Bull, man and ram heads rise above a fire-breathing, dragon-mounted king. Asmoday is first under Amaymon, teaches mathematical arts and handicrafts, and reveals treasure whose location he also guards. [1]
Giving the Ring of Virtues, teaching arithmetic, astronomy, geometry and handicrafts, answering questions, making people invincible, and finding and guarding treasure. [1]
Three heads, bull, man and ram; a serpent's tail, fire from the mouth, goose-like webbed feet; riding an infernal dragon and bearing a lance with a banner. [1]
Asmoday has a bull’s head, a human head and a ram’s head, a serpent’s tail and webbed feet like a goose’s. Flames issue from his mouth. Seated upon an infernal dragon, he carries a lance with a banner and goes before the others beneath Amaymon’s power. [1]
His encounter calls for the exorcist to be abroad, standing throughout, with cap or head-dress removed. If the head remains covered, the passage warns of Amaymon’s deception and the disclosure of the caller’s actions. When addressed by name, Asmoday acknowledges his identity and bows to the ground. His lamen is worn upon the breast. [1]
The Ring of Virtues and guarded treasure
Asmoday gives the Ring of Virtues and teaches arithmetic, astronomy, geometry and handicrafts. He answers demands truly and fully, makes a person invincible, and shows where treasures lie while guarding their place. Seventy-two inferior legions beneath Amaymon are assigned to him. The notice names the ring but does not describe its design. [1]
Sidonay’s invisibility and the vessel chiefs
Scot’s earlier king is Sidonay or Asmoday. The substantial learned subjects remain, but the promised power is invisibility rather than the Goetia’s invincibility. His address to the spirit is printed as ‘Thou art Asmoday’, where the later encounter asks ‘Art thou Asmoday?’. [1][4]
Asmoday also appears among the chiefs of the brass vessel. Scot’s account under Beliall names Bileth, Beliall and Asmoday; the Goetia’s closing passage names Belial, Bileth, Asmoday and Gaap. [3][4]
S. L. MacGregor Mathers, translated; Aleister Crowley, edited, The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King (1904), first-edition facsimile supplied by Keep Silence. Shemhamphorash, entry 32, Asmoday/Asmodai; printed pp. 20–21, PDF pp. 17–18
S. L. MacGregor Mathers, translated; Aleister Crowley, edited, The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King (1904), first-edition facsimile supplied by Keep Silence. Shemhamphorash, entry 51, Balam; printed pp. 25–26, facsimile PDF pp. 22–23.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers, translated; Aleister Crowley, edited, The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King (1904), first-edition facsimile supplied by Keep Silence. Paragraph immediately following entry 72; facsimile PDF page 28, printed page 31
Reginald Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Sidonay, reprint p. 321; Beliall vessel passage, pp. 318–319
