Choronzon, the Demon of the
Abyss, the
Stooping Dragon with Eight Heads which struck at the
Crown of the
Tree of Life and failed to attain it, become lost within the confusion of
falsehood which is "
knowledge," called in
Hebrew "
Da'ath." Choronzon is without substance and is "
legion," being an
infinite concatenation of various
disconnected impressions vifified into the
delusion of
sentience and
self-existence by the various
scraps of ego which may follow a
magician into the Abyss. The Demon Choronzon will devour (presumably by subsuming "them" into itselfs) anyone without the proper momentum to cross the Abyss, or who is unable to keep
Silence, which is the one condition which the Demon, in its mad confusion, cannot abide.
In terms of mythological imagery, Choronzon has been described variously as a
howling beast, a
black snake, the black
dragon of death, a
mirror, and, perhaps most bizarrely, a
pig. Pigs were apparently associated with a certain ancient
chthonic diety called
Chozzar, and also associated with
Typhon-Set. The pig is one of the only animals which will readily eat
excrement, and the consumption of the particular excrement of
menstrual blood is particularly relevant to the practices of Typhonian magicians, or so it is said...