On the Occult Philosophy or the Secret Miraculous Birth of the Seven Planets and Metals

which Lucpificus had built for his burial and had erected in the church of Proserpina in the Orient. Then a spirit named Adad came and blew upon the ashes with force in the middle of the temple where the altar of the sacrifice stood, and the breath was very warm. As soon as the ashes stirred again, and a living animal became of it, many high-ranking people marveled at it. It had many feathers on its arms and legs, and the head was also adorned with feathers, and two mighty serpents had surrounded its body up to the top. The feet were surrounded by serpents, and wings hung from its legs, and all the country folk and the inhabitants marveled at the animal, and no one knew how to give it a name. Then a lightning bolt happened quickly from above, and a clear, understandable voice called into it:

You should not marvel at all at what the animal shall be called. I am a swift messenger to announce to you the new tidings, and I am called Stelbon, a messenger dispatched from the Highest to announce the name of the animal and its nature,