Newsgroups: alt.mythology,talk.religion.misc,alt.pagan,alt.slack,alt.discordia From: ADDRESS REMOVED FOR SPAM PURPOSES (Paul Harvey) Subject: Re: Christian Daemons? [SPOOKY REALLY] Date: 11 Mar 1993 04:35:36 UTC Biblical demons? All right, you asked for it, but consider yourself warned! As we can see, the Jews are not real big on demons, but the Hellenistic Greeks [a spooky lot!] more than make up for it. Hebrew: 'abaddown - angel of the bottomless (deepest) pit of sheol (abode of the dead) 'atsab - idol [SPOOKY ONE HERE EH?] heylel ben shacher - morning or day star (Venus) son of Dawn, [Roman Lucifer?] ra' ruwach - foul wind, evil spirit [flatulence?] sa'iyr - satyr, goat-demon [I've seen these, basically possessed goats] satan - the adversary [or prosecuting attorney] shed - malignant demon sheqer ruwach - false spirit tam'ah ruwach - unclean spirit Greek: alexandros - man-defender [OK] apolluon - the destroyer [destroyer of what?, is this the Hindu God Shiva?] archaios ophis - the primeval snake [hmm, phallos?] archon exousia aer - chief of the air-force [now this is something to be concerned about!] archon toutou kosmos - chief of this world archon manaen - chief manaen? [Mandeans?] aggelos abussos - angel of the abyss aggelos hamartano - angels of sin, bad angels aggelos phos - angel of light [hmm, sometimes light is good, and sometimes bad, hmm?, tie in to roman lucifer?] aggelos satanas - angel of the accuser akathartos pneuma - foul wind, evil spirit [greek flatulence?] archon daimonion - chief demon-god bathos satanas - mystery of the accuser [hmm, ok] beelzeboul - dung-god, beelzebul, beelzebub belial - worthless one [OK, a little attack on a Pagan God here?] daimon - demon [possible good or bad?] daimonion - demon-god daimonizomai - demoniac diabolos - false accuser, devil drakon - dragon [Freudian] exousia skotos - the dark force [shades of star wars] gog - antichrist [and you thought those TV-ministers made this up?] hepta daimonian - seven demon-gods [always with the sevens eh?] humenaios - god of weddings [interesting eh?] huios diabolos - son of the false accuser huios poneros - son of the hurtful one kosmokrator shotos toutou aion - world rulers of the era of darkness or shadiness magog - nation of the antichrist pater diabolos - father of the false accuser peirazo - tempter, tester planos pneuma - roving (tramp) spirit [Gypsies?] pneuma puthon - spirit of divination [another attack of pagans or shamans?] pneumatikos poneria epouranios - humanly spirits of depravity in the heavens? [OK, see if you can figure this out?] poneros - hurtful one poneros pneuma - hurtful spirit poterion daimonion - cup (drink) of the demon-gods pseudoprophetes - false prophet pseustes pater - lying father purrhos drakon - fire-like (red) dragon santanas - the accuser seleniazomai - moonstruck, lunatic [classic!] sunagoge satanas - synagogue or church of the accuser teknon diabolos - child of the false accuser theos toutou aion - god of this era therion - dangerous animal, beast theristes aggelos - reaping angels [lovely, very graphic] trapeza daimonion - table (food) of the demon-gods