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I was once tempted by a similar idea when I was doing occult research for another writing project but I gave up when I realized 3 things;
1: The list would be endless. It would take years to sort out the mistranslated and corrupted names alone. It would also be impossible to distinguish between authentic demon names, names of older deities, mythic characters, and those demons which people may have actually believed in at one point and time as opposed to those merely fictional demons such as Zuul and Gozer.
2: It's already been attempted several times by better researchers than myself and most of them failed at the above point.
3: There's no future in it. Writing such a book will not earn you money or get you laid....and everyone knows those are the only 2 reasons anyone writes anything.
I wouldn't put too much faith in the Goetia if I were you. Several manuscript copies exist, all differing from each other, and the published version is based on only one of them. Rather than regarding the Goetia as any one single authoritative text you'd be better off to think of it as a collection of texts--or better yet, as merely a theme around which several texts were written.
I'd also get a full list of all the names of the astrological decans and their images. 90% of the "demon" names in those old books are actually corruptions of the decan names and images. Entire books have been written on decan art alone and that only accounts for a portion of "demon" names.
That should get you started....or kill the idea entirely.
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