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  2. Shaitan - Wikipedia

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    Depiction of a shaitan by Siyah Qalam, c. 14th/15th century. The art-style of Uighur or Central Asia origin was used by Muslim Turks to depict various legendary beings. [1]A shaitan or shaytan (Arabic: شَيْطَان, romanized: shayṭān; pl.: شَيَاطِين shayāṭīn; Hebrew: שָׂטָן; Turkish: Şeytan or Semum, lit. 'devil', 'demon', or 'satan') is an evil spirit in Islam, [2 ...

  3. List of occult symbols - Wikipedia

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    The third pictured, alchemical for black sulfur, is also known as a 'Leviathan Cross' or 'Satan's Cross'. Sun: Alchemy and Hermeticism: A symbol used with many different meanings, including but not limited to, gold, citrinitas, sulfur, the divine spark of man, nobility and incorruptibility. Sun cross: Iron Age religions and later gnosticism and ...

  4. Satan - Wikipedia

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    Satan, [a] also known as the Devil (cf. a devil), [b] is an entity in Abrahamic religions who seduces humans into sin (or falsehood). In Judaism , Satan is seen as an agent subservient to God , typically regarded as a metaphor for the yetzer hara , or 'evil inclination'.

  5. Dante's Satan - Wikipedia

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    Satan, the angel, was enamored of his own beauty, power, and pride, and attempted to usurp God's divine throne: [dubious – discuss] I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit on the mount of assembly on the heights of Zaphon ; I will ascend to the tops of the clouds, I will make myself like the Most High.

  6. Iblis - Wikipedia

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    The underworld is the domain of Iblis, however, they meet him only in person at the end of the journey. Although there are similarities to Dante's Satan in the Halls of Eblis, Beckford's Satan, clearly inspired by the figure of Iblis, is that of a young man with mixed traits of pride and despair, and not that of a monstrous being. [101] [102]

  7. Beelzebub - Wikipedia

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    Satan and Beelzebub, the captains of Hell in Paradise Lost by John Milton. In Mark 3:22, the scribes accuse Jesus Christ of driving out demons by the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons. The name also appears in the expanded version in Matthew 12:24,27 and Luke 11:15, 18–19, as well as in Matthew 10:25.

  8. Devil in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Pan in particular looks very much like the European devil in the late Middle Ages. It is unknown if these features are directly taken from Pan or whether Christians coincidentally devised an image similar to Pan. [253] Depiction of the devil as a satyr-like creature is attested since the 11th century. [253]

  9. Asmodeus - Wikipedia

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    Asmodeus as depicted in Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal.. Asmodeus (/ ˌ æ z m ə ˈ d iː ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἀσμοδαῖος, Asmodaios) or Ashmedai (/ ˈ æ ʃ m ɪ ˌ d aɪ /; Hebrew: אַשְמְדּאָי, romanized: ʾAšmədāy; Arabic: آشماداي; see below for other variations) is a king of demons in the legends of Solomon and the constructing of Solomon's Temple.