Like I said: this is just ONE version and specifically a mystic tradition I'm reasonably sure is defunct.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl and
But in that tradition I think the demons had their own progenitors rather than being fallen angels per se. Lilith's counterpart is Asmodeus?
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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl and
I in fiction like to establish devil's are fallen angels and demons are separate native born infernals
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Replying to @ingdamnit @loudpenitent and
Or, like in Supernatural, to establish that THE Devil is the only angel to ever fall and the demons are his creations
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ingdamnit and
I always liked that bit of their mythology
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ingdamnit and
It puts some Zoroastrianism back into it, making the Devil unique
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ingdamnit and
In Judaism the Serpent is definitely not Satan, yes? And the Devil is or is not identified with an angel known as Lucifer?
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
Satan in at least SOME traditional Judaism - again gotta be careful - is God's prosecuting angel. He's not evil.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl and
The Lucifer story afaik is very much a later Christian (and then Muslim) story
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
The overall fascination with fallen angels and demons was a big deal in 2nd Temple era Judaism where Christianity comes from
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But -- possibly in reaction to Christianity -- later rabbis rejected the idea of fallen angels
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
And the Christian fascination with interpreting the "prince of Tyre" from Isaiah as metaphorically the prince of the fallen
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
There's a whole discussion to be had about how Judaism in the 2nd Temple was very heterodox
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