Mastema
Jewish mythology (rabbinic–kabbalistic) · numen · Jewish mythology (rabbinic–kabbalistic) traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
HE ASKED PERMISSION. The Jubilees account has the chief of the demons petition God for his own host and receive it, which puts the demonic economy inside the divine one rather than against it. Belial, named twice in the same book and said by the sources to be probably identical with him, is censused BLOCKED rather than authored as a second record on a 'probably'.
Domains
- command of the demons
- temptation of humanity
- hostility
Sources
- Chief of the demons engendered by the Watchers with human women, who in the Book of Jubilees asks God for hosts of them — the spirits of the Nephilim — to tempt and corrupt humanity.: Reference treatment of Mastema and Belial in the Book of Jubilees: Mastema ('hostility') is the chief of the Nephilim, the demons engendered by the fallen angels called Watchers with human women; in Jubilees he requests hosts of demons, the spirits of the Nephilim, from God, to tempt and corrupt humanity; another devilish entity, Belial, is mentioned twice in Jubilees and is probably identical to Mastema. (secondary); Book of Jubilees (primary)