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kennethreitz ce93f429a2 Add Knowledge: the vault's reference shelf, crosslinked across the site
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: “He kindles the fire that draws one body toward another.”
source: obsidian-knowledge
---
# Zepar
> *“He kindles the fire that draws one body toward another.”*
---
## The Spirit
Zepar is the sixteenth spirit of the Ars Goetia, ranked among the Dukes of the infernal hierarchy. The grimoire tradition presents him as a martial figure who appears clad in red apparel and armour, a soldier’s bearing given to a spirit whose concerns are almost entirely amorous. Within the taxonomy of the Lesser Key he belongs to that cluster of spirits devoted to the workings of love and desire rather than the transmission of knowledge, and this narrowness of office lends him a curiously singular reputation among his more encyclopedic peers.
The red of his dress is not incidental in the symbolic grammar of the grimoire — it is the colour of Mars, of blood, of passion inflamed. Zepar is thus figured as a heat that acts upon the affections, a force channelled through ritual toward the binding of one person to another.
## Office
According to the Goetia, Zepar’s power lies in kindling desire: he is said to cause women to love men, and to bring the two together in love. The tradition also attributes to him a darker corollary, the capacity to render the object of such workings barren, a reminder that the spirits of love in this literature are never wholly benign but hold both the making and the marring of union in the same hand.
## Attributes
| Attribute | Value |
|-----------|-------|
| Number | 16 |
| Rank | Duke |
| Legions | 26 |
| Appearance | A soldier in red apparel and armour |
## Related
- [Bathin](/knowledge/angels-and-demons/ars-goetia/bathin)
- [Botis](/knowledge/angels-and-demons/ars-goetia/botis)
- [Ars Goetia](/knowledge/angels-and-demons/ars-goetia)