Sigil of Amon
At a glance
- Entry
- 7 of 72
- Rank
- Marquis
- Legions
- 40 in the text
Description in the text
Amon is credited with telling the past and future. The text also says he can provoke feuds and reconcile disagreements between friends, giving him opposed roles in human relationships.
Read entry 7 on page 23 of the 1916 edition
Appearance
A wolf with a serpent tail and fiery breath, later taking a raven-headed human form.
Topics attributed to this entry
- Past and future
- Discord
- Reconciliation
Reading this entry
Amon appears first as a wolf with a serpent’s tail and flames from the mouth. In human form the description becomes unstable: one version retains doglike teeth beneath a ravenlike head, while another simply calls the head a raven’s. The cited text itself presents these alternatives. It is therefore more faithful to describe the variation than to insist on a single precise portrait.
Amon is a stern marquis credited with knowledge of past and future events. He is also said both to start feuds and to reconcile disputes between friends. The opposing social offices are written into the same passage, not assigned by later interpretation. The combination of changeable body and reversible relationships makes the entry notable, while its 40 legions and seal place it within the catalogue’s standard hierarchy.
Read entry 7 on page 23 of the 1916 edition or compare the 1904 transcription.
A closer reading of entry 7
What the numbered text says
Amon’s human-form sentence contains an explicit “or else”: one version has dog’s teeth in a raven-like head, the other simply a raven’s head. That is an alternative inside the printed description, not a disagreement that a modern illustrator has to settle. The same entry assigns opposed social effects, the starting of feuds and the reconciliation of friends, alongside past-and-future knowledge.
About the printed seal
Amon’s numbered drawing is seal 7 on the 1916 plate. The text supplies animal parts, flame, and variant human heads, but gives no key that maps any of these details to a stroke in the seal. The printed witness therefore does not support a pictorial decoding of the seal.
Compare another entry
Compare entry 11: Gusion. Gusion also receives a reconciliation office, but the account does not say he provokes a feud first. Amon’s paired capacity to create and resolve conflict is a distinct qualification, especially when the two are grouped under broad “relationships” tags.