Hagith is the Venus-associated Olympic governor named in the Arbatel. The 1575 Basel print and Turner’s later English version preserve different forms of his account.
- Planetary category
- Venus ♀
- 1575 province line
- 21
- Source passage
- Aphorisms 16–17
Place in the seven-name list
Hagith is fifth in the name sequence, assigned 21 provinces on the 1575 page and connected to Venus in Aphorism 17. The passage claims that Hagith can grant beauty, change copper to gold and gold to copper, and provide spirits said to serve faithfully. It also gives a number of legions and a scheme of kings appointed over them. Those details belong to the book’s imagined government of the cosmos. They are not observations about the astronomical Venus, and they should not be treated as proof of practical alchemy.
What the book attributes
The sixteenth-century text also places the seven governors beneath divine permission and within an opening series of explicitly Christian aphorisms. That frame matters for Hagith because a modern “Venus spirit for love spells” label can import contemporary aims that are not the focus of this particular paragraph. The passage emphasizes beauty and metallic change; it does not present a comprehensive modern relationship-reading service. Romance claims and specific ritual techniques come from later interpretations rather than this paragraph.
The printed record
Hagith’s 21 provinces continue the descending sevenfold sequence after Och’s 28 and before Ophiel’s 14. The figure is not involved in the Bethor arithmetic fault, but it helps identify why editors emend that earlier number. The photographed leaf places all seven governors and their province counts in one sequence. Hagith’s digitized character preserves the early printed form; a clean modern sigil is a separate later illustration even when it resembles that form.
