Behemoth: the demon of gluttony

Behemoth: the demon of gluttony.

Behemoth – sometimes called Bahamuth or Begimo – is a gigantic demon mentioned in The Book of Job, to the point that his name is used as a pseudonym for the monstrous and the excessive.

The book of Enoch relates the colossal appearance of Behemoth to an elephant or a hippopotamus, icons that have since accompanied him through the grimoires and forbidden books of the Middle Ages.

The Book of Enoch itself offers us a key to discovering the identity of the rude Behemoth:

And on that day two monsters will separate, a female called Leviathan, who will dwell in the abyss over which the waters flow, and a male called Behemoth, and will occupy with her breasts an immense desert called Dandain.

All the cursed books agree that Behemoth is chronically obese, with a rustic appearance and harsh manners, whose intelligence does not seem very developed.

This intellectual characteristic of Behemoth is not a deficiency. Its intelligence is difficult to appreciate at first glance, precisely because that of elephants, hippos and large mammals is slow and tenacious.

The center of Behemoth’s power is found in the stomach. That is why he is considered the demon of gluttony, that is, of gastronomic excesses.

His love of good food has made Behemot the sommelier of hell and the cook of Satan himself, whom he advises on wines and delicacies.

In Hebrew myths, this characteristic of Behemoth is hypertrophied, and he is described as an immense and insatiable ox that devours the equivalent of a forest of fodder per day.

In fact, the Hebrew word Behemoth It is the intensive plural of b’hemat, which means beast; This is how Fray Luis de León explains it in his Exposition of the Book of Job:

“Behemoth It’s a Hebrew word, which is like saying beasts, animals. In the common opinion of all the doctors of it, it means elephant, so called because of its excessive greatness, which being an animal, is worth many.”

It is also asserted that God deprived Behemoth of his female, at the beginning of time, to prevent the spread of his rampaging species.

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