Astaroth also features as an archdemon associated with the Qliphoth (adverse forces) according to later Kabbalistic texts, as he rules over the Qlipha of Jupiter, known as Gha'agsheblah.ĭutch demonologist Johann Weyer also described Astaroth in his Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (1577) thus: "Astaroth is a great and a strong duke, coming forth in the shape of a foul angel, sitting upon an infernal dragon, and carrying on his left hand a viper", who also claimed to rule 40 legions. 1458, and recurred in most occult grimoires of the following centuries. The name "Astaroth" as a male demon is first seen in The Book of Abramelin, purportedly written in Hebrew c. This latter form was directly transliterated in the early Greek and Latin versions of the Bible, where it was less apparent that it had been a plural feminine in Hebrew. She is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in the forms Ashtoreth (singular) and Ashtaroth (plural, in reference to multiple statues of it). The name Astaroth was ultimately derived from that of 2nd millennium BC Phoenician goddess Astarte, an equivalent of the Babylonian Ishtar, and the earlier Sumerian Inanna.
He is known to be a male (or female) figure most likely named after the Near Eastern goddess Astarte. Seal of Astaroth, as depicted in The Lesser Key of SolomonĪstaroth (also Ashtaroth, Astarot and Asteroth), in demonology, was known to be the Great Duke of Hell in the first hierarchy with Beelzebub and Lucifer he was part of the evil trinity.
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