The History of Magic, pictured as a horse, and has been equated with the Babylonian god Anu, and with the Ammonite Moloch, or Molech, whose worship also involved the burning of children.
Adramelech is mentioned twice in the Old Testament as well, first as a son of the Assyrian King Sennacharib along with Sharezer, who murdered their father while he was worshiping in the temple of his idol, Nisrach. The second mention is in the context of his worship by the Sepharvites:
"the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire as sacrifices to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim." - 2 Kings 17:31.
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Sources: (1) Masello, Robert, Fallen Angels. . . and Spirits of the Dark, The Berkley Publishing Group; (2) Spence, Lewis, An Encyclopedia of Occultism, Carol Publishing Group; (3) de Plancy, Collin, Dictionnaire Infernal, Editions; (4) Wier, Johann, De Praestigiis Daemonum, Pegasus; (5) Mathers, S. Liddell MacGregor, The Goetia, The Key of Solomon the King, The Book Tree; (6) Milton, John, Paradise Lost; (7) Lewis, James R., Angels A to Z, Visible Ink Press.
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