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The Book of Revelation represents Satan as the supernatural ruler of the Roman Empire and the ultimate cause of all evil in the world. [104] In Revelation 2:9–10, as part of the letter to the church at Smyrna, John of Patmos refers to the Jews of Smyrna as "a synagogue of Satan" [105] and warns that "the Devil is about to cast some of you into prison as a test [ peirasmos], and for ten days you will have affliction." [105] In Revelation 2:13–14, in the letter to the church of Pergamum, John warns that Satan lives among the members of the congregation [106] and declares that "Satan's throne" is in their midst. [106] Pergamum was the capital of the Roman Province of Asia [106] and "Satan's throne" may be referring to the monumental Pergamon Altar in the city, which was dedicated to the Greek god Zeus, [106] or to a temple dedicated to the Roman emperor Augustus. [106] La Bête de la Mer (from the Tapisserie de l'Apocalypse in Angers, France). A medieval tapestry, depicting the devil as a dragon with 7 heads in the Book of Revelation. The Second Book of Enoch, also called the Slavonic Book of Enoch, contains references to a Watcher called Satanael. [48] It is a pseudepigraphic text of an uncertain date and unknown authorship. The text describes Satanael as being the prince of the Grigori who was cast out of heaven [49] and an evil spirit who knew the difference between what was "righteous" and "sinful". [50] In the Book of Wisdom, the devil is taken to be the being who brought death into the world, but originally the culprit was recognized as Cain. [51] [52] [53] The name Samael, which is used in reference to one of the fallen angels, later became a common name for Satan in Jewish Midrash and Kabbalah. [54] Judaism The sound of a shofar ( pictured) is believed to symbolically confuse Satan. Wood engraving by Gustave Doré depicting Dante’s Inferno, Canto XXXIV, in which Dante and Virgil encounter Satan in the Ninth Circle of Hell.

The Arabic equivalent of the word Satan is Shaitan (شيطان, from the triliteral root š-ṭ-n شطن). The word itself is an adjective (meaning "astray" or "distant", sometimes translated as "devil") that can be applied to both man ("al-ins", الإنس) and al-jinn (الجن), but it is also used in reference to Satan in particular. In the Quran, Satan's name is Iblis ( Arabic pronunciation: [ˈibliːs]), probably a derivative of the Greek word diabolos. [186] Muslims do not regard Satan as the cause of evil, but as a tempter, who takes advantage of humans' inclinations toward self-centeredness. [187] Quran Illustration from a manuscript of Abu Ali Bal'ami's Persian translation of the Annals of al-Tabari, showing Satan ( Iblis) refusing to prostrate before the newly created man ( Adam)

Best Picture was formed by two newspaper columnists, Kenny Farquharson (drums) and Euan McColm (guitar), who have known each other since they were young rival political editors on the Scotland on Sunday and the News of the World. Farquharson has form when it comes to making music with a bestselling novelist; he and Ali Smith were at Aberdeen University together in the early 1980s and would busk in Union Street, he on the bongos, she on the mouth organ. Jordan, William (27 September 2013), "18% of Brits believe in possession by the devil", yougov.co.uk, YouGov Calt, Stephen (August 21, 1994). I'd Rather Be the Devil: Skip James and the Blues. Chicago Review Press. p.12. ISBN 1569769982 . Retrieved September 4, 2022. Bryson, Michael (2004), The Tyranny of Heaven: Milton's Rejection of God as King, Cranbury, New Jersey; London, and Mississauga, Ontario: Rosemont Publishing and Printing Corp., ISBN 0-87413-859-0 Satan appears in several stories from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, [257] including " The Summoner's Prologue", in which a friar arrives in Hell and sees no other friars, [258] but is told there are millions. [258] Then Satan lifts his tail to reveal that all of the friars live inside his anus. [258] Chaucer's description of Satan's appearance is clearly based on Dante's. [258] The legend of Faust, recorded in the 1589 chapbook The History of the Damnable Life and the Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus, [259] concerns a pact allegedly made by the German scholar Johann Georg Faust with a demon named Mephistopheles agreeing to sell his soul to Satan in exchange for twenty-four years of earthly pleasure. [259] This chapbook became the source for Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus. [260]

Although James did not experience commercial success during his prime recording years between the 1920s and 1930s, the songs recorded in this period, including “Hard Time Killing Floor Blues” and “22-20 Blues,” have become canonical in the blues repertoire, with “22-20 Blues” popularized by Robert Johnson as “32-20 Blues.” The most common English synonym for "Satan" is " devil", which descends from Middle English devel, from Old English dēofol, that in turn represents an early Germanic borrowing of Latin diabolus (also the source of "diabolical"). This in turn was borrowed from Greek diabolos " slanderer", from diaballein "to slander": dia- "across, through" + ballein "to hurl". [72] In the New Testament, the words Satan and diabolos are used interchangeably as synonyms. [73] [74] Beelzebub, meaning "Lord of Flies", is the contemptuous name given in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament to a Philistine god whose original name has been reconstructed as most probably "Ba'al Zabul", meaning " Baal the Prince". [75] The Synoptic Gospels identify Satan and Beelzebub as the same. [73] The name Abaddon (meaning "place of destruction") is used six times in the Old Testament, mainly as a name for one of the regions of Sheol. [76] Revelation 9:11 describes Abaddon, whose name is translated into Greek as Apollyon, meaning "the destroyer", as an angel who rules the Abyss. [77] In modern usage, Abaddon is sometimes equated with Satan. [76] New Testament Gospels, Acts, and epistles The Devil depicted in The Temptation of Christ, by Ary Scheffer, 1854 The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Paul Rubens, c. 1615, depicting Eve reaching for the forbidden fruit beside the Devil portrayed as a serpent Tobias Nünlist Dämonenglaube im Islam Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2015 ISBN 978-3-110-33168-4 p.49 (German) Petrusich, Amanda (July 8, 2009). "They've Got Those Old, Hard-to-Find Blues". NY Times . Retrieved October 14, 2020.

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During the first two centuries of Islam, Muslims almost unanimously accepted the traditional story known as the Satanic Verses as true. [210] According to this narrative, Muhammad was told by Satan to add words to the Quran which would allow Muslims to pray for the intercession of pagan goddesses. [211] He mistook the words of Satan for divine inspiration. [210] Modern Muslims almost universally reject this story as heretical, as it calls the integrity of the Quran into question. [212] Enoch 18:3. On this tradition, see A. Orlov, "The Watchers of Satanael: The Fallen Angels Traditions in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch", in: A. Orlov, Dark Mirrors: Azazel and Satanael in Early Jewish Demonology (Albany: SUNY, 2011) 85–106.

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