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Gods, goddesses and sacred beings from earlier religions that were subsequently reclassified as demons by competing traditions.
12 documented entities
Deities Later Demonized
Sepharvaite, biblical and later demonological traditions
Adrammelech was a deity named in the Hebrew Bible as worshipped by people from Sepharvaim after Assyrian resettlement, later recast by rival scripture, polemic and…
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Sepharvaite, biblical and later demonological traditions
Anammelech was a deity named with Adrammelech in the biblical account of Sepharvaite worship, later recast by rival scripture, polemic and demonology into a hostile…
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Phoenician, Canaanite, Ugaritic, Egyptian and wider Mediterranean traditions
Astarte was a major West Semitic goddess associated with kingship, sexuality, fertility, warfare and celestial power, later recast by rival scripture, polemic and demonology into…
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Ugaritic, Canaanite, Aramaean and wider ancient Near Eastern traditions
Baal Hadad was the West Semitic storm and kingship god, lord of thunder, rain, mountain and seasonal fertility, later recast by rival scripture, polemic and…
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Moabite, Midianite and biblical traditions
Baal Peor was a local Baal or divine lord associated with the mountain and sanctuary of Peor in Moabite territory, later recast by rival scripture,…
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Moabite and neighboring ancient Levantine traditions
Chemosh was the national and royal god of Moab, invoked for land, war, judgment and the restoration of territory, later recast by rival scripture, polemic…
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Eblaite, Mariote, Amorite, Syrian, Philistine and Mesopotamian traditions
Dagon was an ancient Syrian and Mesopotamian deity associated with grain, prosperity, kingship and regional divine ancestry, later recast by rival scripture, polemic and…
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Yoruba and Afro-Atlantic traditions
Eshu as Later Misidentified with the Devil is remembered as the historical process through which the Yoruba orisha Èṣù was mistranslated and demonized as Satan…
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Ammonite and biblical Levantine traditions
Milcom was the national or royal deity associated in biblical sources with the Ammonites, later recast by rival scripture, polemic and demonology into a hostile…
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Biblical Israel, Judah, Ammonite-related debate and later Mediterranean interpretation
Moloch was a disputed biblical name associated with forbidden child sacrifice, possibly a deity, title or sacrificial category, later recast by rival scripture, polemic and…
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Biblical reception of Assyria; later Jewish, Christian and demonological traditions
Nisroch was an otherwise unattested deity named in the Bible as the god in whose temple Sennacherib was assassinated, later recast by rival scripture, polemic…
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Ancient Egyptian tradition
Set is remembered as an ancient Egyptian god of desert, storm, force, foreign lands, royal power and violent disruption whose role changed dramatically across Egyptian…
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