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Ahriman - Stupidity personified; willful ignorance and anti-intellectualism; blind adherence to old/established habits and ways of doing things; perhaps fueled by the unconscious desire to regress to a simpler or more primitive form of life; a corruption of the Preserver/Maintainer archetype.

Lucifer - Hubris personified; intellectual vanity; the extreme of intellectualism without spirituality; deification of the mundane human ego; Promethean archetype taken to the extreme.

Typhon - The corruption of the masculine archetype; raw, blind rage; wanton destruction for the sake of destruction; manifests as destructive monsters in many ancient mythologies; psychopathy; lawlessness.

Moloch - Power for the sake of power; can manifest in the people as the blind worship of political power and authoritarianism.

Loki - Corruption of human mental aptitudes for the sake of "winning" in the moment by way of tricking or cheating others; blind tricksterism; the patron demon archetype of grifters, thieves, conmen, compulsive gamblers, and pathological pranksters.

Thanatos - the championing of death over life; extreme austerity and self-mortification; self-destruction; humorlessness and the effort to deny other people pleasure and joy; the "Buzzkill" and "Debbie Downer" archetypes.

Mammon - The personification of sensual gluttony and the pursuit of material wealth/riches for its own sake; manifests as both avarice/greed and hedonism.

Lilith - The corruption of feminine archetype; the abdication of motherly duties in favor of either a prostitute existence or a misplaced desire for a woman to act out an inversion of femininity.

Narcissus - Extreme self-possession and obsession with one's own image; visceral pride; failure to recognize others as independent beings; extreme solipsism

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Date: 2020-09-14 05:34 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] violetcabra
You're most welcome! I tend to follow the trad Cabala pretty closely when I think of the sort planetary dualism you explore here. In that context, we would examine the Negative Power of Hod, which manifests as lies, deceits and falsehoods. I suggest JMG's _Paths of Wisdom_ for its treatment of this very unpleasant being.
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