DEMOGORGON

Updated 05-May-2020.

Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about DEMOGORGON!

Stranger Things: Cast Reveals What It Was Like Working with the Demogorgon: [tempo-video id=”5133341627001″ account=”416418724″] While the Stranger Things Demogorgon remains something of a mystery going into season 2, one thing’s been cleared up: The identity behind…

Boccaccio and the Ineffable, Aniconic God Demogorgon: In his encyclopedic Genealogia deorum gentilium, Giovanni Boccaccio lists and describes over 700 pagan gods organized within a single comprehensive genealogy. The first god, the ancestor of all the rest, is the illusive Demogorgon. Described as nearly invisible, hidden by clouds and gloom, with a name toο horrible to utter, Demogorgon will reappear in subsequent drama and literature, playing a decisive role in Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound. This article traces the origins of Demogorgon, first to the Erichtho passage in Lucan [6.744-747], wherein there is a similarly awesome but nameless spirit. Boccaccio cited and quoted this very passage, as he did the similar passage in Statius’ Thebaid [4.514-517]. Boccaccio then cites Lactantius [Placidus], who has been credited with creating the name “Demogorgon,” although the manuscript tradition does not bear reliable witness to the name until the twelfth century. Ultimately Demogorgon seems to derive from Plato’s demiourgos, although his benign creator god underwent a severe transformation during the intervening centuries. Boccaccio seems to follow as well a second tradition derived primarily from Theodontius, himself illusive, which derives ultimately from the archaic Greek Arcadian tradition.

Poema: Demogorgon – Álvaro de Campos – Poesia / Poemas no Citador: Na rua cheia de sol vago há casas paradas e gente que anda. / Uma tristeza cheia de pavor esfria-me. / Pressinto um acontecimento do lado de lá das frontarias e dos movimentos. / / Não, não, isso não…

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: art historian concludes that “Demogorgon is a grammatical error, become god” the name probably arises from an unknown copyist’s misreading of a commentary by a scholar . the concept itself the name is derived from a combination of the Greek words daimon and gorgós . the name Demogorgon is introduced in a discussion of thebaid 4.516 . prior to lactantius, there is no mention of the supposed “Demogorgon” anywhere . phantom word in one of the manuscript traditions took on a life of its own among later scholars . by the the historian and mythographer Jean Seznec determines in Demogorgon an allusion to the Demiurge of Plato’s Timaeus . in Milton’s epic poem Satan passes through this region the sixteenth-century Dutch demonologist Johann Weyer described Demogorgon as the master of fate in hell’s hierarchy . according to Ariosto’s lesser work I Cinque Canti, he has a Demogorgon is the central character in Voltaire’s 1756 short story “Plato’s Dream” he also appears as a character in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Prometheus in the poem “Demogorgon” by lvaro de Campos, the writer is afraid of becoming mad . he is known as the Prince of Demons, a self-proclaimed title . Demogorgon was named one of the greatest villains in D&D history by the final print issue of Dragon . he is depicted as an 18-foot-tall reptilian tanar’ri with this name is inspired by the Dungeons & Dragons creature . he is infamously the most powerful monster in the game . P.van de Woestijne, “Les scholies à la Thébade de Stace: remarques et suggestions” dates scholiast of Statius to ca pp. 31–62 Sylvain Matton, “La figure de Démogorgon dans la littérature alchimique” in Didier Kahn, “Alchimie, art, histoire et my ISBN 0-19-515123-2Dungeons & DragonsBennie, Scott. “Setting Saintly Standards”. Dragon #79 (TSR, Nov 1983). Carroll, Bart. D&D Alumni: Demogorgon Gygax, Gary. Come Endless Darkness (New Infinities, 1988). Gygax, Gary, and Brian Blume. Dungeon Master’s Guide (TSR, 1979). Holian, Gary. Holian, Gary. “Demogorgon’s Champions: The Death Knights of Oerth, part 2”. Dragon #290 (Paizo Publishing, Dec 2001). Jacobs, James. “The Demonomicon of Iggwilv: Demogorgon”. Dragon #357 (Paizo Publishing, 2007). Moore, Roger E. “A Stone’s Throw Away”. Dragon Spitler, Jeff, and Roger E Moore. “Meeting Demogorgon”. Dragon #36 (TSR, 1980).