Dumah
Jewish mythology (rabbinic–kabbalistic) · numen · Jewish mythology (rabbinic–kabbalistic) traditional religion; continuing · numen
THE CORPUS HAD NO JEWISH AFTERLIFE. Twelve records and not one of them held the dead: Dumah is the angel who receives the soul when it leaves the body, and the Zohar makes him chief of Gehinnom. He is the counterpart, under this key, of the Barastyr the Ossetian key was missing one lane ago.
Domains
- silence
- authority over the wicked dead
- gehinnom
- command of the angels of destruction
Sources
- Reference treatment of Dumah: Dumah, 'silence', is an angel mentioned in rabbinic literature as having authority over the wicked dead; Rabbi Johanan describes him as the angel ruling over souls after their departure from the body, and in the Babylonian Talmud (Berakhot 18b; Shabbat 152b) he is the angel of the realm of the dead, announcing the arrival of new souls and managing their fates; the Zohar speaks of him as having tens of thousands of angels of destruction under him and as being chief of demons in Gehinnom with twelve thousand myriads of attendants.
- Babylonian Talmud, Berakhot 18b
- Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 152b
- Zohar