Demon of the Month

Cultures with monotheistic religions have often steamrollered supposedly economically and technologically less developed polytheistic, animist or atheist cultures into accepting "Only one God and no other God than the Big Cheese".

Nevertheless, the deities of some cults have been assimilated into Big Cheese models and given the rank of Angels (Flight Lieutenant) or demons (Oberleutnant of the underworld boiler stoking department). In Christian demonology the mission of demons is to induce humans to abandon the faith, commit heresy or apostasy, become pagan, venerate idols or to promote non-Big Cheese models of interpreting the universe. One such demon was Beelzebub or Ba‘al Zebûb, who was F6 a deity worshipped in the Philistine city of Ekron.

The sixteenth century saw the appearance of the belief that each demon had a specific month of the year in which he/she/it had more strength to accomplish its mission.

And who should July’s "Demon of the Month" be but Beelzebub?

According to Binsfeld's Classification of Demons (1589), Beelzebub was top dog in the gluttony department, although in 1613 Sebastian Michaelis assigned him/her/it to the job of executive pride manager, a position with far greater responsibility.