Demogorgon with Ouroboros and Diana. Demogorgon is a deity or demon, associated with the underworld and envisaged as a powerful primordial being, whose very name had been taboo.
Although often ascribed to Greek mythology, the name probably arises from an unknown copyist's misreading of a commentary by a fourth-century scholar, Lactantius Placidus. The concept itself though can be traced back to the original misread term demiurge.
The origins of the name Demogorgon are not entirely clear, though the most prevalent scholarly view now considers it to be a misreading of the Greek based on the manuscript variations in the earliest known explicit reference in Lactantius Placidus. Boccaccio, in his influential Genealogia Deorum Gentilium, cites a now lost work by Theodontius, and that master's acknowledged Byzantine source, Pronapides the Athenian, as authority for the idea that Demogorgon is the antecedent of all the gods.
Art historian Jean Seznec concludes that Demogorgon is a grammatical error, become god. The name variants cited by Jahnke include the Latin demoirgon, emoirgon, demogorgona, demogorgon, with the first critical editor Friedrich Lindenbrog having conjectured as the prototype in 1600.
Various other theories suggest that the name is derived from a combination of the Greek words daimon, or, less likely ῆ demos, and gorgos or Gorgon, the Ancient Greek monsters first attested in Hesiod's Theogony. Demogorg
Although often ascribed to Greek mythology, the name probably arises from an unknown copyist's misreading of a commentary by a fourth-century scholar, Lactantius Placidus. The concept itself though can be traced back to the original misread term demiurge.
The origins of the name Demogorgon are not entirely clear, though the most prevalent scholarly view now considers it to be a misreading of the Greek based on the manuscript variations in the earliest known explicit reference in Lactantius Placidus. Boccaccio, in his influential Genealogia Deorum Gentilium, cites a now lost work by Theodontius, and that master's acknowledged Byzantine source, Pronapides the Athenian, as authority for the idea that Demogorgon is the antecedent of all the gods.
Art historian Jean Seznec concludes that Demogorgon is a grammatical error, become god. The name variants cited by Jahnke include the Latin demoirgon, emoirgon, demogorgona, demogorgon, with the first critical editor Friedrich Lindenbrog having conjectured as the prototype in 1600.
Various other theories suggest that the name is derived from a combination of the Greek words daimon, or, less likely ῆ demos, and gorgos or Gorgon, the Ancient Greek monsters first attested in Hesiod's Theogony. Demogorg
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