Agathos Daimon or Agathodaimon/Good Daimon
Agathodaimon was the civic god, the beneficent spirit, the guiding spirit, the protector god and guard of Alexandria and of the Alexandrians. Agathodaimon was a Hellenistic hybrid god with his own sanctuary. He was the product of coalescing a popular serpent god with the Egyptian god Shai.
To the Greeks, Agathodaimon was the guardian of the vines and the cornfields, and it honoured it after meals by drinking a cup of pure undiluted wine. Agathodaimon was represented like a snake and sometimes like a young man holding a horn of plenty and a bowl, or a poppy and ears of corn.
Shai personified fate or destiny, and existed both as a deity and a concept. Shai was sometimes made a goddess, Shait. Shai was born at the same moment as the individual and stayed with him until death. Shai's decrees were inescapable. In the Weighing of the Heart scene in the New Kingdom funerary papyrus of Ani, Shai appeared as a man without special attributes. In the Instruction of Amenemope (a book of moral and religious precepts), one passage stressed the futility of pursuing wealth by stressing that no one can ignore Shai, i.e. escape their fate. For the Egyptians, Shai was the master of their fates, the one who decreed how long they would live, and who would accompany them when they faced their final destiny. Shai was described in inscriptions from the reign of the heretic king, Akhenaten in the 18th Dynasty, as a personification of the span of years, and prosperity that a person can expect to enjoy. Both the king and the god Aten were described as "the Shai who gives life." Shai was also frequently mentioned beside minor goddesses who had some affinity with his role. Even in late antiquity, households lit lamps out of devotion to Shai, whom they perceived as a folk spirit of protective favour.
Daimons, in Greek mythology included deified heroes, and were considered intermediary spirits between men and the gods, acting as spiritual advisors. A good daimon, called "eudaimon," was considered to be a guardian spirit, giving guidance and protection to the one being watched over. A bad daimon, called "cacodaimon," led a person astray. Such an inner daimon is the inner voice of conscience and corresponds to the higher self. Socrates had a daimon that always warned him of danger and bad judgment, but never directed his actions. It was more accurate than the respected divinatory techniques of watching the flights of birds or reading their entrails. Proclus was allotted an exceedingly good daimon, while when that of Plotinus was evoked in a temple of Isis, onlookers were surprised to find that it was more like a god than a mere daimon. It is from this ancient concept that the Christians conceived the idea of the "guardian angel."
In late antiquity, Agathodaimon was called upon in favour and victory charms, divinations (vessel inquiries and staring into a flame), sending dreams and consecrating magickal rings. Coins from the period portray what is believed to be a monumental altar of Agathodaimon, featuring pine cones and a fire on a temple roof.
