The seventh spirit of the Ars Goetia — a Marquis of striking dual appearance. Amon first appears as a wolf with a serpent's tail breathing fire, then transforms into a man with a raven's head with dog's teeth. He tells past and future, procures love and reconciles feuds between friends and enemies. His name echoes one of the greatest gods of ancient Egypt.
Amon's appearance is one of the most elaborately layered in the early Goetia — two distinct forms, each composed of multiple symbolic elements. His first appearance as a fire-breathing wolf with a serpent's tail presents a being of predatory power (wolf), transformation and ancient wisdom (serpent), and purifying or destructive force (fire). His second form — a man with a raven's head and dog's teeth — shifts to a different register entirely: the raven's prophetic vision, the human capacity for speech and reason, and the dog's teeth suggesting something simultaneously domestic and dangerous.
The wolf is the predatory animal of the night — the hunter that operates in packs, that maintains social bonds within its group while being lethal to those outside it. This connects to Amon's power to reconcile feuds: the wolf knows group loyalty intimately. The raven is the prophetic bird of Northern European tradition — Odin's ravens Huginn and Muninn (Thought and Memory) flew across the world bringing him knowledge of past and future. A spirit with a raven's head is a spirit of prophetic knowledge, of memory and of the news that arrives from distant places.
The Seventh Spirit is Amon. He is a Marquis great in power, and most stern. He appeareth like a Wolf with a Serpent's tail, vomiting out of his mouth flames of fire; but at the command of the Magician he putteth on the shape of a Man with Dog's teeth beset in a Head like a Raven.
— Ars Goetia, Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis, 17th centuryAmon's three powers — temporal knowledge, love-procurement and feud-reconciliation — form a coherent whole. All three concern the movement of relationships across time: past and future tell you where relationships have been and are going; love-procurement creates new relational bonds; feud-reconciliation heals broken ones. Amon is a spirit of relational architecture — the structure of connection between people across time.
The name Amon almost certainly derives from — or is at least deeply connected to — the Egyptian god Amun (also spelled Amon, Ammon), one of the most significant deities in all of Egyptian religion. Amun was the hidden god, the invisible wind, the king of the gods during the New Kingdom period (roughly 1550–1070 BCE), when his cult at Thebes achieved supreme national prominence. He was merged with Ra to become Amun-Ra — the supreme solar deity of Egyptian civilization at its height.
The transformation from Amun — supreme god of Egypt, hidden universal principle, the oracle consulted by Alexander — to Amon, the seventh spirit of the Goetia, follows the same pattern as other Egyptian deities entering the Western demonological tradition: the gods of the conquered tradition become the spirits of the conquering one. Amun's oracle becomes Amon's prophecy. His hidden nature becomes the first wolf-form that must be transformed before he will communicate.
The ram connection: Amun's most recognisable attribute was the ram's horn crown — the curved horns that symbolised his creative power and royal authority. The Goetia's Amon seal (as traditionally depicted) features curved horn-like extensions that echo this Egyptian iconography. Whether intentional or accumulated through transmission, the visual link between Amun's ram-horns and Amon's seal persists across the two thousand years between the height of Egyptian civilisation and the compilation of the Lemegeton.
Amon is invoked for three distinct practical purposes. For divination — particularly concerning relationships and the trajectory of personal situations over time — his raven-headed prophetic form is the relevant mode. For love and attraction — drawing people together or restoring estranged connections — his Venus-aligned power is engaged. For reconciliation — ending feuds, restoring broken friendships, bringing hostile parties to negotiation — his wolf-pack wisdom is the operative principle.
His connection to the Egyptian oracle tradition makes him relevant for any work where prophetic clarity about relational dynamics is sought. Amon, the hidden one who reveals, is a spirit whose knowledge extends across both the seen and unseen dimensions of human relationship — appropriate for a deity whose Egyptian name meant precisely "the hidden."