#Castle clash here be demon series#

Д«y 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':1.3вЂ“4 and 2.1), misreading a line in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

#Castle clash here be demon series#

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'. However, this phantom word in one of the manuscript traditions took on a life of its own among later scholars. Jahnke thus restores the text to read 'He is speaking of the Demiurge, whose name it is not permitted to know'. However, as noted above, there are several different manuscript traditions, including one that gives 'demoirgon', which has been taken by most critical editors to indicate some form of misconstruction of the Greek dД“miourgon. Prior to Lactantius, there is no mention of the supposed 'Demogorgon' anywhere by any writer, pagan or Christian. In one manuscript, the author says of Statius, Dicit deum Demogorgona summum, cuius scire nomen non licet ('He is speaking of the Demogorgon, the supreme god, whose name it is not permitted to know', or perhaps 'He is speaking of a god, the supreme Demogorgon'). The name Demogorgon is introduced in a discussion of Thebaid 4.516, which mentions 'the supreme being of the threefold world' ( triplicis mundi summum). The commentary has been attributed incorrectly to a different Lactantius, the Christian author Lucius Caelius Firmianus Lactantius, even though the commentator appears to have been Mithraic. The Lactantius Placidus commentary became the most common medieval commentary on the poem by Statius and is transmitted in most early editions up to 1600. Derivation and history Дemogorgon is first mentioned in the commentary on Statius's Thebaid often attributed in manuscripts to a Lactantius Placidus, (c. Various other theories suggest that the name is derived from a combination of the Greek words ОґО±ОЇОјП‰ОЅ daimon (' spirit' given the Christian connotations of 'demon' in the early Middle Ages)-or, less likely Оґбї†ОјОїП‚ dГЄmos ('people')-and ОіОїПЃОіПЊП‚ gorgГіs ('quick') or О“ОїПЃОіПЋОЅ Gorgб№“n, the Ancient Greek monsters first attested in Hesiod's Theogony.

The name variants cited by Ricardus Jahnke include the Latin 'demoirgon', 'emoirgon', 'demogorgona', 'demogorgon', with the first critical editor Friedrich Lindenbrog (Fridericus Tiliobroga) having conjectured 'ОґО·ОјО№ОїП…ПЃОіПЊОЅ' as the prototype in 1600. Art historian Jean Seznec concludes that 'Demogorgon is a grammatical error, become god.' Boccaccio, in his influential Genealogia Deorum Gentilium, cites a now-lost work by Theodontius and that master's acknowledged Byzantine source ' Pronapides the Athenian' as authority for the idea that Demogorgon is the antecedent of all the gods.

The origins of the name Demogorgon are not entirely clear, though the most prevalent scholarly view now considers it to be a misreading of the Greek ОґО·ОјО№ОїП…ПЃОіПЊОЅ ( dД“miourgГіn, accusative case form of ОґО·ОјО№ОїП…ПЃОіПЊП‚, ' demiurge') based on the manuscript variations in the earliest known explicit reference in Lactantius Placidus (Jahnke 1898, Sweeney 1997, Solomon 2012).