A third goat is to sent into the desert to " Azazel ", bearing the sins of the whole people.

The issue introduces Hell's Hierarchy ( as their entry is titled in Who's Who in the DC Universe ), headed by Lucifer ( who would spin off into his own series in 1999 ), Beelzebub ( later adversary to Kid Eternity ), and Azazel, whom Dream defeated later in the run.

Having one of these on his right and the other on his left, the high priest, who was assisted in this rite by two subordinates, put both his hands into a wooden case, and took out two labels, one inscribed " for Yahweh " and the other " for absolute removal " ( or " for Azazel ").

The very fact that the two goats were presented before God, before the one was sacrificed and the other sent into the wilderness, was proof that Azazel was not ranked alongside God, but regarded simply as the personification of wickedness in contrast with the righteous government of God.

According to the Book of Enoch, which brings Azazel into connection with the Biblical story of the fall of the angels, located on Mount Hermon, a gathering-place of demons from of old ( Enoch xiii.

Azazel is represented in the Book of Enoch as one of the leaders of the rebellious Watchers in the time preceding the flood ; he taught men the art of warfare, of making swords, knives, shields, and coats of mail, and women the art of deception by ornamenting the body, dying the hair, and painting the face and the eyebrows, and also revealed to the people the secrets of witchcraft and corrupted their manners, leading them into wickedness and impurity ; until at last he was, at the Lord's command, bound hand and foot by the archangel Raphael and chained to the rough and jagged rocks of Duduael (= Beth Ḥadudo ), where he is to abide in utter darkness until the great Day of Judgment, when he will be cast into the fire to be consumed forever ( Enoch viii.

God sees the sin brought about by Azazel and has Raphael “ bind Azazel hand and foot and cast him into the darkness: and make an opening in the desert – which is in Dudael – and cast him therein.

Go, Azazel, into the untrodden parts of the earth.

: And again the Lord said to Raphael: ' Bind Azazel hand and foot, and cast him into the darkness: and make an opening in the desert, which is in Dudael, and cast him therein.

However, this claim was later called into question, and it was subsequently proven that Kurt's mother is Mystique, also known as Raven Darkholme, and his father is the demonic warlord Azazel.

Mystique revealed that she threw him into a well after a large mob found out about Nightcrawler's existence, and Azazel admitted that he secretly saved his son from the fall, giving him to his lover and crony, Margali Szardos, to raise him.

Jonesy suddenly shoots Stanton, revealing himself to be possessed by Azazel, and then chases Hobbes into the cabin.

Go, Azazel, into the untrodden parts of the earth.

Eventually Hobbes tracks down the killer and confronts him alone, where the man makes a startling claim: he is the same killer Hobbes sentenced to death, but not Edgar Reese ; rather, he is the demon Azazel, and was possessing Reese's body during the murders.

Hobbes follows a lead from a riddle Azazel gave him concerning Robert Milano, a decorated cop who committed suicide in his mountain cabin 30 years earlier.

When Hobbes journeys to the cabin, he finds a clue uncovering a deeper truth: when he died Milano was trying to kill Azazel.

To provoke Hobbes, Azazel possesses his nephew Sam ( Michael J. Pagan ) and attacks John's intellectually disabled brother Art ( Gabriel Casseus ) in their home.

As the teacher, Azazel draws a gun and forces Hobbes to shoot his host in front of a group of bystanders.

Hobbes comes to realize that Azazel can transfer from body to body upon his host's death and inhabit anyone — including Hobbes.

Lieutenant Stanton ( Donald Sutherland ) informs Hobbes that his fingerprints were found at one of the murder scenes and along with the bizarre circumstances of the shooting of the teacher Azazel possessed, he has become a suspect for all the murders.

Azazel inhabits several of the witnesses and gives false accounts that the shooting was unprovoked, thereby throwing further suspicion on Hobbes.

Hobbes then leaves Sam with Gretta and drives alone to Milano's remote cabin to isolate and trap Azazel.

As Jonesy slowly expires, Hobbes smokes a poison-laced cigarette and taunts Azazel with the fact that he will soon be dead and his body will be useless as a host, thus trapping and killing him.

Hobbes kills Jonesy by shooting him in the head, but Azazel then possesses Hobbes.

Mythos editor Robert M. Price argues that Lovecraft could have combined the biblical names Anathoth ( Jeremiah's home town ) and Azazel ( a desert demon to which the scapegoat was sacrificed — mentioned by Lovecraft in " The Dunwich Horror ").

Lars and Raven locate an abandoned temple in the middle of the desert, said to be the home of the demon known as Azazel, or the Rectifier.

The desert was seen as outside the bounds of society and as the home of demons such as Azazel ( Leviticus 16: 10 ).

Naroth couldn ’ t play the tour, and was replaced by Azazel.

In the Sefer Hekalot, Rabbi Ishmael is described as having visited the 7th Heaven, where he meets Enoch, who claims that earth had, in his time, been corrupted by the demons Shammazai, and Azazel, and so Enoch was taken to Heaven to prove that God was not cruel.

This derivation is presented by a Baraita, cited Yoma 67b, that Azazel was the strongest of mountains.

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The corruption brought on by Azazel and the Grigori degrades the human race, and the four archangels ( Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Phanuel ) “ saw much blood being shed upon the earth and all lawlessness being wrought upon the earth The souls of men their suit, saying, " Bring our cause before the Most High ; Thou seest what Azazel hath done, who hath taught all unrighteousness on earth and revealed the eternal secrets which were in heaven, which men were striving to learn.

The whole earth has been corrupted through the works that were taught by Azazel: to him ascribe all sin.

Abraham says that the wicked will " putrefy in the belly of the crafty worm Azazel, and be burned by the fire of Azazel's tongue " ( Abr.

In contrast, the early Enochic tradition bases its understanding of the origin of demons on the story of the fallen Watchers led by Azazel.

One possible exception is the Grigori who, led by Azazel, descended on Mount Hermon and copulated with earthly women out of lust.

In 2003, it was revealed that although Mystique was married to a wealthy German, Herr Wagner, Nightcrawler's father was Azazel, a member of a race of demonic-looking mutants known as the Neyaphem which date back to Biblical times that were banished to another dimension by a race of angelic mutants.

This version of the Hellfire Club is led by Sebastian Shaw ( Kevin Bacon ) and Emma Frost ( January Jones ), with Azazel ( Jason Flemyng ), Riptide ( Álex González ) and Angel Salvadore ( Zoë Kravitz ) as the main other members.

At the end of the movie, Sebastian Shaw is killed by Magneto and many of its members ( Emma Frost, Azazel, Riptide and Angel ) join Magneto and his new group the Brotherhood of Mutants.

* " The Eye of the Beholder ," a short story by Isaac Asimov, included in his 1988 anthology Azazel

* by the Jewish high priest on Yom Kippur, after sending away the goat to Azazel, and by the man who leads away the goat ;

Azazel claims he can possess any person merely by touching them.