It was also reputed to be made of solid gold. The demons built it in about an hour, but it far surpassed all human palaces or dwellings it was probably quite small, however, as its spacious hall is described as being very crowded with the thronging swarm of demons, who were taller than any human man, until at a signal they were shrunk from their titanic size to less than "smallest dwarfs". (In Roman times, Mulciber was another name for the Roman god Vulcan.) Book II begins with the debate among the " Stygian Council" in the council-chamber of Pandæmonium. It was designed by the architect Mulciber, who had been the designer of palaces in Heaven before his fall. John Milton invented the name for the capital of Hell, "the High Capital, of Satan and his Peers," built by the fallen angels at the suggestion of Mammon at the end of Book I of Paradise Lost (1667). Pandæmonium thus roughly translates as "All Demons"-but can also be interpreted as Pandemoneios (Παν-δαιμον-ειον), or 'all-demon-place'. A full symphony that swells from the most vocal of more than 350 avian throats representing more than 40 species. The name stems from the Greek pan (παν), meaning 'all' or 'every', and daimónion (δαιμόνιον), a diminutive form meaning 'little spirit', 'little angel', or, as Christians interpreted it, 'little daemon', and later, ' demon'. Each morning at first light, Michele Raffin steps outside into the bewitching bird music that heralds another day at Pandemonium Aviaries. Pandæmonium (or Pandemonium in some versions of English) is the capital of Hell in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost.
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