Sigil of Sallos
At a glance
- Entry
- 19 of 72
- Rank
- Duke
- Legions
- 30 in the text
- Also written
- Saleos
Description in the text
Sallos is another figure whose assigned office concerns love between women and men. Unlike some of the more threatening entries, the source explicitly describes his appearance as peaceable.
Read entry 19 on page 27 of the 1916 edition
Appearance
A crowned soldier riding a crocodile, described as peaceful in manner.
Topics attributed to this entry
- Love
- Peaceable appearance
Reading this entry
Sallos, also called Saleos, rides a crocodile in the guise of a crowned soldier. The passage specifically says his manner is peaceful. That note separates him from Agares, another crocodile rider, and from the frightening royal entrances elsewhere in the list. His only stated office is causing love between women and men. The text provides no additional claim about prophecy, knowledge, or conflict.
The ducal crown and the title of duke reinforce one another, but the source does not explain why the peaceful soldier rides a crocodile. Avoiding an invented symbolic reading keeps the description close to the primary passage. Sallos has 30 legions and a seal in the edition. As with the other love-related entries, the attributed influence over other people’s feelings should be understood as a claim made by the grimoire, not as a real-world technique.
Read entry 19 on page 27 of the 1916 edition or compare the 1904 transcription.
A closer reading of entry 19
What the numbered text says
Sallos arrives as a crowned soldier on a crocodile, an imposing combination modified by the final word “peaceably.” That adverb is the main character judgment given here. His stated office is affection between women and men; the passage offers no timing, ceremony, prophecy, or account of a particular relationship. Its alternate Saleos spelling names the same nineteenth spirit, not another duke.
About the printed seal
The 1916 third frontispiece assigns sign 19 to Sallos. A source label can connect the mark to both printed names, but its strokes cannot establish why the prose calls the arrival peaceful. The image and the descriptive adverb are different kinds of evidence.
Compare another entry
Compare entry 13: Beleth. Beleth is a king with a pale horse and music and a much longer, angry arrival scene. Sallos is a duke whose crocodile-mounted portrait is explicitly peaceable. Both have love claims, yet the catalogue frames their temperaments and status quite differently.