• Anisette [any/all]@quokk.au
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    2 hours ago

    as I understand it Satan is officially a title and means something like “the adversary”, and Lucifer got this title after being cast out of heaven

    • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
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      35 minutes ago

      Lucifer was just farrying light (ferre lucis - the bringer of light), but that just means morning star/Venus.

      But like all such texts and oral traditions the dude had several previous roles via random translations, misrememberings, story evolution, several distinct religions, mashups of all those, etc.

      I mean, look at this

      wiki/Lucifer