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| Daggers of Megiddo | |
| Type: | Weapon |
| Continuity: | Omen film series |
| Aliases: | Seven Daggers of Megiddo Seven Sacred Daggers of Megiddo |
| Availability: | Uncommon item |
| Manufacturer: | Unknown |
| Owners: | Carl Bugenhagen Richard Thorn Father DeCarlo |
| 1st appearance: | The Omen |
The Daggers of Megiddo are fictional items featured in The Omen film series. They first appeared in the 1976 film The Omen as well as its 1978 sequel Damien: Omen II and Omen III: The Final Conflict. They also played a large role in the short-lived Damien television series.
History[]
Adult Damien Thorn with one of the Megiddo daggers.
The daggers of Megiddo are a set of seven bladed weapons, presumably fashioned in the ancient city of Megiddo in Jezreel in northern Israel. The daggers are named after the Seven Churches of the Apocalypse as indicated in the Book of Revelation. These weapons carry a divine enchantment upon them and are capable of permanently killing the one who bears the Mark of the Beast (666), also known as the Antichrist. One dagger is all that is required to destroy the physical host body, but all seven daggers placed at particular points on the body are required to destroy the evil essence within. The first dagger must be stabbed in the center of the body corresponding to the center of the cross, while the others must be placed in order from the center to the extremities, so that the spiritual energy can radiate outward and leave the host.
In 1975, the daggers were in the possession of a venerable exorcist named Carl Bugenhagen. Carl met with American ambassador Robert Thorn, whose adopted son Damien bore the 666 mark upon his scalp. Bugenhagen assured him that Damien was the Antichrist and the only way to destroy him was to stab him with the daggers on hallowed ground. Robert took the daggers with him back to his car where his partner Keith Jennings was waiting on him. Thorn decided that he could not go through with it and threw the blades into a nearby alley. Keith went to retrieve them, at which point a sheet of glass slid off a passing truck, decapitating Jennings.
Returning home, Robert Thorn first sought to determine whether Damien Thorn was in fact the Antichrist. While the child slept, Thorn began cutting his hair until the Mark of the Beast became visible to him. Damien's nanny, Mrs. Baylock, who was secretly a Satanist and guardian of the Antichrist, attacked Robert Thorn, forcing him to kill her in self defense.
Convinced now that Damien truly was evil, he dragged the child out of bed, put him in his car and took him to a church. He placed the struggling child down upon an altar and was prepared to stab him when police entered the building and shot Robert before he could complete the deed. [1]
A week after funeral services were held for Robert Thorn and his wife Katherine, the seven daggers made their way back to Carl Bugenhagen. Bugenhagen tasked a friend named Michael Morgan to deliver the daggers to Damien's new guardian. Moments later, the ruins of Yigael's Wall, which contained a mural depicting Damien Thorn as the Antichrist suddenly collapsed, burying the daggers. They were not seen again for another twelve years.
Excavation of the ruins eventually uncovered the daggers. The daggers came under the possession of Doctor Warren of the Thorn Museum, who informed Damien's adoptive uncle, Richard Thorn, of the boy's true lineage. Richard acquired the daggers from Doctor Warren in Chicago. Warren was killed soon after in a freak locomotive accident and his own son, Mark Thorn, also mysteriously died from a sudden brain aneurysm. Richard Thorn was now convinced that his nephew was exactly what Bugenhagen believed him to be - the Son of the Devil. Like his brother before him, Richard attempted to use the daggers to assassinate the now teenage Damien Thorn. Richard's wife, Ann, revealed herself to be a Satanic follower of Damien and used the Megiddo daggers to kill Richard. Damien himself then used to his Hell-spawned powers to cause the Thorn Museum to explode. [2]
The daggers were soon recovered from the burning ruins of the museum and found their way into the possession of Father DeCarlo of the Subiaco Monastery. DeCarlo aligned himself with six other priests who spent years preparing to use the blades against Damien while simultaneously awaiting for the prophesied Second Coming. The priests laid out a trap to ambush Damien Thorn, but Damien spotted Father DeCarlo first. When he attacked, Damien used the body of a child named Peter Reynolds as a human shield. Damien then throttled Father DeCarlo, which enabled Peter's mother, Kate Reynolds to opportunity to pick up DeCarlo's dagger and stabbing Damien Thorn in the back, putting an end to him once and for all. [3]
Notes[]
- Dagger of Megiddo, Megiddo daggers, and Seven Daggers of Megiddo and the Seven Sacred Daggers of Megiddo all redirect to this page.