MAZ is the sixth of the thirty Aethyrs, or Airs, of the Enochian system, the thirty spiritual regions delivered to the mathematician John Dee and the scryer Edward Kelley in 1584, and named in the record Dee compiled from those sessions. Its three-letter name, MAZ, was received letter by letter through Kelley's scrying.
Place in the system
Each Aethyr is said to contain three Governors among whom the ninety-one Parts of the Earth are divided.
The thirty Aethyrs are the raw gift of the Dee-Kelley sessions; the elaborate visionary content attached to them in modern practice belongs to a later layer, above all Aleister Crowley's The Vision and the Voice, his record of scrying all thirty Aethyrs in 1900 and 1909. The Aethyr is described here as an element of that documented historical tradition, studied as such, its entities not reified.
The three Governors
MAZ's Parts are governed by Saxtomp, ruling Numidia in what is now northern Algeria under King Gebabel of the tribe of Asher; by Vavaamp, ruling Cyprus, one of the few Parts assigned to an island, under King Arfaolg of the tribe of Ephraim; and by Zirzid, ruling Parthia, Rome's old eastern rival, under King Gebabel again. The tabulation's stated purpose, as it was given to Dee, was to furnish a means of acting magically upon the governments of the world, a purpose that sits close to Dee's own well documented ambitions for England. The received material also gives each Part a count of indwelling ministers that runs from a few hundred to many thousands, with no principle behind the variation ever stated.