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Legion 49

BARRY WILLIAM HALE

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DESCRIPTION

Birthed from strange and ancient larvae, the demon Beelzebub is often heard but seldom seen. His presence throughout history is fleeting, sudden, ever evasive. Even in the light of modern studies, references to the ‘God of Ekron’ are scant and largely academic.

Barry William Hale has nurtured an early fascination with the order Diptera to develop a buzzing, post-modern grimoire-bestiarum. Drawn from many years practical experience working with Beelzebub and his servitors, Legion 49 provides us with a rare glimpse of ‘the Lord of the Flies’ and the dark quintessence of his Legion. In a series of short, de-constructionist essays the artist explores traditional methods of evocation and the myths surrounding Beelzebub, before providing an iconographical and sigillic recension of his horde of forty-nine servitors, glimpsed through the protective-symmetry of the paper-cut traditions of old Mexico.

Legion 49 is a fusion of styles, influences and approaches, the modern and ancient, direct and indirect, refined and raw: it seeks to capture for a moment that flitting, fleeting, Chaotic gnosis symbolised by the Lord of Flies.

DETAILS

Hardback
23cm x 17.5cm
160 pages
110 black and white
0.7 kg
English text

STATUS

OUT OF PRINT
Published June 2009
777 numbered copies only

CONTENTS

Larvae of God: The Conjurational Art of Barry William Hale – Robert Fitzgerald

LEGION 49
Conjuration, Constraint, Coercion and Congress
The Commonwealth of Hades
The Fortress of Paradise
The Childe of Innocence
The Sword: A Bridge of Iron and Tongue of Steel
Zoanthropy
Beelzebub: The Mighty Mysophilote
The Legion

Appendix

FURTHER INTEREST
Weight 1.15 kg
Dimensions 29 × 21 × 1 cm
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