Balam (demon)

In demonology, Balam (also Balaam, Balan) is a great and powerful king (to some authors a duke) of Hell who commands over forty legions of demons. He gives perfect answers on things past, present, and to come, and can also make men invisible and witty.

Balam is depicted as being three-headed. One head is the head of a bull, the second of a man, and the third of a ram. He has flaming eyes and the tail of a serpent. He carries a hawk on his fist and rides a strong bear. At other times he is represented as a naked man riding a bear.

His name seems to have been taken from Balaam, the Biblical magician.

In Modern Culture

In the early 90's there was a gothic band called "Balam & the angels"

Balam (as Balan) appears in Polish fantasy movie "Dzieje Mistrze Twardowskiego" ("The Story of Master Twardowski") as the Duke of Hell, the main adversary of famous polish necromancer Twardowski.

In the Outlanders SF series by Mark Ellis(writing as James Axler), Balam is presented as 1,500 year old alien/human hybrid, the last of the Archons, who correspond to the Roswell Greys.

In the 2006 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game supplement "Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and True Name Magic", Balam appears as a "vestige" with whom characters can make a pact in return for power.

ee also

*The Lesser Key of Solomon

ources

*S. L. MacGregor Mathers, A. Crowley, "" (1904). 1995 reprint: ISBN 0-87728-847-X.