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Solomon's seal Talismanic scroll bearing Solomon's Seal, 11th-century Fatimid Caliphate. The Seal of Solomon or Ring of Solomon (Hebrew: חותם שלמה, Ḥotam Shlomo; Arabic: خاتم سليمان, Khātam Sulaymān) is the legendary signet ring attributed to king Solomon in medieval mystical traditions, from which it developed in parallel within Jewish mysticism, Islamic mysticism and ...
It was also used in 1852, in a retelling of the fable entitled "Solomon's Seal" by the English poet Edward FitzGerald. [4] [5] In it, a sultan requests of King Solomon a sentence that would always be true in good times or bad; Solomon responds, "This too will pass away". [6] On September 30, 1859, Abraham Lincoln recounted a similar story:
Seal of Solomon – Signet ring attributed to the Israelite king Solomon; Sigil of Baphomet – Official insignia of the Church of Satan; Sigillum Dei – Seal of God, or Seal of Truth, according to John Dee; Sympathetic magic – Type of magic based on imitation or correspondence; Veve – Religious symbol commonly used in different branches ...
Seal of Solomon, a legendary signet ring attributed to the Israelite king Solomon; Solomon's knot, two closed loops, which are doubly interlinked in an interlaced manner; Solomon's Seal motif, a white starlike flower
Asmodeus as depicted in Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal. Asmodeus (/ ˌ æ z m ə ˈ d iː ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἀσμοδαῖος, Asmodaios) or Ashmedai (/ ˈ æ ʃ m ɪ ˌ d aɪ /; Hebrew: אַשְמְדּאָי, romanized: ʾAšmədāy; Arabic: آشماداي; see below for other variations) is a king of demons in the legends of Solomon and the constructing of Solomon's Temple.
In 1095 B. C. Saul, the warrior-king assumed the reins of power in Israel; it was in 1063 that David, a man of blood, slew Goliath and soon thereafter that he was recognized as king over all Israel. At Solomon's death in 975 B.C. the kingdom was divided with Israel and Judah for hundreds of years thereafter engaging in wars with each other and ...
The Testament of Solomon is a pseudepigraphical composite text ascribed to King Solomon but not regarded as canonical scripture by Jews or Christian groups. It was written in the Greek language, based on precedents dating back to the early 1st millennium AD, but was likely not completed in any meaningful textual sense until sometime in the Middle Ages.
King Solomon's Ring may refer to: The Seal of Solomon, a legendary ring; King Solomon's Ring, a book by Konrad Lorenz "King Solomon's Ring" (short story), a short story by Roger Zelazny; The Ring of Solomon, a children's fantasy novel by Jonathan Stroud