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Originally Posted by octothorp
Basically, what we view as Satan/Lucifer today is a combination of a stories about a perfectly obedient angel who acted as a 'devil's advocate' for God, a Caananite myth about the Morning Star, a babylonian king, some creative interpretation by both Jewish and Christian early (slightly pre AD and early AD) writers, and a whole lot of fictionalization by later poets.
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Good post Octo.
If anyone's interested in this stuff gets a chance to see the BBC documentary "The Devil: An Unauthorized Biography - The Birth of Satan", it's quite well done and really interesting. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to dig up a copy online -- the only one that shows up is the similarly titled look at Marilyn Manson.
I did find
this similar documentary (about 1hr long), which isn't bad for an overview, but the Unauthorized Biography is really fantastic.