I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night." I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him. I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock. I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me. I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love. - Song of Songs, 5:2-8, The Bible Poet, King James translation
The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out, you left me in the dark; no dawn, no day, I’m always in the twilight of the shadow of your heart. - Florence and the Machine, "Cosmic Love”
He wants to tell the how much he adores them, how he loves them. How that while he’s supposed to be the light-bearer, MC’s the light in his life.
He cannot get the words out. He smirks at them instead of the soft smile he wants to give them. He’s cold and not warm. He tries to be soft with them, it comes out in small bits, but not as often as he wished it would.
He’s worried that MC will get fed up with this and will leave him for someone that can express their emotions more readily and be more vulnerable with them. He’s going to try, he should be good at everything, he’s Lucifer. But this is something he struggles with.
Mammon
He’s a screwup, a scum bag, good for nothing. He knows it. Everyone knows it. Well, everyone but them. And he’s terrified that they’ll wizen up to it.
He’s terrified that they’ll stop forgiving him, stop standing up for him, will call him the same names that everyone throws at him.
He tries to not be such a loser. He tries so hard, but his greed gets to him and he messes up again. He punishes himself more than Lucifer could even try to.
Leviathan
He’s holding them back and people will start to think awful things of them just for associating themselves with him.
He does not want them to get the sort of reputation he has as some loser, shut-in. He knows he’s not good enough, but he doesn’t want them to start thinking that.
He’s worried that they’ll see that it’ll happen – even if it doesn’t – and they’ll start to actually believe it and turn away from him.
He wants to hold onto them tightly, he doesn’t want to lose his only friend.
Satan
He’s terrified that MC will become terrified of him. He tries so hard to keep his cool around them and to make sure they don’t see the hideous monster that he is.
He knows that it’s only a matter of time before they run in to see him truly wrathful, the monster that everyone has warned them about, the monster that will drive them away.
He wants them to know that he will never hurt them, that he would never do anything to hurt them, that they are safe.
But he knows that seeing a monster can mean more than his words.
Asmodeus
He realizes he has a reputation as the Avatar of Lust. He’s worried that the reputation will make them think that he doesn’t truly love them, even though he loves them more than anything, even himself.
He’s worried that his looks won’t be enough to keep them. His looks can convey how much he loves them, even if he were to tattoo it on his flawless skin.
He tries so hard to show that he does love them, that he is faithful to them. That he would never cheat on them or betray them. That everything will be with their consent.
He loves them, but he doesn’t know how to prove it.
Beelzebub
He’s terrified he won’t be able to protect them when they need him most. He feels he’s already let them down throughout the year, but now that fear is even worse
He’s already felt the burden of failing one loved one – and in response, the rest of his loved ones – he can’t stand the thought of it happening again.
He stands at their bodyguard whenever he thinks that they could potentially be in danger, always on alert and on the lookout.
Still, the thoughts are always in the back of his head and plague his nightmares.
Belphegor
Being awake and present is difficult for him. He’s worried that he won’t be able to be there for MC like they deserve. He does work on trying to be more awake, getting into a proper sleep cycle, chugging caffeine, but he’s still always exhausted.
He falls asleep when he doesn’t want to and he’s worried MC will get fed up with that. Fed up that he’s too tired to go out. He’ll try, but it’s hard.
He becomes a bit indifferent because of this, even though he does care to the point where it tears him up inside.
Diavolo
He has a very important job as the successor to the throne and he’s worried that it will drive a wedge between them.
He has to prioritize his job over them at times and he’s worried that they may not understand.
He’s worried that him being a demon and them being a human will be too much for them, especially given his role.
He’ll try his best to communicate and be upfront about it, but he feels they deserve more than a prince could give them.
Barbatos
His abilities lead to rumors spreading like wildfires. He’s fearful that rumors will spread that he used his powers to force them to be with him.
The thoughts get to him and he wonders if he unconsciously used his powers to force them to be with him. It tears him apart at the thought of even doing it.
He wonders if they would be happy with anyone else, the realities are out there. He just wants them to be the happiest that they could ever be – even if it’s not with him.
Simeon
If he doesn’t belong in the Celestial Realm, he doesn’t belong in the Devildom, does he truly belong with them?
He’s processing what’s happened to him, slowly. He’ll come to terms with it eventually, but he wonders if MC will process it well.
Will they reject him just as he’s been rejected by others?
He wants a home to go to, he feels that their arms are his home, but he doesn’t want those arms to push him away.
Solomon
All of the demons know him as the shady sorcerer for trying to form pacts with them and understand the workings of the Devildom to ensure the safety of the human realm.
Still, those rumors have even spread to other sorcerers and witches to where they also don’t trust him.
He tries his best to be genuine with them, even if he can be a bit mischievous.
He desperately wants them to trust him, he would never do anything to betray that trust if they gave it to him.
It’s elegant, it screams sophistication, and it makes people think he’s someone important, which he is.
He can drink some demonus in the back and not have to worry about getting anywhere. Sometimes, he’ll just tell the driver to drive around so he doesn’t have to go to an event or back home right away.
Don’t tell him they’re also associated with annoying kids for prom
It’s also big enough to where he can pick up his brothers if there’s something going on
Mammon: Sports Car
He likes driving any sports car, really. Though, his own car will always be his favorite.
He likes how expensive they are, how they look, and how fast they can go.
He never really makes his own car go fast, he’s scared that all of his hard work will go up in flames if he wrecks it.
Will still rent a sports car every now and then to show off
Leviathan:Boat
He likes being out on the water and boats are typically not as crowded as other methods of transportation.
He also feels like that if it is crowded and if he gets overwhelmed, he can escape on all sides of the boat.
He shouldn’t, he knows that, but the option’s always there if he really gets desperate
He can also secretly have Lotan swim alongside the boat if the water’s deep/dark enough.
Satan: Aerial Tramways
He doesn’t know why, but being up high is appealing. He likes being able to see around a large area and see what’s going on.
Perhaps it’s because he doesn’t have wings that he appreciates this more than his other brothers.
He also likes that Lucifer is uncomfortable being in high places when he’s not in control of it.
Will hold that over Lucifer for a very long time.
Asmodeus: Double Decker Bus
He likes being able to sightsee on these buses and people watch more easily than on other methods of transportation.
They usually drive by some cool places, which is always great for a selfie
He gets that natural windblown look, too.
If he gets cold or if the weather turns, he can go to the lower level, no problem
Beelzebub: Party Bike
He likes the aspect of being able to exercise while he’s being transported from one location to the next. In fact, for this, he can give the bike enough power so he can be the only passenger on it.
He can also eat all of the food and drink all of the drinks as the only passenger, too
He does like it when his family joins him, it’s more fun
The only downside is that the party bike never has enough food for him.
Belphegor: Being Carried Around
He likes just falling asleep everywhere he goes. If someone’s carrying him, he doesn’t have to worry about missing his stop. They’ll take him where he needs to go
It’s nice, too, because he knows that his family does actually care for him and doesn’t just tolerate him
He will try to be annoying about it and just suddenly put all of his weight on someone until they are forced to at least drag him somewhere
Diavolo:Walking
He likes to walk around his kingdom to see how things are going and check in on his people.
It’s nice that he has this freedom now after being locked up as a child in his castle.
He does tend to wander while he’s walking around, so he has to keep track of the twists and turns he takes
He has had to call either Lucifer or Barbatos to come and find him - He knows he could use his GPS, but he wants to show them what he found.
Barbatos:Train
He enjoys being able to sit by a window on a train and just relax
He can finally tune out and not worry about the next task at hand - that’ll occur when he gets to his next stop.
He can take time to do some hobbies if he wishes: knitting, reading, sipping a cup of tea, whatever he pleases
He does also enjoy sampling different foods on the dining carts for the more upscale trains
Simeon:Funiculars
A lot of forms of transportation have buttons that he can’t ever figure out. For a funicular, there’s not much for him to do except get on and just relax
He likes that they usually provide a unique view while still being on the ground
The very steep ones are also very exciting and he thinks that they should be impossible - but there they are
Luke:Unicycle
It took him a lot of practice to get good enough to try it
Mammon was the one that had first helped him with it. He would never admit it, but it was fun
Now he enjoys the praise he gets from others when he’s able to get around with no problem
Makes him taller, too. The others can’t call him short when he’s riding it
Solomon:Subway
It’s not necessarily the subway that he enjoys, but rather the subway station
There are also such a vast variety of people that take the subway and he likes to watch them
Sometimes he’ll hustle with some low-key magic tricks that could be considered just trick of the eye - it’s real magic, shhh
It’s a reminder that he loves how chaotic people can be
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Solomon Enthroned with Angels, Beasts, and Demons Iran (1575-90) [Source]
The arrival of King Solomon from “The Book of Wonders of the Age” Iran (1600s-1700s) [Source]
In both the Biblical and Islamic narratives, Solomon /Sulaiman / سليمان is a wise and mighty King of the Jews. But he’s got a different set of tales in Islam - and he’s all the more baller for it.
For instance, he shows off his wisdom even as a kid, surpassing his father in judgment of a case of a shepherd whose sheep has eaten up a grape farmer’s vines (he said the shepherd had to restore the vines while the grape farmer could live off the wool and milk of his sheep).
When Solomon inherited the position of king over Israel, he prayed to God to grant him a kingdom which would be greater than that of any after him. God accepted Solomon’s prayer and gave him what he pleased. It was at this stage that Solomon began to acquire the many gifts that God would bestow upon him throughout his life.
The Quran narrates that the wind was made subservient to Solomon, and he could control it of his own will, and that the jinn also came under Solomon’s control. The jinn helped strengthen Solomon’s reign, building for him monuments, houses of worship, artwork, and reservoirs. God also caused a miraculous spring of liquid brass to flow for Solomon, inevitably to be used by the jinn in their construction. Solomon was even taught the languages of various animals, in particular all the birds.
Solomon enthroned with Peris, Aaṣaf, jinns, animals and birds India (1800s) [Source]
The Quran recounts that, one day, Solomon and his army entered a valley, where there were many ant colonies. On seeing Solomon and his army, one of the ants warned all the others to “…get into your habitations, lest Solomon and his hosts crush you (under foot) without knowing it.” Immediately understanding what the ant said, Solomon, as always, prayed to God, thanking Him for bestowing upon him such gifts andfurther avoided trampling over the ant colonies.
Solomon’s wisdom, however, was yet another of the gifts he received from God, and Muslims strongly maintain that Solomon never forgot his daily prayer, which, to him, was more important than any of his gifts.
Another important aspect of Solomon’s kingship was the size of his army, which consisted of both men and jinn. Solomon would frequently assess his troops and warriors as well as the jinn and all the animals who worked under him. One day, when inspecting his troops, Solomon found the hoopoe missing from the assembly. Shortly later, the hoopoe, however, arrived to Solomon’s court, saying “I have compassed (territory) which thou hast not compassed, and I have come to thee from Saba with tidings true.”
This is where the Queen of Sheba comes in. I’ve blogged about her before for Africa Week; but her story’s so important in Islam that I think I’ll keep it for my subsequent post.
So we’ll jump ahead to his rather unfortunate death:
When Solomon was to die, he stood up in prayer holding his cane. There he silently died, but, by God’s will, did not fall. He remained in this position, and everyone including the jinn thought that he was still alive. Finally God ordered a termite to weaken the cane so that the body of Solomon fell. It was thereafter believed that the jinn (along with all humans) [realised that they] did not know everything and only God had knowledge of all.
Alas! But Solomon/Sulaiman was no slouch: he’s regarded as one of the three great monarchs of all time, and that includes King David/Dawud and Dhul-Qarnayn, who’sprobably Alexander the Great.
So good night, sweet prince, and may jinns and hoopoes sing thee to thy rest:
King Solomon enthroned on lacquer chest with weights and scales, for weighing jewellery Iran (1840) [Source], [Source]
I found an article that explains why Solomon was given the gift of speaking in the language of birds:
“Birds,” writes Albertus Magnus, “generally call more than other animals. This is due to the lightness of their spirits.” Although Albertus here employs “lightness” (levitas) as a technical term, the broader valences of the word are very significant; a lightness of spirit does not only indicate one who is fickle, flighty, and unconcerned with the problems of the world (as we see in its cognates légèreté in French and levity in English), but can also suggest a state of moral purity and innocence. The etymological relationship between lightness (levis) and light itself (lux, both from the Indo-European root leuk-) adds another level of interpretive meaning—as Dante illustrates in the Divina Commedia, sin is both dark and heavy, a kind of moral weight that crushes the body and hinders spiritual progress. As creatures of light and levity, whose wings take them beyond the borders of terra firma that demarcate the domain of man, birds can be seen as residing in a state of proximity to the spiritual world that no other living thing may access; their myriad and musical songs only reinforce their depiction as bearers of secret knowledge, concealed by a secret tongue.
Solomon, wisest of all kings, is granted the ability to speak with the birds in both Jewish and Islamic tradition; the Qur’anic passage ʿulimnā manṭiq al-ṭayr (“We were taught the language of birds,” Qur’an 27:16) is directly referenced by the Persian poet and mystic Farid al-Din ʿAttar (d. c. 1221) in his well-known Manṭiq al-Ṭayr, a metaphysical journey into the sublime realm of unity, usually translated into English as The Conference of the Birds. Birds have long played the role of messengers of heavenly tidings and portents in Jewish and Hellenic augury, while the Holy Spirit takes the form of a dove at Jesus’s baptism in the Bible (Luke 3:22) and is similarly depicted at the Annunciation in Christian iconography. Birds are found in the liminal spaces at the ends of the earth: in the early Irish Voyages (immrama) of Bran (8th c.) and St. Brendan (10th c.), birds are found to sing the Canonical Hours in the Isles of Earthly Paradise and transform into angels.”
From“That Melodious Linguist: Eloquence and Piety in Christian and Islamic Songbirds”
I’ve never seen an Islamic scholar explain that part so I don’t know if that’s right, but it makes sense to me. I never understood why Suleiman had that seemingly random ability.
“You know, I am really happy to have come here. if I died in that room. I wouldn’t have met you, Ugo, Arba, and everyone who is part of this big family. That’s why I will do my best! I will use all of my strength to always be with everyone”
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