Meririm

Meririm (also Merihem) is a southern, aerial demon listed as the prince of the sixth degree of demons both in Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy and Barrett's The Magus.

Description

Agrippa describes Meririm as being "a boiling demon," and a "raging demon in the south."

According to Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Meririm rules over the demons who are Aerial Powers. The mineral which corresponds to him is chrysolite, and it is astrologically aligned to the Sun.

In his book The Magus, Francis Barrett calls Meririm a demon of pestilence.

In the Bible

The demon is believed to be the "prince of the power of the air" mentioned by the Apostle Paul in the New Testament's Ephesians 2:2, although the specific name "Meririm" is not used in the original text.

"Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience."

Meririm may also be one of the "Meridian Demons" spoken of in Psalm 91:6 as "the pestilence that walks in darkness [and] the destruction that wastes at noonday." This would support its later occult correspondence to the Sun as well as the belief that diseases were a product of "bad air."

In popular culture

Meririm is the name of a fictional demon in the Marvel Comics book Marvel Zombies: The Book of Angels, Demons & Various Monstrosities #1 (2007). He is described as a fallen angel.