Vassago

Vassago appears third in the Ars Goetia, where he is a prince commanding twenty-six legions. His office is to disclose past and future events and discover what has been hidden or lost. The entry describes his disposition as good and compares his nature with Agares.^[1][2]

A brief description#

Vassago receives no elaborate animal form in this entry. A modern image of him therefore adds something that the standard Goetic description leaves open. The absence is conspicuous beside Agares's crocodile and hawk or Marbas's lion: some entries specify an appearance, while others depend largely on a name, office, and seal.

The claim to recover lost things makes Vassago one of several spirits whose offices address an ordinary human concern. Other entries combine treasure-finding with threats or transformation. Vassago's description instead emphasizes the spirit's helpful disposition within the operator's ceremonial framework.^[2]

Transmission#

Vassago is among the Goetic entries absent from Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum. His inclusion helps show that the Goetia expands and rearranges earlier catalogues rather than copying one list without alteration. Peterson's manuscript edition identifies this difference in its notes.^[1]

Later devotional descriptions can give Vassago a fuller personality or additional correspondences. Those accounts are separate sources. The historical entry supplies a prince, a limited set of offices, and a seal; it does not supply every color, offering, or astrological association now attached to the name online.

See also#

• Agares
• Divination
• Pseudomonarchia Daemonum

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