I don’t think this can be backed up. A small number can be traced to gods but not necessarily planetary ones - Innana/Ishtar as Ashtoreth being the obvious one, and it’s thought that Baal is probably Ba’al (Lord) Hadid or something, who was a city god - the Mesopotamians had a thing where they made their cities into personified deities, so it stands to reason an enemy culture would demonize those.
The original work, the Lesser keys of Solomon, call hem Djinn if I recall, which is a very specific type of Earthbound incarnation, and not a god at all. I suspect they all have many sources from multiple cultures and what they had in common was the Semitic peoples that contributed the most to the Keys of Solomon didn’t like the various people’s they came from. Yahweh, another dessert war god, could easily have been one of them if the shoe had been on the other foot.
So, eh, and it’s kind of messy rather than a smooth progression, the landscape was so very different than today and ideas we think are normal were not even invented back then, like, monotheism, say (which is just weird when you think about it and if there’s only one god you HAVE to denigrate ALL the others, right?).
There’s a wonderful wealth of scholarship out there that does go into this kind of detail so we don’t have to guess . The youtube channel ESOTERICA is awesome for this, and focuses on this period so I think you might find that very interesting.
This one’s a nice start as it goes into more than just the yahweh character, and gets you an idea of the enormity of cultural difference at the time compared to now. And Abrahamic mythology is not Summerian is not Egyptian etc etc. But today we havea garbles mess of all of it in the occult.
This one’s cool:
I would agree understanding as much as possible about the ancient origins is awesome, it’s interesting, and it goes a long way to dispelling the dogma instilled in us by modern wishful thinking.
We all die without the sun, and the sun causes cyclical mass extinctions, it makes sense ancient people and modern mages alike worship and fear it, for identifiable, very solid reasons. But we are beings of the cosmos and much more than just solar, and too much of a good thing will kill you. Just something to bear in mind.
The sun is a tool, no more no less. Use the right tool for the right job and you’re golden.
So I would think, Enochian being an intelligent system that knows how to use the magickal tools wisely, would therefore yield good results. But if you try to simplify it too much into “it’s because of x” you’ll miss out on that intelligence behind it and end up with nothing better than anything else generic and oversimplified.
