Asmodeus
Proper noun
Meaning
A prince of demons, commonly representing lust.
In Judeo-Islamic lore, the king of earthly spirits.
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Asmodeus the great king of the demons has as a mate the Lesser (younger) Lilith, daughter of the king whose name is Qafsefoni.
Asmodeus then swallowed the king, stood up fully with one wing touching heaven and the other earth, and spat out Solomon to a distance of 400 miles.
In another familiar version of the legend of the Seal of Solomon, Asmodeus disguises himself.
In one tale, Asmodeus brought a man with two heads from under the earth to show Solomon; the man, unable to return, married a woman from Jerusalem and had seven sons, six of whom resembled the mother, while one resembled the father in having two heads.
In this case Asmodeus and Lilith were believed to procreate demonic offspring endlessly and spread chaos at every turn.
Schwartz p.7 Asmodeus was already well known by this time because of the legends about him in the Talmud.