female: Astarte, or Ishtar, a goddess of the Middle-East roughly similar to Venus  male: Astaroth, as depicted in the Goetia This lecture will begin covering the grimoires and Goetic tradition, which is a curious anomaly in the history of magic. To adequately understand the Goetia, we must go back to the backdrop which the entities … Continue reading Lecture 3: Demons and Djinn, Part 1