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"Doesn't matter how many punks with ambition you bring along. That only increases the risks. It's far better to have a small number of experienced elites."
— Heis to Katarina Couteau
The Gamchicoth or Ga'ashekelah is a group of organized Black Demons that is made up of powerful entities of The Revelation of Qliphoth and Leohart's Cult founded by Vira Hermes and lead by Mina Harker with the solo purpose of getting rid of Ratatoskr and its alpha group the Rogues. Although the organization is lead by Mina Harker, Heis is the person in charge of their operations in combat while Mina serves more like the person who gives orders around rather than involving herself with the group. Despite being major antagonists, they entered to CIS Productions most dangerous groups for being the only organization that successfully wiped out the Rogues and all heroic main forces in all stories.
The Vanguard Action Squad has been noted to be comprised of elite Black Demons as opposed to the weaker demons used to invade Brazil and the Black Demons of Heis' Black Army. Valaine alone was able to keep Shigure Yukimi and Lucas Kellan, two talented Pro-Warriors with extensive combat prowess, distracted long enough for Vira and Black King complete the mission in capturing Tomas Sev from his prison cell. The villainous team greatly injured half of the Rogues and many of the elite soldiers from Ratatoskr, as well as taking down Fraxinus in one single attack.
Ga'ashekelah or Gamchicoth in Kabbalistic tradition are the Qliphoth or demonic powers associated with Chesed, the fourth Sephirah of the Tree of Life. They are called the "disturbers" or "Breakers in Pieces" are depicted in traditional lore as giants with heads of cats. Their name may be spelled Agshekelot, Gog Sheklah, or Gamchicoth. The cortex is Azariel with the arch-demon of Astaroth.
Ga'ashekelah in this Sphere are an order of devourers who seek to destroy or devour the substance and thought of creation. The outer form is the order of Azariel, "The Binding Ones of God." Azriel elsewhere is named as one of the fallen angels controlling six cohorts. Astaroth seems to be an androgynous deity. She was considered a Semitic fertility goddess and equated to Astarte, a predominate Phoenician fertility goddess, counterpart of the Babylonian goddess Ishtar. However, in the fifth century BCE there began appearing in the temples of Astarte inscriptions suggesting the perceptions her as an emanation of Baal Samin, personifying his divine power. Also to this end, Astaroth is mentioned in The Lesser Key of Solomon as a very powerful deity assisted by four deities. In the Dictionaire Infernal he is depicted as a naked man with dragon-like hands and feet, a second pair of wings behind the first, wearing a crown, holding a serpent in one hand, and riding a wolf or dog. It is interesting that Astarte is usually depicted naked too, and, in Egyptian style, wearing a crown of cows' horns enclosing a sun disc. A.G.H.
