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He served as the second primary antagonist of the series, the first being Malebolgia and the third being Satan. In the comic book series God Is Dead by Jonathan Hickman and Mike Costa, Mammon is accidentally created in an underground lab in an attempt to build a god capable of destroying the World's most powerful pantheons, as they battle for ...
For example, the Book of Revelation does not say the Antichrist will be the son of Satan (it does not even mention him), but the idea was made popular in at least two movies, The Omen, and its sequels, with the evil child, Damien, who grows up with the destiny to rule and destroy the world, and Rosemary's Baby with her son, Adrian.
To Reign in Hell is a 1984 fantasy novel by American writer Steven Brust. It deals with the revolt of angels in Heaven from a point of view that casts Satan as a sympathetic protagonist. The novel appears to be heavily influenced by John Milton 's Paradise Lost .
This book attempts to provide an account of all the knowledge concerning superstitions and demonology. Collin de Plancy presented a hierarchy of demons based in modern European courts: Princes and dignitaries: Beelzebub, supreme chief of the empire of hell, founder of the order of the Fly. Satan, prince dethroned and chief of the opposition party.
The geography of hell is very elaborately laid out in this work, with nine concentric rings leading deeper into Earth, and deeper into the various punishments of hell, until, at the center of the world, Dante finds Satan himself trapped in the frozen lake of Cocytus. A small tunnel leads past Satan and out to the other side of the world, at the ...
The classical underworld deities became casually interchangeable with Satan as an embodiment of Hell. [190] For instance, in the 9th century, Abbo Cernuus, the only witness whose account of the Siege of Paris survives, called the invading Vikings the "spawn of Pluto." [191] In the Little Book on Images of the Gods, Pluto is described as
William Blake regarded Satan as a model of rebellion against unjust authority [172] and features him in many of his poems and illustrations, [172] including his 1780 book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, [172] in which Satan is celebrated as the ultimate rebel, the incarnation of human emotion and the epitome of freedom from all forms of reason ...
Malphas, by Louis Le Breton, 1863 Sigil of Malphas. In demonology, Malphas is a demon who first appears in Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum.That work and the Lesser Key of Solomon describe him as a mighty Great President of Hell, with 40 legions of demons under his command and is second in command under Satan.