There's a whole section about Solomon's reputed dealings with demons in the Wikipedia entry on him, I believe.
There's something about the 72 bright spirits of the Shemhamphorash having an inner relationship to his power over the goetic spirits... the word Goetia has a fascinating history excavated by historian Sarah Iles Johnston; it goes back to goes, a shamanic figure in archaic Greece with the power to call spirits back to this plane through singing.
I've been meaning for years now to read up on all this lore... it gets very complicated because some of this sources, such as the rabbinical exegeses collected in the Mishnah, have very complex histories in and of themselves.
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Date: 2010-08-11 04:40 pm (UTC)There's something about the 72 bright spirits of the Shemhamphorash having an inner relationship to his power over the goetic spirits... the word Goetia has a fascinating history excavated by historian Sarah Iles Johnston; it goes back to goes, a shamanic figure in archaic Greece with the power to call spirits back to this plane through singing.
I've been meaning for years now to read up on all this lore... it gets very complicated because some of this sources, such as the rabbinical exegeses collected in the Mishnah, have very complex histories in and of themselves.