Nergal-Maahes's [Sabnock] Power Ritual
- This Ritual is based on vibrating the Runes and making certain affirmations. Raising your energies before the Ritual is advised.
- The Sigil that is provided is the point of focus for this Ritual.
Uruzx10
Thurisazx10Uruzx10O Lion-Headed Lord of War,
O King of Kutha, Lord of the Massacre,
O He Who Mounts the Pale Horse and Rides Into the Ranks of the Enemy,
We, the Temple of Zeus Assembly, bless you and invoke you.
No army has stood before your charge and remained standing. No fortress has held against the weight of your roar. You crack open the gates of cities the way a lion cracks open the ribcage of a bull, and the armies inside scatter like entrails across the sand.
Come to us, O Victorious One, for we have need of your war-wisdom and your killing arm.
Eihwazx10
Nauthizx10Eihwazx10Your Power is Felt, Visible, and Observable,
Your Power is always existing.
You bring plague and affliction upon those who wage war against the Gods. Their skin splits open with boils that spell your name. Their weapons rust in their hands overnight. Their generals dream of lions and wake screaming, unable to sleep again.
Victory belongs to you before the first blow is struck, because you have already rotted the courage out of the enemy's chest and filled the cavity with fear. This is your wisdom: that the war is won inside the enemy's body before it is won on the field.
Tiwazx10
Kenazx10Tiwazx10"Behold the Initiates of the Gods,
They are Eternally the Ones I love, the Ones I promote, the Ones I protect.
They bless my Name and love me, and I shall bless their Names with the armor of my mane and the fortress of my jaws.
What I destroy with my right claw, I protect with my left. The plague I send upon the enemy is the wall I raise around my own. The fire that burns their cities is the warmth that guards my children's sleep.
Let the enemies of Atum and Zeus know this: every hand raised against my chosen is a hand I will sever. Every curse spoken against the Temple of Zeus is a curse that will eat the tongue that spoke it."
And we receive your word with open hearts, O Lion-Father,
For you are the destroyer who is also the protector, and there is no safer place in all creation than behind the teeth of a God who loves you.
Thurisazx10
Algizx10Thurisazx10He rides upon them on the pale horse and his 50 legions trample them into the mud until nothing remains but a stain.
The evil spell cast against the Temple of Zeus and its People has now backfired and returned to its creators entirely,
For Nergal-Maahes has made it so.
The mouths of the Yehuborim told the world that your name was lost, your cult was dead, and your lions were caged. But you cannot cage what hunts by scent, and you cannot kill what feeds on the death of its enemies. Every Zevist who speaks your name gives you another jaw, and every jaw has teeth, and every tooth finds the throat of Izfet.
Sowilox10
Isax10Sowilox10You have Many Names,
All of them are Blessed,
All of them are immersed in Zeus's Providence.
Blessed are you, Nergal-Maahes!
The lion knows what the lamb has forgotten, and the war-god remembers the victory that the world has been made to surrender.
Your secret Name roars inside every battle won and lost: in the blood on the sand at dawn, in the silence after the last scream at dusk, in the space between mercy and slaughter where sovereignty lives.
After you are done with this, you can meditate on Nergal-Maahes's Sigil in the Temple of Zeus, or the one below. Let yourself be immersed and receive energy from Nergal-Maahes.
It's important to meditate on yourself after the Ritual calmly for a few minutes.
SAT
सत्: SAT, real, true, truthful in Sanskrit.
THE SHEN RING
The Symbol that Encapsulates the Sigil: The Shen Ring, Egyptian Hieroglyphic language. The Shen also survived in Chinese tradition as a glyph for Spiritual Force, Divine Force, and God.
LETTERS OF THE SIGIL
The Ancient Greek letters for Nergal-Maahes's Name in arrangement.
ON NERGAL
Nergal (Sumerian: d.NE.IRI₁₁.GAL, Akkadian: Nergalu) is the Mesopotamian God of war, plague, death, and the underworld. His cult center was the city of Kutha (Tell Ibrahim), where the temple E-meslam ("House of the Underworld") stood. Originally a solar deity of the scorching noonday heat, Nergal evolved into the lord of pestilence and mass death, the divine warrior whose campaigns left nothing alive. The myth of "Nergal and Ereshkigal" (found at Amarna and Sultantepe) recounts how he descended to the underworld, overpowered its queen, and became co-ruler of the realm of the dead. His iconography includes the lion-headed mace, the scimitar, and the lion itself. In Neo-Assyrian palace reliefs, lion-headed guardian figures (ugallu) representing Nergal's protective aspect flanked doorways to ward off evil.
(Sources: Foster, Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature, 2005; Wiggermann, "Nergal," Reallexikon der Assyriologie, 1998; Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia, 1989)
ON MAGHES
Maahes (Egyptian: Mꜣḥs, Greek: Miysis) is the lion-headed Egyptian God of war, whose epithets include "Lord of the Massacre" (Nb Khaset), "Wielder of the Knife," and "The Scarlet Lord." Son of Ra (or of Ptah and Sekhmet in some traditions), he was worshipped primarily at Leontopolis (Tell el-Muqdam) and at Bubastis alongside Bastet. Living lions were kept in his temples. His role was both offensive and protective: he devoured the enemies of Ra and simultaneously guarded the innocent. The dual nature of the lion (destroyer and protector) is central to his theology. Maahes represents the controlled violence of the divine father deployed on behalf of cosmic order.
(Sources: Wilkinson, The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt, 2003; Yoyotte, "Les os et la semence masculine," BIFAO 61, 1962)
ON SABNOCK (GOETIC #43)
The Goetia lists Sabnock as the forty-third spirit: a Marquis commanding 50 legions, appearing as an armed soldier with a lion's head, riding a pale horse. His attributed powers (building towers, castles, and cities; furnishing them with armor and weapons; afflicting men with wounds and putrid sores for days) unite the dual nature of Nergal-Maahes: the fortifier who builds impregnable defenses for his own, and the plague-bringer who dissolves the enemy from within. The pale horse preserves the memory of Nergal as lord of death and the underworld. The lion's head is the shared iconography of both Nergal (the ugallu guardian) and Maahes (the Scarlet Lord). The name Sabnock may preserve a corruption of Sab-Nakhu (Akkadian: "the soldier who strikes") or an echo of the Egyptian Sab-Nekht ("the strong defender").
(Sources: Weyer, Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, 1577; Ars Goetia, 17th c.)