Unsolved:Bune

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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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Peterson, Joseph H., ed (May 2001) (in English). 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. https://books.google.com/books?id=wfIrE3QtmFEC. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Rudd, Thomas (2010). Skinner, Stephen; Rankine, David. eds (in English). The Goetia of Dr Rudd. Golden Hoard Press. 2007. p. 128. ISBN 978-0738723556. https://books.google.com/books?id=Ws6CRAAACAAJ. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Weyer, Johann (1563). Peterson, Joseph H.. ed (in English). Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (Liber officiorum spirituum). Twilit Grotto: Esoteric Archives. 2000. par. 23. http://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/weyer.htm. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 de Plancy, Jacques Collin (1853) (in French). Dictionnaire infernal. Paris: Sagnier et Bray. p. 124. https://books.google.com/books?id=ng8JAAAAQAAJ. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Boudet, Jean-Patrice (2003). "Les who's who démonologiques de la Renaissance et leurs ancêtres médiévaux" (in French). Médiévales. Langues, Textes, Histoire. Médiévales (Revues.org) (44): par. 25, 60. doi:10.4000/medievales.1019. http://medievales.revues.org/1019. 
  6. ↑ Runyon, Carroll (September 1996) (in en). The Book of Solomon's Magick. Church of the Hermetic Science Incorporated. p. 156. ISBN 978-0-9654881-1-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=OXnVPQAACAAJ. 
  7. ↑ Rudd 2010, pp. 51-52.
  8. ↑ Rudd 2010, pp. 366-376.




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