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"Belial" is the theme held in meditation by Vaughn Benjamin (the vocalist of Akae Beka) on the Midnite & Ras L Collaborative album Thru & True (2006). Belial is referenced, among other demons, on Mayhem's 2014 studio album Esoteric Warfare. Belial is mentioned in "Pandaemon," the fourth track on the LP. Lord Belial is a Swedish black metal band.
The Testament of Solomon is a pseudepigraphical work, purportedly written by King Solomon, in which the author mostly describes particular demons who he enslaved to help build the temple, the questions he put to them about their deeds and how they could be thwarted, and their answers, which provide a kind of self-help manual against demonic activity.
Belial is the name of one of the 'Seven Satans', a level of the hierarchy of the lowest layer of Hell, in the shōjo manga series Angel Sanctuary by Kaori Yuki. In the manga series Vassalord, it was revealed that Barry, an incubus with shape shifting abilities, is the demon Belial. Belial is a central character in the manga series Tarot Cafe.
Belial is thus another template for the later conception of the devil. [47] On the one hand, both Satan and belial cause hardship for humans, but while belial opposes God, represents chaos and death, and stands outside of God's cosmos, Satan, on the other hand, accuses what opposes God. Satan punishes what belial stands for. [47]
In demonology, sigils are pictorial signatures attributed to demons, angels, or other beings. In the ceremonial magic of the Middle Ages , sigils were used in the summoning of these beings and were the pictorial equivalent to their true name .
In some Abrahamic religions he is described as a major demon. The name Beelzebub is associated with the Canaanite god Baal. In theological sources, predominantly Christian, Beelzebub is another name for Satan. He is known in demonology as one of the seven deadly demons or seven princes of Hell, Beelzebub representing gluttony and envy.
He is believed to have been some sort of black magician, transformed into a vampire by Belial, the lieutenant demon of Satan. [5] Orlok dwells alone in a vast castle hidden among the rugged peaks in a lost corner of the Carpathian Mountains. The castle and its master, forgotten by the world for centuries, are swathed in shadows and exhibit a ...
The Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (lit. ' False Monarchy of Demons ') first appears as an appendix to De praestigiis daemonum (1577) by Johann Weyer. [1] An abridgment of a grimoire similar in nature to the Ars Goetia (first book of The Lesser Key of Solomon), it contains a list of demons, and the appropriate hours and rituals to conjure them.