Bune is a demon listed in demonological grimoires such the Lesser Key of Solomon[note 1][1] (including Thomas Rudd's version, as Bime)[2] Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum,[note 2][3] Jacques Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal,[4] and the Livre des Esperitz.[note 3][5]

All of these texts describe Bune as a duke who is able to move the dead, make one rich, and answer a variety of questions.[1][2][3][4][5] The Livre des Esperitz claims that Bune rules 35 legions of spirits,[5] while the other texts only give him 30 legions to command.[1][2][3][4] The other texts further describe Bune's appearance as a three headed dragon (with one head being human) and give him the additional powers of making devils gather around graves and making one wise and charismatic.[1][2][3][4]

Practicing occultist Carroll "Poke" Runyon suggests that the name ultimately derives from Buto (a title for Isis),[6] as part of an overall claim that the Lesser Key of Solomon was by Solomon and rooted in Mesopotamian mythology.[7]

According to Rudd, Bune is opposed by the Shemhamphorasch angel Haaiah.[8]

Notes

  1. ↑ As the twenty-sixth spirit.
  2. ↑ As the twenty-third spirit.
  3. ↑ As the twenty-seventh spirit.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Peterson, Joseph H., ed. (May 2001). Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis: The Lesser Key of Solomon, Detailing the Ceremonial Art of Commanding Spirits Both Good and Evil;. Maine: Weiser Books (published 2001). p. 18. ISBN 1-57863-220-X.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Rudd, Thomas (2010). Skinner, Stephen; Rankine, David (eds.). The Goetia of Dr Rudd. Golden Hoard Press (published 2007). p. 128. ISBN 978-0738723556.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Weyer, Johann (1563). Peterson, Joseph H. (ed.). Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (Liber officiorum spirituum). Twilit Grotto: Esoteric Archives (published 2000). par. 23.
  4. 1 2 3 4 de Plancy, Jacques Collin (1853). Dictionnaire infernal (in French). Paris: Sagnier et Bray. p. 124.
  5. 1 2 3 Boudet, Jean-Patrice (2003). "Les who's who démonologiques de la Renaissance et leurs ancêtres médiévaux". Médiévales. Langues, Textes, Histoire. Médiévales (in French). Revues.org (44). par. 25, 60. doi:10.4000/medievales.1019.
  6. ↑ Runyon, Carroll (September 1996). The Book of Solomon's Magick. Church of the Hermetic Science Incorporated. p. 156. ISBN 978-0-9654881-1-2.
  7. ↑ Rudd 2010, pp. 51–52.
  8. ↑ Rudd 2010, pp. 366–376.


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