Vepar appears in the corpus of Western ceremonial magic as an entry in the roster of named spirits in the Ars Goetia / Pseudomonarchia Daemonum tradition. In that system such entities are listed, given ranks (Vepar is presented as a Great Duke), assigned domains of influence (here, waters and naval phenomena), and credited with command over numbered legions of subordinate spirits; the supplied summaries present Vepar within this hierarchical, administrative model of the unseen world and do not provide a separate mythic cosmogony or narrative origin beyond her placement in the grimoire catalogue (Thelemapedia; Megami Tensei wiki; Wikipedia summary of the Ars Goetia list).
The sources supplied do not include a consistent, detailed corporeal description for Vepar. Summaries emphasize maritime association (guiding armoured ships, controlling seas) but do not quote a primary goetic appearance text for Vepar in full; therefore no single canonical visual form (human, hybrid, colouration, or iconographic attributes) is attested in the provided materials (Thelemapedia; Megami Tensei wiki; Wikipedia list).
According to the provided goetic summaries, Vepar is a Great Duke who rules twenty-nine legions and governs waters: she 'guides armoured ships laden with ammunition and weapons,' can 'make, if requested, the sea rough and stormy, and to appear full of ships,' and 'can make men die in three days by putrefying sores and wounds, causing worms to breed in them.' These effects are described as actions she can perform at the conjurer's request within the operational frame of the Ars Goetia-style spirit catalogue (Thelemapedia; Megami Tensei wiki).
Velikiy Poloz (The Great Snake)
A powerful snake-ruler from Ural miners' folklore as rendered in Pavel Bazhov's skaz "The Great Snake." Poloz is depicted as the proprietor and guardian of underground gold who can reveal or withdraw veins and who reacts to human behavior around claims.
Vellamo
Vellamo is a named water-being in Finnish traditional belief, a personified 'Mistress of Water' associated with lakes, seas, shores and fish. She appears in runic songs and in fishermen's spells as the being who presides over aquatic resources and is petitioned to bring fish into nets.
Velnias (Veles/Velinas)
Velnias (also attested as Veles in Slavic sources and Velinas/Velinas in Baltic references) is a chthonic figure associated with the underworld, cattle and animals, the boundary between life and death, and domains of magic, knowledge, divination and poetry. In pre-Christian contexts he functions as a powerful underworld deity and guarantor of oaths; in later Christianized materials he is sometimes reinterpreted in demonological terms.
Vengeful ghost
A cross-cultural category for spirits of deceased persons who return to the living world to seek redress for a wrong suffered in life. Commonly tied to violent, unjust, or improperly handled deaths and addressed by culturally specific rites of appeasement, exorcism, or corrective funerary treatment.
Vengeful spirit
A vengeful spirit is the spirit of a dead person who returns from the afterlife to seek revenge for a cruel, unnatural, or unjust death; in some cultures the form taken by an 'unhappy ghost' denied proper funerary rites. It functions in narrative as an agent of retribution against those perceived responsible for the original injustice.
Venus
Venus refers to two distinct but historically linked referents in the supplied sources: (1) the astronomical planet Venus, the second planet from the Sun with a dense CO2 atmosphere, extreme surface temperatures and thick sulfuric-acid clouds; and (2) Venus, the Roman goddess associated in summary form with love, sexuality, procreation and pleasure. The sources treat the planet with detailed physical and observational data and give only a brief statement of the goddess's domains.
Vesna (Slavic mythology)
Female mythological character associated with youth, springtime, renewal, growth, and fertility in South Slavic mythology. (Note: 1. The power tier should be Primordial since Vesna is a mythological character associated with cosmic forces (springtime and fertility) rather than regional or local spirits. 2. Add sensory cues from )
Vesta
Vesta is attested in the supplied sources as the Roman goddess of the hearth and home. The available materials are primarily a modern disambiguation entry and related references; they identify Vesta's cultic association (e.g., Temple of Vesta) but do not provide detailed mythic narratives, genealogies, or ritual texts in the excerpts given.
Vetala
A spirit that inhabits and reanimates corpses, possessing supernatural knowledge and the power to prophesy. One of the most feared beings in Shaiva tradition.
Vetala / Vetal (unsupported in supplied source)
The supplied source (a general article on ghosts in Bengali culture) does not mention or describe Vetala/Vetal. No information about a Vetala's nature, appearance, powers, rituals, or Maharashtrian variants is present in the provided material, so a Vetala entry cannot be reconstructed from that source alone.
Vichama
In Inca mythic accounts Vichama is described as a god of death who, according to available summaries, destroyed an earlier human race created by Pacha Kamaq and then caused a new human race to be born from three eggs. A short alternative attestation describes Vichama as a god who "personifies the day."
Vidyārāja (Myō-ō / Wisdom King)
A class of wrathful, protective figures in East Asian Esoteric (Vajrayāna/mikkyō) Buddhism identified by the Sanskrit term Vidyārāja ("knowledge/spell-king") and commonly rendered in Japanese as Myō-ō. They function as fierce guardians, ritual enforcers of esoteric doctrine, and mandalic emanations tied to buddhas and tantric functions.
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- [1]Vepar | Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick. Thelemapedia entry for Vepar (summary of goetic attributes: ducal rank, 29 legions, governs waters, guides armoured ships, can roughen sea)wiki
- [2]Vepar | Megami Tensei Wiki (Fandom) — summary of goetic attributes. Megami Tensei Wiki entry summarising Ars Goetia attributions: governs waters, guides armoured ships, 29 legions, causes putrefying sores that can kill in three dayswiki
- [3]List of demons in the Ars Goetia — Wikipedia. Wikipedia overview noting the Ars Goetia roster and variant spellings arising from translations (supports statement on multiple spellings and the grimoire context)wiki