Eurynomos (daemon)

In popular culture

• In the last book of The Cronus Chronicles, The Immortal Flame, Eurynomus is mentioned. He was stated as wearing vulture feathers as a cloak, with blue-black skin the colour of flies. He also had the ability to turn invisible and intangible, the perfect spy. He was "hired" by the antagonist Philonecron to spy on the protagonist, and Philonecron stated that he had hygiene issues.
• In the 1976 horror anthology film Dead of Night, the main character in the third vignette entitled "Bobby" uses a rite from the Lesser Key of Solomon calling on Eurynomos as "Prince of Death" to bring her son back to life.
• In the Japanese animated series Yondemasuyo, Azazel-san, Eurynomos appears as a blue-black pig demon who spreads despair by inflicting his victims with severe hemorrhoids.
• This character is found in Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum with the spelling 'Eurynomius' as an example of a "principal of evil."
• The Swiss extreme metal band Hellhammer included a track named Eurynomos in their 1983 Demo tape Satanic Rites.
• Euronymous was used as the stage name for the Norwegian black metal musician Øystein Aarseth from the band Mayhem.
• Eurynomos appears in the fourth book of The Trials of Apollo, The Tyrant's Tomb, by Rick Riordan as a species of ghouls who eat the flesh off of corpses, raising up the picked-clean bodies as elite skeleton warriors. Their claws also carry a disease that, should a scratch victim die from it, will rise up as a zombie, also dubbed a vrykolakas.