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>ANDREALPHUS
>Andrealphus is a Marquis who comes in the form of a peacock and raises great noises on his appearance. When in human shape, he teaches geometry and all things relating to admeasurements perfectly. He also makes one a subtle disputer and cunning in astronomy and can transform a person into the likeness of a bird
>With his appearance as a peacock-which the Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy informs us is a shape that Jupiterian spirits take-Andrealphus manifests in a form that mirrors the Sepharvite sun god Adrammelech. This deity is depicted as a peacock in the Talmud and bears a name that is most likely derived from the Hebrew roots אדר (adar), "magnificent", and מלאך (malek), "king". With this similarity comes one of several points of obfuscation with the identity of this spirit and that of Andromalius, whose name also reveals a likely relationship to the name Adrammelech. Although this appears too simplistic a statement to be presented as proof of their shared identity, such simplicity goes away when Andrealphus's relationship to the spirit Halphas is considered. The etymological origin of the name Halphas and the -alphus element of Andrealphus's name resides in the Greek Αλφειός (alpheios), meaning "whitish", which, in the case of Andrealphus, gives his full name the approximate meaning "a man of whitish appearance". While this provides a linguistic connection between Halphas and Andrealphus, a more interesting fact to consider is that Halphas's aliases Malthus and Malthous bear a distinct similarity to Malcus, the alias of Andromalius
