Temeluchus is an angel described in various early Christian texts. He first appears in the 2nd-century Apocalypse of Peter as a care-taking angel who looks after children who died of infanticide. The phrase may well have literally simply meant "care-taking one" as a description without intending it as a name. Nevertheless, later works refer to an angel by that name, whether from the Apocalypse of Peter or perhaps the Greek "Telémakhos". He prominently appears in the Apocalypse of Paul, which was popular and influential for centuries in the Middle Ages. There, he largely tortures souls in hell. Temeluchus may have been loosely based on the Greek god Poseidon, as he is depicted as wielding a "great fork" in the Apocalypse of Paul. He and an angel named Tatirokos may have been a matched pair, or even two titles for the same angel. Some later sources refer to him as the leader of the tartaruchi, the angels of torment.