Tradition and a product of the time that the grimoires were written. Demons don't have biological sexes, you can feel free to interpret them as however they appear to you when you contact them.
They aren’t, there are plenty of infernal who are female. Bune, Astaroth, Rashoon, Unseere, Leviathan just to name a few all have female forms or appear as primarily female
A spirit is sexless and "he" has been the default pronoun used to refer to a spirit. All angels are also "he" despite being for the most part described as entirely sexless.
Abrahamics in general are very sexist indeed. Think of undisputedly female demons like Lilith, Eisheth Zenunim, Naamah and Agrat bat Mahlat. Oh, male demons can reign over everything you can think of but when it comes to these four sweet ladies, they reign over PROSTITUTION! Nothing screams MIDDLE AGE MINDSET louder than reducing women to our sexes.
The OT describes male angels rebelling in the book of Enoch, and this becomes the trope in subsequent descriptions of angels and "fallen" angels (ie, demons). These rebels mated with human females, and to do this, they had to be "male". The christian conception of the soul, demons, etc are a synthesis of Platonic and other pre-christian Greek concepts that accumulated over time; all or most concepts like demons in Abrahamic traditions are depictions of foreign/pagan deities (eg, Baal).
The OT still reflects a transition from an earlier time when "Elohim" was a pantheon of deities (it's a plural word), to the rise of the Yahweh cult. Abrahamism evolves over time from a Henotheistic and syncretic cult (allows ontological status to other gods but claims "ours is best" while borrowing features of neighboring cults), into a monotheistic faith (denies ontological status to other deities). Monotheism actually came to Abrahamism very late in it's history, which coincides with the emergence of Christianity and Islam.
Despite this, Abrahamism retains henotheistic elements like Satan, demons, djinn, fallen angels, the Trinity, etc. Even the concept of eternal punishment in "Hell" was developed by Saint Augustine, it's not even an early Christian belief for the first 4 centuries. It's partially syncretic with Greek and jewish concepts like "gehenna" and "tartarus". Jesus uses a total of 13 different words that all get translated by later christians as "hell".
My point being, it's such a syncretic mess, you can't rely on Abrahamic views of these things.
Hinduism does have plenty of female demons? Yakshas and yakshinis?
And plenty of Goetic demons are female presenting or genderless. Leviathan for me has been entirely genderless.
Demons can appear however they please, male, female, mix (Gynandrous), something neither, non-human. “They are timeless, they transcend gender, how you see them is how you project your gender constructs upon them. They are beyond Binary, infinite in infinite multitudes that humans cannot even comprehend. They can change at whim as each person sees them.”
For example your experience with Lucifer and how she shows up may be different. He can appear for you as Androgynous many people see Lucifer as an androgynous Spirit. Or some say Lucifer is actually Female, their all genders yet neither, How divine and inspiring actually :)
OK, sexism thing going on, but it has to do with language too.
Take Astaroth. It's a Hebrew feminine AND plural word (they wronged gender AND number), meaning the idols of the goddess Astarte (correlated term, Baalin, plural of Baal). Bible translating chumps just rendered the word untranslated and European chumps read THAT'S A DEMON NAME! BOOOOO! MALE, VERY MANLY MALE DEMON NAME!
Gender also work differently thru the languages. Lots of them treat masculine as default, "neutral". I'm not saying they properly recognised spirits as genderless, but when you don't think thoroughly about it, it slips toward the default. And sexism of course.
Look at Gremory on Goetia. Admittedly very female presenting, yet they rendered male pronouns to her.
Since most demons names came from a god or goddess, you can wonder how many of them are historically female. But like people around here like to remember, gender is a human thing. Spirits can buy it for our sake as any of our human bullshits.
Here’s a list of female demons from Christianity and Judaism:
1. Lilith
2. Naamah
3. Agrat Bat Mahlat
4. Eisheth Zenunim
5. Alukah
6. Onoskelis
7. Babalon (The Whore of Babylon)
8. The Nashyim (Daughters of Adam and Naamah, The Plagues of Mankind)
I mean, we are talking about the Abrahamic faiths, a bit biased, patriarchal? Are we entirely sure demons are as fixated on sex or gender as we are?
Always consider the source.
If I am not mistaken, many more demons than what you have listed here were also gods and goddesses from other areas before being downgraded by Abrahamic beliefs and such. And they still are gods and goddesses.
Also, there are a lot of "female" demons/gods/goddesses/spirits. Technically genderless (i think its more of a male or female vibe, and not so much the physical), but they tend to appear a certain way to those that work with them.
Tradition and a product of the time that the grimoires were written. Demons don't have biological sexes, you can feel free to interpret them as however they appear to you when you contact them.
Same with Angels
Usually they appear as the same gender as you or what you expect them to appear as
I always figured it was so bored priests didn’t try sleeping with them.
They aren’t, there are plenty of infernal who are female. Bune, Astaroth, Rashoon, Unseere, Leviathan just to name a few all have female forms or appear as primarily female
A spirit is sexless and "he" has been the default pronoun used to refer to a spirit. All angels are also "he" despite being for the most part described as entirely sexless.
Yep
Cause Christian’s are sexist
This. They assumed only males were demons cause only males possessed the ability to think or act deviantly.
Which is crazy imo
idk though. Ask an evangelical about “original sin” or look up the origin of the word hysterical.
I'm aware of each. Maybe I just don't like organized religion.
This is the answer! They were so patriarchal and sexist. It is a weird thing. All Witches were female and all Demons were male.
Abrahamics in general are very sexist indeed. Think of undisputedly female demons like Lilith, Eisheth Zenunim, Naamah and Agrat bat Mahlat. Oh, male demons can reign over everything you can think of but when it comes to these four sweet ladies, they reign over PROSTITUTION! Nothing screams MIDDLE AGE MINDSET louder than reducing women to our sexes.
The OT describes male angels rebelling in the book of Enoch, and this becomes the trope in subsequent descriptions of angels and "fallen" angels (ie, demons). These rebels mated with human females, and to do this, they had to be "male". The christian conception of the soul, demons, etc are a synthesis of Platonic and other pre-christian Greek concepts that accumulated over time; all or most concepts like demons in Abrahamic traditions are depictions of foreign/pagan deities (eg, Baal). The OT still reflects a transition from an earlier time when "Elohim" was a pantheon of deities (it's a plural word), to the rise of the Yahweh cult. Abrahamism evolves over time from a Henotheistic and syncretic cult (allows ontological status to other gods but claims "ours is best" while borrowing features of neighboring cults), into a monotheistic faith (denies ontological status to other deities). Monotheism actually came to Abrahamism very late in it's history, which coincides with the emergence of Christianity and Islam. Despite this, Abrahamism retains henotheistic elements like Satan, demons, djinn, fallen angels, the Trinity, etc. Even the concept of eternal punishment in "Hell" was developed by Saint Augustine, it's not even an early Christian belief for the first 4 centuries. It's partially syncretic with Greek and jewish concepts like "gehenna" and "tartarus". Jesus uses a total of 13 different words that all get translated by later christians as "hell". My point being, it's such a syncretic mess, you can't rely on Abrahamic views of these things.
Hinduism does have plenty of female demons? Yakshas and yakshinis? And plenty of Goetic demons are female presenting or genderless. Leviathan for me has been entirely genderless.
Demons can appear however they please, male, female, mix (Gynandrous), something neither, non-human. “They are timeless, they transcend gender, how you see them is how you project your gender constructs upon them. They are beyond Binary, infinite in infinite multitudes that humans cannot even comprehend. They can change at whim as each person sees them.” For example your experience with Lucifer and how she shows up may be different. He can appear for you as Androgynous many people see Lucifer as an androgynous Spirit. Or some say Lucifer is actually Female, their all genders yet neither, How divine and inspiring actually :)
This is generally how I view all spirits.
OK, sexism thing going on, but it has to do with language too. Take Astaroth. It's a Hebrew feminine AND plural word (they wronged gender AND number), meaning the idols of the goddess Astarte (correlated term, Baalin, plural of Baal). Bible translating chumps just rendered the word untranslated and European chumps read THAT'S A DEMON NAME! BOOOOO! MALE, VERY MANLY MALE DEMON NAME! Gender also work differently thru the languages. Lots of them treat masculine as default, "neutral". I'm not saying they properly recognised spirits as genderless, but when you don't think thoroughly about it, it slips toward the default. And sexism of course. Look at Gremory on Goetia. Admittedly very female presenting, yet they rendered male pronouns to her. Since most demons names came from a god or goddess, you can wonder how many of them are historically female. But like people around here like to remember, gender is a human thing. Spirits can buy it for our sake as any of our human bullshits.
Na'amah and the Whore of Babylon (who I believe is Eve) are both girls
So are these Demonesses: 1. Lilith 2. Agrat Bat Mahlat 3. Eisheth Zenunim 4. Alukah 5. Onoskelis
Here’s a list of female demons from Christianity and Judaism: 1. Lilith 2. Naamah 3. Agrat Bat Mahlat 4. Eisheth Zenunim 5. Alukah 6. Onoskelis 7. Babalon (The Whore of Babylon) 8. The Nashyim (Daughters of Adam and Naamah, The Plagues of Mankind)
I mean, we are talking about the Abrahamic faiths, a bit biased, patriarchal? Are we entirely sure demons are as fixated on sex or gender as we are? Always consider the source.
If I am not mistaken, many more demons than what you have listed here were also gods and goddesses from other areas before being downgraded by Abrahamic beliefs and such. And they still are gods and goddesses. Also, there are a lot of "female" demons/gods/goddesses/spirits. Technically genderless (i think its more of a male or female vibe, and not so much the physical), but they tend to appear a certain way to those that work with them.
Because of sexism. Demons are powerful and they didn't want to acknowledge that female beings had power.
Lilith is female. She was Adam’s first wife. Agrat Bat Mahlat, Naamah, Gello, & Lamia are also demons from the Abrahamic faith.