Leviathan

LEVIATHAN

As the Grand Admiral of Hell, Leviathan is a mighty Demon Lord that controls the power of water, and commands the depths and all who dwell within them.

Who Leviathan is to practitioners today

Leviathan is the great serpent of the deep, the Crown Prince of the West and of Water, and for the people who work with this spirit today Leviathan is less a demon you call for a favor and more a tide you learn to swim in. Ask demonolaters, theistic Satanists and Draconian practitioners what Leviathan is like and the same words come back again and again: heavy, ancient, vast, slow, stabilizing.

People come to Leviathan for emotional strength, for the courage to go down into their own depths, for resilience after trauma, and for the raw primordial power that sits underneath the more human-faced spirits of the Left Hand Path. Some meet Leviathan as a sea dragon, some as a blue serpent of light, some as a pressure in the chest like deep water.

This page starts with how people actually work with Leviathan now, the prayers they use, the questions they ask and what they report, and ends with what the old books say.

Our earlier page put it plainly: working with Leviathan is not for the faint of heart, but those who do it well describe great rewards, spiritual and physical, and some report gaining the power to move large amounts of energy and to work with the forces of nature.

Why people work with Leviathan

People search for the right spirit for the right purpose. These are the reasons practitioners come to Leviathan, from the oldest and best-known to what people actually ask for today.

Classic reasons

• Emotional mastery: learning to hold strong feelings without being drowned by them
• Depth and the unconscious: diving into the hidden layers of the mind, dreams and memory
• Resilience: the endurance of something that has outlived every storm
• Primordial power: contact with the old chaos that existed before order was imposed
• Water magick: the element of the West, ruling cleansing, flow, intuition and the sea
• Envy turned to fuel: using jealousy and longing as a map of what you truly want
• Protection: the coiled serpent around what is yours
• Initiation into the Draconian current: the serpent and dragon path of the Left Hand Path
• Familiars of the deep: command over the creatures of the water, given as familiars

Modern reasons

• Emotional stability: people pray to Leviathan when their feelings swing wildly, and many describe the spirit as a heavy, steadying weight
• Shadow and trauma work: practitioners work with Leviathan to bring up what has been buried and finally process it
• Self-worth: several people report a stronger sense of their own value after months of inner work with Leviathan
• Anxiety and overwhelm: people petition Leviathan for the calm that sits beneath the waves, even when the surface is wild
• Dealing with jealousy: some cast spells with Leviathan to transform their own envy, and others to turn away the envy aimed at them
• Breaking free of people-pleasing: learning to stop bending to every current around you
• Intuition and psychic development: people summon Leviathan before scrying, especially water scrying, to sharpen inner sight
• Dream work: asking Leviathan to guide them through the deep places of sleep
• Protection of home and family: calling on the great serpent to coil around a household
• Power in business and negotiation: for staying unmoved under pressure and outlasting a rival
• Grief: letting sorrow move through like a tide instead of freezing it
• A patron of the deep path: some simply invoke Leviathan to ask for a long relationship and initiation

Traditional, for reference

What the old texts and demonologies assign Leviathan. This is historical background, not modern practice.

• Ugaritic myth: Lotan, the twisting sea serpent, servant of the sea god Yam, defeated by Baal Hadad
• Hebrew Bible: the untameable monster of the sea in Job 41, Psalm 74 and Isaiah 27
• 1 Enoch: the female monster of the watery abyss, partnered with the male Behemoth of the desert
• Peter Binsfeld (1589): the demon of envy among the seven princes of the deadly sins
• Abramelin: one of the four superior princes over the spirits, alongside Lucifer, Satan and Belial (Mathers’ translation)

Leviathan at a glance

• Name: Hebrew livyatan, usually read as “twisted” or “coiled one”
• Older name: Lotan (Litan) of the Ugaritic texts
• Rank: one of the four superior princes in Abramelin; in modern demonolatry and our tradition, Crown Prince of the West and Grand Admiral of Hell
• Gender: experienced as male, female or neither; 1 Enoch describes Leviathan as female
• Sibling and counterpart: Behemoth, the beast of the land
• Enn: Jaden Tasa Hoet Naca Leviathan (see our demonic enns page)

Correspondences

Used in Black Witch Coven (from our own practice and modern demonolatry):

• Element: Water
• Direction: West. Set up your altar to Leviathan in this direction when spell casting or during ritual
• Candles: Red, Black
• Incense, resins, oils: Sandalwood, Myrrh, Frankincense, Copal, Patchouli, Leviathan’s Oleum
• Salt: Black salt
• Animals: Sea serpents, dragons, whales and all great creatures of the deep

Also used by other practitioners:

• Colors: Deep blue, Sea green, Silver
• Planet: the Moon, for its pull on the tides
• Day: Monday
• Altar items: Seawater, sea salt, shells, driftwood, a bowl of moving or fresh water
• Stones: Aquamarine, Lapis lazuli, Black obsidian, Labradorite, Pearl
• Places: the ocean, rivers, waterfalls, storms at sea

Working with Leviathan today

The old grimoires give no devotional rite for Leviathan. What follows is the practice that has grown up in living demonolatry, theistic Satanic and Draconian communities, together with how we approach Leviathan in Black Witch Coven.

Know what you are calling

What experienced practitioners describe most often is getting to know Leviathan directly before asking for anything: sitting with the sigil, asking questions about Leviathan rather than about themselves, and listening. People who open with a demand, or who arrive with arrogance, often describe the contact later as unclear or painful. People who arrive curious and patient tend to describe a slow, deepening bond. One practitioner who has carried Leviathan’s presence for years said the arrogance of their first request was the thing they most wished they could take back.

Sigil and enn

Draw the sigil by hand. Many practitioners draw it in blue or black ink, or trace it in water on a dark surface so it can be wiped away and redrawn. Then:

• Gaze daily. Ten minutes, soft eyes, slow breathing, with the sense of sinking rather than rising.
• Chant the enn. Jaden Tasa Hoet Naca Leviathan, low and rolling, like waves breaking. Let your voice drop as the room changes.
• Feel for weight. Leviathan’s arrival is most often described as a heaviness, as if the air has become water.
• Keep it near water. Some keep the sigil under a bowl of water on the altar, refreshing the water each time they work.

The altar

Face it West. Leviathan’s altars tend to look like the sea floor: dark cloth, blue light, things the tide has left behind. Common items:

• The sigil, hand-drawn
• Red, black or deep blue candles
• A bowl of water, ideally seawater or water from a moving river
• Black salt and sea salt
• Shells, driftwood, sea glass, a serpent or dragon figure
• Something of your own emotional life, such as a journal or a letter you have not sent

Practitioners consistently say Leviathan dislikes stagnant energy, and they change the water often rather than let it go stale on the altar.

Offerings

• Water: fresh seawater, river water, rainwater from a storm
• Salt: sea salt or black salt poured out in a spiral
• Incense: sandalwood, myrrh, frankincense, copal, patchouli
• Drink: dark rum, red wine, or salt water with a little rum poured into the sea
• Seafood: fish or shellfish, offered and then returned to the water or the earth
• Time by the water: meditation at the shore, a river or a waterfall, dedicated to Leviathan
• Tears and honesty: a cry you have been holding back, offered on purpose
• Blood: a drop of your own blood in the bowl of seawater or on the sigil, life force given to the deep
• Inner work: a month of journaling, therapy-style self-examination, or facing a memory you have avoided

Our earlier page also recorded that Leviathan has long been honored with invocations, offerings and other sacrifices. The offering people mention most today is inner work. As one practitioner put it, working with Leviathan means owning your faults and working through what hurt you, and that effort is the gift.

Timing

• Monday: the Moon’s day, ruler of the tides
• High tide: for drawing something in or building strength
• Low tide: for releasing, cleansing and letting go
• Full moon: the strongest tides of the month
• Storms: heavy rain and wild weather are a favorite time for larger rites
• Night: Leviathan is a spirit of the dark water, and many work after dusk

A tide app on your phone is the most useful tool you will own for this spirit.

Signs of contact

• Weight: the most common sign, a heavy pressure on the chest and shoulders that can feel crushing or deeply grounding
• Cold: a damp chill, the feeling of standing in deep water
• Serpents: a coiling sensation around the body, or a vision of a great serpent or dragon
• Blue light: one practitioner described Leviathan arriving as a blue serpent of light that wrapped around them
• Emotion: a sudden wave of grief, anger or relief with no obvious cause
• Water: dreams of the ocean, drowning, swimming or sea creatures; leaks, rain and water imagery everywhere in daily life
• Sound: a rushing in the ears like surf

What to expect: the descent

Leviathan’s upheaval is different from Lucifer’s. It is rarely your job or your house that is shaken first. It is your inner world. People working with Leviathan for emotional stability describe it getting very bad before it becomes empowering:

• Old memories surfacing
• Crying that seems to come from nowhere
• Anger you did not know you were carrying
• Vivid, heavy dreams
• A season of feeling raw and exposed

Practitioners who have come through it describe a sense of self-worth and steadiness they never had before, like a ship that finally has ballast. Many say the key is to keep moving: Leviathan dislikes stagnation, and the practitioners who journal, talk, meditate by moving water and keep doing their inner work describe the descent as a cleansing rather than a drowning.

Pacts

People do make pacts with Leviathan, most often for emotional regulation, resilience or initiation. The consistent message from those who have is that a pact with Leviathan is not a quick transaction. It requires real self-reflection: what you are asking for, what in you has to change to receive it, and what you will give. A typical modern pact:

• Is written by the practitioner, often on a day of high tide or full moon
• Names a clear exchange and a fixed term
• Is signed, with the sigil drawn beside the signature
• Is read aloud facing West, over a bowl of water
• Is then kept on the altar, given to the sea, or burned

Practitioners say the pacts that go nowhere are usually those made in a hurry, at the start, for something vague. If you would like a pact made with an experienced guide, see our Demonic Pact with Savannah.

The red candle summoning

From our earlier page. You will need a red candle, sandalwood and myrrh incense, black salt, paper or parchment, and frankincense oil or Leviathan’s Oleum.

• Carve the sigil of Leviathan into the red candle
• Anoint it with equal parts black salt and frankincense oil, holding what you want from the invocation in mind
• Light the incense and the candle where no one will disturb you
• Speak aloud: “I call to thee, Leviathan of the Abyss. I summon you here with my will and command. Come forth from the depths that you inhabit and answer my call.”
• Stay still and wait for a response, which may come as visions or words; if nothing comes, meditate and try another night
• Close by thanking Leviathan and leaving incense or another offering near the altar, then snuff the candle and keep it for the next invocation

The black candle summoning

Also from our earlier page, worked with a black candle for darkness and strength, smoky incense such as copal, frankincense, sandalwood or patchouli, an athame or other blade, and an offering of gratitude.

• Cast a circle around yourself with the blade, with chalk on a wooden floor, or with words; some call a demon to each corner to guard the rite or witness it like a council of elders
• Light the incense and the candle, clear your mind and pour your focus into the flame, seeing Leviathan appear in whatever form they choose
• Chant four times: “In the name of the Supreme Being, I call upon thee, O Leviathan! Come forth from your realm and unto mine. Hear my voice, attend me now!”
• Give thanks for Leviathan’s presence, then speak your requests and questions aloud and open yourself to what comes back
• Thank Leviathan again and let the candle and incense burn out on their own

Those new to summoning often cannot yet sense a spirit in the room. The practice on our earlier page was to take it that Leviathan is present and carry on; learning to tell presence from absence can take months or years.

The Draconian current

For some practitioners Leviathan is the doorway to the Draconian path, the strand of the Left Hand Path that works with the serpent and the dragon as images of primordial, self-created power. In this view Leviathan is one face of the chaos dragon that existed before the gods imposed order, linked in some practitioners’ work with Tiamat and Lotan.

Experienced practitioners are clear that this kind of transformative initiation, sometimes called alchemical rebirth, is a long process and not something to rush into in your first month. It usually begins with regular meditation at moving water, dream journaling and the slow building of a relationship before any formal initiation.

Prayers and invocations to Leviathan

Most people who work with Leviathan pray far more often than they perform formal ritual. The prayers below are written by Black Witch Coven for your own use. Speak them as they are, or let them teach you the shape of a prayer and then use your own words.

How people pray to Leviathan

• Facing West: standing or sitting, ideally where you can see or hear water.
• At the water: many practitioners pray at the shore, a river or a waterfall, speaking into the sound of the water.
• Spoken into water: some speak a prayer over a bowl of water and then pour it out, into the sea, a river or the earth.
• Candle colors: blue for emotional calm and intuition, black for protection and the deep work, red for strength and endurance.
• Repetition: a short prayer said nightly for a lunar month, from new moon to new moon, is a common devotion.

Prayer and petition

A prayer keeps the relationship; a petition asks for something. With Leviathan, practitioners find petitions land best when they name not only what they want but what they are prepared to face to get it. A petition for emotional stability, for example, might promise thirty days of journaling about the thing that unsettles you most.

Many write the petition, read it over water, and give it to the sea or to a river.

The enn

Jaden Tasa Hoet Naca Leviathan

Chant it low and slowly, rolling the words like surf. Begin aloud and let your voice sink toward a murmur as the weight of the presence settles. Many chant it nine times before prayer, and some use it alone as a complete devotion at the water’s edge.

Opening invocation for ritual

Leviathan, great serpent of the deep,
Prince of the West, ruler of the waters,
you who were old when the first shore was made,
I call you up from the dark below the waves.
Rise into this place and into this hour.
Fill this room like the tide fills the bay,
and be present in this work.
Jaden Tasa Hoet Naca Leviathan.
Hail Leviathan.

Spoken facing West, after the candles are lit and the water on the altar has been refreshed.

Prayer for emotional strength

Leviathan, you are not troubled by the storm.
The waves break on your back and you do not break.
My feelings rise and crash and pull me under.
Teach me to be the deep water, not the foam.
Let me feel everything and drown in nothing.
Give me your weight when I am scattered,
your stillness when I am thrown about,
and your endurance for the long night.
I will go down into my depths, and I will come back up.

Said at night with a blue candle, often during the descent described above. Many keep it by the bed.

Prayer for the descent into shadow

Leviathan, keeper of what lies beneath,
I have buried things in the dark water of myself
and pretended they were gone.
I am ready to see them now.
Bring up what is drowned, one piece at a time,
and stay coiled around me while I look at it.
What I face, I master.
What I master, I keep as power.

Used before shadow work, journaling or a session of deep meditation. Write down whatever surfaces afterward.

Prayer of protection

Leviathan, coil around this house.
Let your scales be the walls and your body the boundary.
What comes against us breaks like water on stone,
and what is sent in envy returns to the one who sent it.
Guard what is mine in the depths and on the shore.
Hail Leviathan, serpent of the deep.

Said while sprinkling salt water at the doors and windows, or while pouring a circle of sea salt around the altar.

Offering prayer at the water

Leviathan, I bring this to the water for you.
I give it freely, owing nothing and asking nothing,
as the river gives itself to the sea.
Take it down into your depths.
I thank you for your weight, your stillness and your strength.
Hail Leviathan.

Said as rum, salt or a written prayer is given to the sea or a river. Name the offering aloud first.

Closing and release

Leviathan, Prince of the West, I thank you for rising to this work.
What was spoken here is sealed.
Return to the deep as the tide returns,
and come again when I call.
This rite is ended.

Spoken at the end of every ritual. Many pour the altar water away straight afterward, into the earth or down a running drain, so nothing is left to stagnate.

Questions people actually ask

These are the questions that come up again and again in demonolatry, Satanic and Left Hand Path communities, answered the way we would answer them.

Is Leviathan even a demon?

This is the question asked most, and practitioners genuinely disagree. Some place Leviathan among the high demons of demonolatry, noting that “demon” comes from the Greek daimon, simply “spirit.” Others say Leviathan is a dragon or a primordial being who takes the role of a demon prince for reasons of their own. The biblical texts describe a sea monster, not a spirit at all.

In practice, most people find that what Leviathan is matters less than how Leviathan shows up in their work.

Is Leviathan male or female?

Both, neither, and it depends on who you ask. 1 Enoch describes Leviathan as female, and many practitioners today call Leviathan “she.” Others experience a masculine presence, and plenty use “they” or simply the name. Most practitioners take the view that a spirit this old is not bound by human gender, and that the form Leviathan shows you may say something about what you need.

Is Leviathan safe for a beginner?

Leviathan does work with newcomers, and some people’s very first contact is with this spirit. But the weight and emotional depth of the contact catches many people off guard. Most experienced practitioners suggest building some practice first, such as meditation, grounding and a few months with a gentler spirit, so you know how your own mind behaves when a large presence arrives.

Can Leviathan help with depression or anxiety?

People do come to Leviathan for emotional stability, and some report a lasting sense of steadiness and self-worth. They are also honest that the process is not soothing at first: one described it getting very bad before it became empowering. Practitioners who are already taking medication or in therapy describe Leviathan’s work as running alongside that care, as a spiritual companion to the work they are already doing, and they tend to go slowly.

Why does Leviathan feel so heavy?

Almost everyone mentions the weight. Some find it crushing at first; many come to experience it as a stabilizing anchor that holds them in place when everything else is moving. Practitioners who meditate with Leviathan near moving water, a river or a waterfall, say the weight feels lighter and clearer there, which fits the common report that Leviathan dislikes stagnant energy.

Is Leviathan the demon of envy? Will working with them make me jealous?

Binsfeld made Leviathan the demon of envy in 1589, and the label stuck. Practitioners today mostly read it the other way around: Leviathan shows you your envy so you can use it. Jealousy is a map of what you secretly want, and working with Leviathan tends to bring that map into the light. Some people do report a season of feeling their envy more sharply before it turns into motivation.

Can I work with Leviathan alongside Lucifer, Belial and Satan?

Yes. In demonolatry Leviathan is one of the four elemental princes, with Lucifer in the East, Flereous or Satan in the South and Belial in the North, and many practitioners call all four to the quarters before any ritual. Abramelin groups Leviathan with Lucifer, Satan and Belial as the four superior princes.

Leviathan is also commonly worked alongside Astaroth, Lilith and the Goetic spirits of water such as Vepar and Focalor.

I think a spirit claiming to be Leviathan is talking to me. How do I know?

Practitioners suggest confirming through divination over several sessions, asking the same question in different ways, and watching for the signs above, especially the weight and the water. When a presence is flattering, hurried or asks for something sudden, most take more time. One practitioner noted a case where a spirit claiming a family link to Leviathan was, on closer work, something else entirely.

Do I need to live near the sea?

No. A bowl of fresh water refreshed every time you work, a bath with sea salt, rain, or a local river all serve. Many practitioners who live inland keep a jar of seawater from a trip and add a few drops to their altar water.

What does it mean if I dream of drowning after a ritual?

Drowning and deep-water dreams are among the most common reports after first contact. Most practitioners read them as the descent itself, being taken down into your own depths, rather than as anything ominous. Many write them down and find the details mattered later.

What works, what doesn’t

These patterns come from first-hand accounts on Reddit, practitioner blogs and our own coven. None of it is a rule, and accounts sometimes contradict each other.

What practitioners report works

• Working near moving water. Rivers, waterfalls, the sea, or at least fresh water changed every time.
• Asking for strength, not rescue. “Help me hold steady through this” lands better than “make this go away.”
• Doing the inner work alongside the magick. Journaling, honest self-examination and facing old wounds.
• Patience with the tides. Giving it a full lunar cycle or more before judging.
• Getting to know Leviathan first. Asking about the spirit before asking for anything.
• Calling the four princes together. Many find Leviathan’s presence more balanced inside a full elemental circle.

What practitioners report working less well

• Command. Approaching Leviathan as a servant is the pattern most often linked with unclear or painful contact.
• Quick favors. Leviathan is described as poorly suited to small requests and quick pacts.
• Stagnation. Stale water on the altar, and stalling halfway through the emotional work.
• Rushing initiation. Draconian rebirth work attempted in the first weeks.
• Expecting gentleness. People who want only calm are often surprised by what comes up first.

What people report from their first months

• Calling Leviathan as a first spirit without any grounding practice
• Asking for something vague such as “fix my emotions”
• Leaving water on the altar for days
• Stopping the work in the middle of the descent, when it is hardest
• Confusing the internet’s sea-monster lore with the spirit people actually meet

What changed when they kept going

People who have worked with Leviathan for a long time describe the weight changing meaning. At first it is pressure; later it is ballast. They describe a calm that does not depend on circumstances, a lowered fear of their own emotions, and an ability to stay unmoved when other people are panicking. Several describe Leviathan as a presence that was there long before they named it, and that will be there long after.

The darker work: envy, curses and binding pacts

Leviathan’s waters are not only for healing. Practitioners also bring this spirit their most baneful work, and we would rather explain it than pretend it does not happen.

Envy returned

Because of Binsfeld’s label, Leviathan is a natural spirit for work with envy in both directions.

Defensively, practitioners call on Leviathan to turn back the jealousy and evil eye of others, often with salt water at the threshold and a mirror facing outward.

Offensively, some ask Leviathan to drown a rival’s advantage or to let the envy someone carries sink them under its own weight. Practitioners who do this work usually frame it as returning what was sent, with the outcome left to the spirit.

Binding pacts

Beyond the pacts described above, some practitioners make deeper binding agreements with Leviathan, usually as part of a Draconian initiation or a lifelong dedication to the deep path. These are sealed with something of the practitioner’s own so the bond feels physical and real. Common seals:

• A signature, with the sigil drawn beside it
• A personal token given to the sea with the pact, such as a lock of hair or a ring
• A single drop of your own blood on the signature. Blood is life force, and nearly every religion on earth speaks of blood as life itself, so a drop gives the pact something of you that nothing else can
• An oath spoken aloud three times over the water
• The pact given to an outgoing tide

What the old grimoires say

The modern practice above is the living part of Leviathan’s work. The old books and older texts are its background, and knowing them helps you see where today’s ideas came from.

Lotan of Ugarit

Long before the Bible, the Canaanite texts of Ugarit described Lotan, a twisting sea serpent who served Yam, the god of the sea, and was defeated by Baal Hadad, the storm god. Most scholars see Lotan as the source of Leviathan, which makes Leviathan and Baal two parts of one very old story: the storm against the sea.

The Hebrew Bible

Leviathan appears in several books, always as a creature no human can tame:

• Job 41: a full chapter on the beast that no hook can catch, with fire from its mouth and smoke from its nostrils
• Psalm 74:14: God breaks the heads of Leviathan
• Isaiah 27:1: “leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent,” to be slain at the end of days (King James Version)

1 Enoch and the Talmud

1 Enoch 60 describes Leviathan as a female monster dwelling in the abyss of the sea, over the fountains of the waters, and Behemoth as a male monster of the desert. Talmudic lore adds that Leviathan will be slain at the end of time and served as a feast to the righteous, with its skin used for the tent of the feast. With Behemoth of the land and Ziz of the air, Leviathan is one of the three primordial beasts of Jewish lore, and Islamic cosmology tells of Bahamut, the vast fish on which the world rests.

The demonologists

• Peter Binsfeld (1589): named Leviathan the demon of envy, one of seven princes matched to the deadly sins
• The Loudun possessions (1630s): Leviathan was one of the demons named in the famous possession of the Ursuline nuns
• Abramelin: in Mathers’ 1898 translation, one of the four superior princes of evil spirits, with Lucifer, Satan and Belial

Modern Satanism

Anton LaVey’s Satanic Bible (1969), drawing on the Abramelin hierarchy, named Leviathan one of the four Crown Princes of Hell and gave Leviathan Water and the West, the attribution most demonolaters still use. The Hebrew letters around the Church of Satan’s Sigil of Baphomet spell Leviathan’s name.

Modern demonolatry places Leviathan in the West of the elemental circle; see our page on the Dukante Hierarchy.

The stories we don’t believe

Much of what circulates online about Leviathan, such as an angelic past under the name Flumenel, a jealous love for the archangel Uriel, or powers to cross universes through portals, comes from modern fiction and fan wikis, not from any grimoire or old text. We at Black Witch Coven don’t believe such story tales, and know that this powerful spirit has a purpose just like any other living entity on this planet.

Solomonic command and demonolatry

In the Hebrew Bible and Christian tradition Leviathan is the monster God will slay at the end of days, and in the Solomonic tradition spirits are commanded from inside a protective circle by the names of God, a method ceremonial magicians still work. Demonolatry approaches Leviathan from the other side:

• Stance: a vast and ancient ally honoured, where the Solomonic rite commands
• Authority: the practitioner’s own
• Exchange: offerings, devotion and inner work, where the Solomonic rite constrains by divine names
• Aim: a long relationship that changes the practitioner

Practitioners who work with Leviathan in particular say this spirit answers poorly to command: in their phrase, you cannot order the sea.

Black Witch Coven’s view

We don’t believe the story tales about Leviathan, and we know that this powerful spirit has a purpose just like any other living entity on this planet. In our experience that purpose is depth. Leviathan is not the spirit for a quick favor or a small request. Leviathan is the one you go to when you are ready to stop skimming the surface of your own life, to go down into what you have buried, and to come back up heavier, steadier and harder to move. As the Grand Admiral of Hell, Leviathan commands the waters, and water always finds its way: around, under and eventually through whatever stands against it.

Work with Leviathan through Black Witch Coven

• Leviathan’s Oleum: for anointing candles and your own altar work
• Demonic Pact with Savannah: for a pact
• Monthly Demonic Praise Subscription: ongoing devotion on your behalf
• Daemonic Offerings: The Daemonolater’s Guide: for building your offering practice

As with all magick, results are never guaranteed.

Related spirits

• Lucifer, Satan and Belial: with Leviathan, the four superior princes of Abramelin and the elemental princes of demonolatry
• Baal: the storm god who defeated Lotan, Leviathan’s oldest form, and the Goetic king Bael
• Azazel: the Watcher of the desert; 1 Enoch describes both him and Leviathan
• Lilith: often worked alongside Leviathan in the deep, emotional and Draconian current
• Astaroth: a frequent companion spirit for practitioners devoted to Leviathan
• Vepar and Focalor: the Goetic spirits of the sea

Sources

Isaiah 27:1, King James Version (1611)	“leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent”
Job 41 and Psalm 74:14, King James Version	Leviathan as the untameable beast of the sea
1 Enoch 60:7–9 (trans. R. H. Charles, 1917)	Leviathan the female monster of the sea; Behemoth the male of the desert
Babylonian Talmud, Bava Batra 75a	Leviathan served at the feast of the righteous
Ugaritic Baal Cycle	Lotan, the twisting serpent, defeated by Baal Hadad
Peter Binsfeld, Tractatus de confessionibus maleficorum et sagarum (1589)	Leviathan as the demon of envy
The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, trans. S. L. MacGregor Mathers (1898)	Leviathan among the four superior princes
Anton LaVey, The Satanic Bible (1969)	Leviathan as Crown Prince of Water and the West

Further reading: S. Connolly, The Complete Book of Demonolatry; Asenath Mason, Draconian Ritual Book; Michael W. Ford, Luciferian Witchcraft.

• r/DemonolatryPractices: “Is Leviathan a demon?”
• r/DemonolatryPractices: Leviathan for inner work and emotional regulation
• r/DemonolatryPractices: working with Leviathan for emotional stability
• Leviathan, Wikipedia