kennethreitz
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Publish the Obsidian vault's Knowledge folder as /knowledge (881 notes, 67 folders), with a Knowledge item in the nav and footer. - scripts/import_knowledge.py regenerates data/knowledge from the vault: slugged paths, folder notes as index pages, wikilinks resolved to site links (or plain text), callouts, highlights, and Dataview tables rendered statically. Personal notes are withheld via an exclusion list plus a privacy guard. - tuftecms/core/knowledge.py builds a concept index from note titles and aliases. First mentions on ordinary pages link to their Knowledge note (capped, never in headings, code, links, or sidenotes); Knowledge pages list related notes and where they're mentioned across the site; other pages get a Related Knowledge block. - Knowledge URLs join sitemap.xml (so the sweep test covers them), never displace existing legacy slugs, list alphabetically, and mermaid diagrams render client-side only on pages that have them.
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description, source
| description | source |
|---|---|
| The stork-earl who builds towers and fills them with the instruments of war. | obsidian-knowledge |
Halphas
The stork-earl who builds towers and fills them with the instruments of war.
The Spirit
Halphas — also written Halpas or Malthus — is the thirty-eighth spirit of the Ars Goetia, a Great Earl who appears in the form of a stork and speaks with a hoarse, rough voice. He is one of the martial spirits of the catalogue, concerned wholly with the machinery of war: the raising of fortifications, the arming of soldiers, and the dispatch of men to the field of battle. Where the astronomical and scholarly spirits attend to the heavens and the herbs, Halphas is a builder of towers and a quartermaster of arms.
His stork-form is a curious emblem for so warlike an office, but the grimoires are consistent on it, and the tradition treats him as a grim and practical spirit, occupied with the logistics of conflict rather than its glory.
Office
The Goetia says that Halphas builds up towers and fills them with weapons and ammunition, and that he sends men of war to designated places. His office is the provisioning and disposition of armies — the fortification of strongholds, the stocking of arsenals, and the movement of troops toward the places where they are commanded to go. He is, in effect, a spirit of military engineering and supply.
Attributes
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Number | 38 |
| Rank | Earl (Great Earl) |
| Legions | 26 |
| Appearance | The form of a stork; speaks with a hoarse voice |