Cimejes; The Spirit Of Africa
By James Donahue
There
seems to be a true spirit watching over the Continent of Africa. He is Cimejes, a tall, black entity that looks like, and
distinctly associates himself with the black skinned people of that part of the world.
He also is known as Kimaris. He is the sixty-sixth demon in the list of Spirits of the Goetia.
The Sixteenth Century magician Johann Wier wrote that Cimeries (yet another spelling) “is
a great marquesse and strong, ruling in the parts of Africa.” S. L. MacGregor Mathers also wrote: “He ruleth over
all spirits in the parts of Africa.”
Cimejes appears
as a thin dark warrior riding a black horse. He holds the rank of marquis and leads 20 legions of demons. He is said to have
the power of finding lost and hidden treasure, teach grammar, logic and rhetoric, and can turn men into warriors that look
like him.
Wade Baskin’s Dictionary of Satanism, suggests that
the name Cimeries is taken from the name Cimmerian, a tribe of warlike people mentioned by several classical authors. The
Cimmerians were known as a people who lived in total darkness.
