Demogorgon, although often ascribed to Greek mythology, is actually attributed to a fourth-century scholar, imagined as the name of a pagan god or demon, associated with the underworld and envisaged as a powerful primordial being, whose very name had been taboo.

Another, less accepted theory claims that it is derived from a variation of ' demiurge ', although the two scholarly editions of the earliest mention of the term ( Jahnke 1898 and Sweeney 1997 ) see Demogorgon as a corruption of demiurge.

The name Demogorgon is introduced in a discussion of Thebaid 4. 516, which mentions ' the supreme being of the threefold world ' ( triplicis mundi summum ); in a mystical passage that seems to show Jewish influence, as it mentions Moses and Isaiah ); the author says of Statius, Dicit deum Demogorgona summum (' He is speaking of the Demogorgon, the supreme god ', or perhaps ' He is speaking of a god, the supreme Demogorgon ').

Prior to Lactantius, there is no mention of the supposed " Demogorgon " anywhere by any writer, pagan or Christian.

In the Early Middle Ages, Demogorgon is mentioned in the tenth-century Adnotationes super Lucanum, a series of short notes to Lucan's Pharsalia that are included in the Commenta Bernensia, the " Berne Scholia on Lucan ".

After Boccaccio Demogorgon is mentioned as a " primal " god in quite a few Renaissance texts, and impressively glossed " Demon-Gorgon ," i. e., " Terror-Demon " or " God of the Earth.

Demogorgon is the central character in Voltaire's 1756 short story Plato's Dream-a " lesser superbeing " who was responsible for creating the planet Earth.

Demogorgon is also a character in Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound.

In this lyrical drama, Demogorgon is the offspring of Jupiter and Thetis who eventually dethrones Jupiter.

It is never mentioned whether Demogorgon is male or female and it is instead portrayed as a dark, shapeless spirit.

In the poem " Demogorgon " by Álvaro de Campos, the writer is afraid of becoming mad by learning the true nature and unveiling the mystery of life.

Oerth's newest death knight is Vanthus Vanderboren, a former nobleman of Sasserine and servant of Demogorgon.

* Demogorgon is a demon prince of tremendous power included in the Watcher's Keep expansion area as an optional boss.

Panthea describes Demogorgon upon his ebon throne: " I see a mighty darkness / Filling the seat of power, and rays of gloom / Dart round, as light from the meridian sun ,/ Ungazed upon and shapeless ; neither limb ,/ Nor form, nor outline ; yet we feel it is / A living Spirit.

Asia becomes upset that Demogorgon will not reveal the name of God, first demanding, " Utter his name: a world pining in pain / Asks but his name: curses shall drag him down.

The Monster Manual 2 was released on May 20, 2009 with Demogorgon on the cover ; Monster Manual 3 was released on June 15, 2010 featuring Lolth on its cover.

Demon lords and demon princes such as Orcus, Demogorgon, Zuggtmoy, Graz ' zt and countless others rule over the demons of their individual layers of the Abyss, inasmuch as the chaotic demons can be ruled over.

The origins of the name Demogorgon are uncertain, partly because the name itself was perhaps of imaginary coinage.

By the late Middle Ages, the reality of a primordial " Demogorgon " was so well fixed in the European imagination that " Demogorgon's son Pan " became a bizarre variant reading for " Hermes ' son Pan " in one manuscript tradition of Boccaccio's Genealogia Deorum gentilium (" Genealogies of the Gods ": 1. 3-4 and 2. 1 ), misreading a line in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

" The French historian and mythographer Jean Seznec, for instance, now spots in Demogorgon an allusion to the Demiurge (" Craftsman " or " Maker ") of Plato's Timaeus.

For a remarkable early text actually identifying Ovid's Demiurge ( 1 / 1, here ) as " sovereign Demogorgon ," see the paraphrase of Metamorphoses I in Abraham France, The third part of the Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch ( London, 1592 ), sig.

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According to Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Demogorgon has a splendid temple palace in the Himalaya mountains where every five years the fates and genii are all summoned to appear before him and give an account of their actions.

When elements of Ariosto's poem supplied Philippe Quinault's libretto for Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera Roland, performed at Versailles, 8 January 1685, Demogorgon was king of the fairies and master of ceremonies.

filosofo confuso (" Demogorgon, or the Confused Philosopher " by Vincenzo Righini ( 1786 ) with a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, which was originally written for Mozart.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.

Why, in the first place, call himself a liberal if he is against laissez-faire and favors an authoritarian central government with womb-to-tomb controls over everybody??

Life is further characterized, in antithesis to Piepsam, as animal: the image of a dog, which appears at several places, is first given as the criterion of amiable, irrelevant interest aroused by life considered simply as a spectacle: a dog in a wagon is `` admirable '', `` a pleasure to contemplate '' ; ;

In the first instance, `` mimesis '' is here used to mean the recalling of experience in terms of vivid images rather than in terms of abstract ideas or conventional designations.

This is the primary function of the imagination operating in the absence of the original experiential stimulus by which the images were first appropriated.

The first half of The Charles Men, ending on the climax of the battle of Poltava in 1709, is more dramatically coherent than the second.

He is, first and foremost, a defender of public morals, a servant of society.

The first of two possible variations on this theme is symbolized by Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.

Noting such evidence is the first step ; ;

So it is that we relive his opening statement in the first television address with the dramatic immediacy of the present.

and it is surely clear that the first of these is the result of the way in which the individual's command of language interacts with the other two.

The first thing to do is get her some money by a temporary but definite adjustment pending a final disposition of the case.

When I take over Taliesin, the first thing I'll do is fire you ''.

If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.

At this point a working definition of idea is in order, although our first definition will have to be qualified somewhat as we proceed.

`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

We saw it frequently afterward, but our suggestion for the very first encounter is near sunset.

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.