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 |
|---|---|
| A stork’s hoarse voice, promising truth and dealing in deception. | obsidian-knowledge |
Shax
A stork’s hoarse voice, promising truth and dealing in deception.
The Spirit
Shax — also rendered Chax, Scox, or Shaz across the manuscript tradition — is the forty-fourth spirit of the Ars Goetia, a Great Marquis who appears in the shape of a stork or dove speaking with a harsh, hoarse voice. The grimoire warns that he is a spirit of doubtful loyalty: he will lie and deceive the operator unless he is compelled into a triangle of art and there bound by the exorcist’s authority. Once constrained, however, he becomes obedient and speaks with reasonable candour, no longer troubling those who summoned him.
His temperament captures a recurring anxiety in the Solomonic literature — that a spirit’s power and its treachery scale together. Shax is prized precisely for the things a deceiver can do, and the ritual apparatus exists to turn his cunning to the operator’s ends.
Office
The Goetia says Shax takes away the sight, hearing, and understanding of any person at the operator’s command, and that he steals money out of kings’ houses and returns it after a set span of time. He carries things from place to place, and when commanded he discovers hidden treasures that are not guarded by wicked spirits. He gives good familiars, and will occasionally reveal knowledge, though the text cautions that his revelations may themselves be false unless he has been securely bound.
Attributes
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Number | 44 |
| Rank | Great Marquis |
| Legions | 30 |
| Appearance | A stork or dove, speaking with a hoarse, subtle voice |