Behemoth master and margarita10/2/2023 ![]() ![]() In some parts of China, black cats are known as bearers of the famine. In the old popular beliefs of large parts of North America and Europe, black cats bring bad luck, and are often associated with witches. In The Master and Margarita, Behemoth is a black cat. It could explain why he's so interested in the food at the currency store Torgsin in chapter 28. In circles of devil experts, Behemoth is also seen as the devil of the desires of the stomach. The dinosaurs have thus never lived together with man. But the dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, while the first traces of the homo sapiens are only 100,000 years old. Sometimes it is suggested, among others by the Dutch biologist and theologian Willem Ouweneel (☁944), that the brontosaurus, which indeed had a firm tail, could have been the inspiration for the biblical behemoth. There is also a behemoth in other Jewish writings, and always reference is made to something big and colossal. That's why English translators sometimes just left the word behemoth as it was. Some chose for an elephant, others for an hippopotamus, but they all knew that neither of these could be accurate. Until recently, bible translators didn't know which way to go with this word because they didn't know any beast with «a tail like a cedar and an enormous power in his abdominal muscles and loins». In the biblical Book Job 40: 10-19 you find a description of a huge monster, referred to in Hebrew as בהמות. Anna Richardovna, the secretary of Prosha Prochor Petrovich, described Behemoth as «a tomcat, black, a colossus as an hippopotamus». Бегемот is in Russian a synonym for гиппопотам or hippopotamus. You can download the full text of History of the relation of Man with the Devil by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Orlov in Russian by clicking the arrow hereunder. He forced the abbess to curse continually, and could only be expelled after a visit to the grave of Saint Francis of Sales (1567-1622) in Annecy. Especially the devil Behemoth was very persistent. He used instrospection as a method to fight the possession, but that was not easy. The Jesuit Jean-Joseph Surin (1600-1665) was assigned as the spiritual leader, confessor and exorcist of mother Jeanne des Anges. After the death of Grandier, however, the signs of possession did not stop. He was convicted and died at the stake on August 18, 1634. ![]() The priest Urbain Grandier (1590-1634), who had a rather casual attitude to celibacy, and who had also regularly criticized Cardinal de Richelieu, was accused of having made a pact with the devil and having seduced the nuns. He stayed in the womb of the abbess and was described as a monster with an elephant's head, a trunk and fangs. The mother superior of the monastery, Marie Jeanne de Belcier (1602-1665), also known as Marie Jeanne des Anges, said they were possessed by no less than seventeen demons, including the devil Behemoth. In a monastery of Ursulines the nuns said that they had been visited and possessed by demons. In this work is described the course of a witchcraft trial that has been held in Loudon in France in 1634 at the behest of Armand Jean du Plessis (1585-1642), better known as Cardinal de Richelieu. In the archives of Mikhail Bulgakov have been founde xcerpts of the book The History of the relation of Man with the Devil by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Orlov from 1904. And when he gets accidentally hit by a bullit, he just needs a sip of gasoline to regain his strength. He executes the most violent punishments, cuts off heads and is unbeatable with a browning in his hands. Behemoth is the giant cat, extremely evil and fond of firearms, who finds demonic pleasure in challenging people and putting everything in a blaze with a primus stove.
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