Legion 49

by Barry William Hale

Birthed from strange and ancient larvae, the demon Beelzebub is often heard but seldom seen. His presence throughout history is fleeting, sudden, ever evasive. Even in the light of modern studies, references to the ‘God of Ekron’ are scant and largely academic.

Barry William Hale has nurtured an early fascination with the order Diptera to develop a buzzing, post-modern grimoire-bestiarum. Drawn from many years practical experience working with Beelzebub and his servitors, Legion 49 provides us with a rare glimpse of ‘the Lord of the Flies’ and the dark quintessence of his Legion. In a series of short, de-constructionist essays the artist explores traditional methods of evocation and the myths surrounding Beelzebub, before providing an iconographical and sigillic recension of his horde of forty-nine servitors, glimpsed through the protective-symmetry of the paper-cut traditions of old Mexico.

Legion 49 is a fusion of styles, influences and approaches, the modern and ancient, direct and indirect, refined and raw: it seeks to capture for a moment that flitting, fleeting, Chaotic gnosis symbolised by the Lord of Flies.

Standard edition
Limited to 777 numbered copies
Illustrations, gilt-stamped cloth and dust-jacket

160pages, 230mm x 175mm
£25.00

Deluxe edition
Limited to 49 numbered copies, signed and sigillized by the artist
Illustrations, dust-jacket, bound in quarter black goatskin, top edge gilt, slipcase, with an original signa magica by the artist loosely inserted and a very limited issue soundtrack CD of the NOKO invocation performance.

For obvious talismanic reasons, this is our smallest deluxe limitation for 13 years – carpe diem!

160pages, 200mm x 175mm
£147.00 SOLD OUT

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