Blessing: Agathos Daimon is a protective deity, originally concerned with the home and individual, but in Alexandria became the patron of the city as well. He is concerned with prosperity, fertility, spiritual evolution.
Equated with: Serapis, Zeus, Shai, Osiris
Associations: Snake, cornucopia, rhyton, wine, barley, all produce of the fields
Festivals:
The foundation of Alexandria (25 Tybi)
Noumenia (1st of each lunar month)
Ways to honor: Keep your home as a temple to him; clean it as a devotion; make offerings to the other gods on his behalf; care for snakes; ecstasy and trance-work
Ancient Texts:
Excerpt from Alexander Romance by Pseudo-Kallisthenes
Excerpt from Anabasis by Arrian
Excerpt from Life of Cleomenes by Plutarch
Excerpt from On Animals by Aelian
Excerpt from On Divination by Cicero
Three Excerpts from Papyri Graecae Magicae
Modern Texts: Forthcoming
Essays:
Reflections on the Agathos Daemon by Astalon
Agathos Daemon and Zeus by Melia Suez
Links
On the Daemon
Agathos Daimon
A miscellany of passages on Agathos Daimon
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