Birdsong and barking become intelligible in Barbatos’s office. He also opens treasure concealed by enchantment, arriving with four noble kings and their troops when the Sun is in Sagittarius. [1]
Barbatos gives understanding of birdsong and the voices of other creatures, with barking dogs named as an example. His discovery of wealth is equally specific: he breaks open treasure hidden through magicians’ enchantments. [1]
His arrival has a celestial setting and a company. When the Sun is in Sagittarius, he appears with four noble kings and great troops. He knows past and future, reconciles friends and people in power, and governs thirty legions. A former member of the Virtues, he is said still to retain some part of that order. [1]
An earl as well as a duke
Scot titles Barbatos both earl and duke. His four kings also bring companies and troops, but the appearance is introduced through the Latin phrase ‘Signo sagittarii sylvestris’. The Goetia specifies the Sun’s presence in Sagittarius. [1][2]
The earlier list of animal voices names cattle lowing beside birds and barking dogs, then extends understanding to all living creatures. [2]
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 8; printed p. 14, PDF p. 11
Reginald Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Barbatos; 1886 reprint page 314
