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Sources: Ford, Liber Hvhi, 94, 97; Rose, Giants,
Monsters, and Dragons, 33; Turner, Dictionary of Ancient
Deities, 85.

Daimon Pneuma
Daimon pneuma is a Greek phrase that translates to mean “demon spirits.”

Source: Fahlbusch, Encyclopedia of Christianity, Vol.
5, 126.

Daimonian Hepta
Daimonian hepta is a Greek phrase that translates to mean “seven demons.”

Source: Reiling, Translator’s Handbook on the Gospel
of Luke, 327, 507.

Daimonion
Variations: Daemonium, Daimon, Daimonizesthai, Demon-God, Demon of Demons,
Transcendent Demon
Mentioned in the Old Testament, a daimonion
is a type of immortal, vampiric demon that possessed people. Sometimes during the course of
the possession, the afflicted would make utterances of prophecies. Daimonion, as a name,
translates to mean “a knowing one,” “something
divine,” “to be subject to an appointed fate,” and
“the divine spark within each of us.”
People who were possessed by a demon were
called demoniacs. More often than not these individuals already had some other sort of malady,

be it a physical deformity or a disease.

Sources: Balfour, Three Inquiries, 94, 340, 358; Benardete, Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy, 127–9;
Collin de Plancy, Dictionary of Witchcraft, 48; Russell,
Prince of Darkness, 25, 45.

Daimonion Akathartos
Daimonion akathartos is a Greek phrase that
translates to mean “unclean demon-god.”

Sources: Reiling, Translator’s Handbook on the Gospel
of Luke, 214; Van der Toorn, Dictionary of Deities and
Demons in the Bible, 882.

Daimonion Poterion
Daimonion poterion is a Greek phrase that
translates to mean “chalice of the demon-gods.”

Source: Smith, Comprehensive Dictionary of the Bible,
197.

Daimonizomai
Daimonizomai (“DEMONIAC”) is a Greek word
for a person who is possessed by or under the
power of a demon.
Sources: Boehm, It’s a Dark World, 162; Kraft, Defeating Dark Angels, 35.

Daityas
Variations: Kratu-dvishas (“enemies of sacrifices”)
In Hindu mythology, the gigantic, demonic

spirits that were born from the goddess Diti and
Kasyapa are known as daityas. Under the command of VRITRA, the dragon serpent, the daityas
oppose sacrifice to the gods and will prevent it if
they are able.
During Krita Yuga, the first age of the cosmos,
these demons became so well armed and powerful
that they were able to overpower and defeat the
gods, and led by Vritra they scattered the gods
across the cosmos. The gods pleaded to Brahma,
who advised them to seek a demon-slaying
weapon from Rishi, a sage. The gods did as they
were advised and Rishi made a demon-slaying
weapon he named Vajra from his own bones. It
was placed in the hands of INDRA, who then led
the gods to a victorious return to the heavens
with it. In the course of the battle, Vritra was
slain and the daityas who survived the battle were
rounded up and banished by Indra to Patala, a
realm deep beneath the ocean, where the serpent
demons, NAGA, live. In their confinement the
daityas gather and plot out their revenge.

Sources: Lurker, Routledge Dictionary of Gods and
Goddesses, 47; Hyatt, Book of Demons, 23; Singh, Encyclopaedia of Hinduism, 2498, 2519–20; Turner, Dictionary of Ancient Deities, 140.

Daitya-Yuga
Daitya-yuga is an AGE OF DEMONS, said to
last 12,000 divine years. Sources vary, but
typically one year (365 days) equals one divine
day; 365 divine days equal one divine year. The

Daitya-yuga will last 1,555,200,000 actual years.

Sources: Clough, Sinhalese English Dictionary, 259;
Working Glossary for the Use of Students of Theosophical
Literature, 12.

Daivers
Variations: Daivergoel, Divs (DIV)
In Hindu mythology daivers are a species of
demonic DJINN that have material and spiritual
bodies as well as many human attributes, both
good and evil. The daivers are under the command of their king, Daivuntren (or INDIREN,
sources vary), their queen, Inderannee, and their
prince, Seedcra-Hudderen. Daivers live in a
world called Daiver Logum with those heroes
and prophets who are not yet ready to dwell in
the Shiva’s paradise. They can also be found sitting in Daivuntren’s audience chamber among
the many other attendants. The mythology tells
us that there are 330,000,000 daivers.
Sources: Kindersley, Specimens of Hindoo Literature,