Angel Adramelechk
Adramelechk (King of Fire) is one of two Throne Angels generally linked with the Angel ASMADAI, one of two potent thrones mentioned in Milton's Paradise Lost. He is mentioned in demonography as the eighth of the ten ARCHDEMONS and as a great minister and chancellor of the Order of the Fly, and infernal order founded by Beelzebub. In rabbinic litertature, it is said that when conjured Adramelechk manifested in form of a mule or a peacock.Adramelechk, who has also been equated witrh the Babylonian Anu and with the Ammonite Moloch, is mentioned in various sources, such as The History of Magic, where he is pictured as a horse; 2 Kings, where he is regarded as a god to whom children of the Sepharvite colony Samaria were sacrificed; and Milton's Paradise Lost, where he is referred to both as an idol of the Assyrians and the fallen angel overthrown by Uriel and Raphael in combat.
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