{"id":45702,"date":"2011-11-19T18:18:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T18:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/19\/bythegods-satan-buckle-up-kids-were-in-for\/"},"modified":"2018-12-03T19:14:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T19:14:39","slug":"bythegods-satan-buckle-up-kids-were-in-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/19\/bythegods-satan-buckle-up-kids-were-in-for\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-45702 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/19\/bythegods-satan-buckle-up-kids-were-in-for\/attachment\/45703\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/tumblr_llvrzfsx1g1qbz35lo1_500.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/tumblr_llvrzfsx1g1qbz35lo1_500.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/tumblr_llvrzfsx1g1qbz35lo1_500.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/19\/bythegods-satan-buckle-up-kids-were-in-for\/attachment\/45704\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/tumblr_llvrzfsx1g1qbz35lo2_500.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/tumblr_llvrzfsx1g1qbz35lo2_500.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/tumblr_llvrzfsx1g1qbz35lo2_500.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/tumblr_llvrzfsx1g1qbz35lo2_500.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/19\/bythegods-satan-buckle-up-kids-were-in-for\/attachment\/45705\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/tumblr_llvrzfsx1g1qbz35lo5_r1_500.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/tumblr_llvrzfsx1g1qbz35lo5_r1_500.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/tumblr_llvrzfsx1g1qbz35lo5_r1_500.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/tumblr_llvrzfsx1g1qbz35lo5_r1_500.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bythegods.net\/post\/5935686530\" target=\"_blank\">bythegods<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Satan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Buckle up, kids\u2013-<em>we\u2019re in for a big one<\/em>! Satan, the big baddie, is a character that most people throughout the world are at least marginally familiar with. He wears quite a few different hats, however, and his role has changed a great deal over the 2,300-odd years he\u2019s been around.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His first appearance was in the book of Job, where he speaks to the god of the Israelites (<a href=\"http:\/\/bythegods.tumblr.com\/post\/523879406\/yahweh-yahweh-is-the-personal-name-of-the-god-of\" target=\"_blank\">Yahweh<\/a>) about the nature of humanity\u2019s faith. He is named as Satan, which means \u201cthe Adversary.\u201d All Satan did was ask the big questions: he observed that those mortals who led rich and happy lives had no problem worshipping God, but how would they feel if they had it all taken away? God saw the point, and picked poor Job, a rich farmin\u2019 man, to prove himself correct. He killed Job\u2019s family, took all of his money, land, and cattle, and covered him with boils. Through it all, Job continued to worship, and God got to whip out the satisfying \u201c<em>told you so!<\/em>\u201d to Satan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Satan, you see, was just another divine dude up in heaven with God. Ipso facto, he was an angel. After the Job story, the Hebrews began to see ol\u2019 Satan as an evil force, and eventually the source of <em>all evil<\/em>. This suggests the influence of Persian thinking: a battle between good and evil, going forever. After all, the Israelites came from <a href=\"http:\/\/bythegods.tumblr.com\/post\/523649666\/sumerian-religion-when-it-comes-to-bein-old-the\" target=\"_blank\">Persia<\/a> before the whole Egypt\/Exodus debacle, and it only makes sense that some mythological and cultural diffusion can be seen there. They created a hierarchy of demons for him to control, to oppose God and his angelic hierarchy, and eventually he had his own origin story put together: the tale, as far as ancient Jewish lore is concerned, had Satan rebelling against God and was hurled by an angel (probably Michael, if you\u2019re curious) into the abyss.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Christians <em>really<\/em> ran with the Satan-stuff. \u201cThe Devil\u201d can be traced back to the Latin diabolus, which is the source of \u201cdiabolical,\u201d and became synonymous with Satan back in the day. In the A<em>pocryphal book of John the Evangelist<\/em>, Jesus describes Satan\u2019s transformation into an handsome fellow with a tail and cloven hoofs. After that, more and more of the world\u2019s wicked side became attributed to Satan.<\/p>\n<p>Dante Alighieri\u2019s <em>The Inferno<\/em>\u00a0(a part of his <em>Divine Comedy<\/em>)\u00a0had Satan at the innermost ring of hell as a great three-faced beast, half-frozen in ice, eternally devouring Judas Iscariot, Brutus and Cassius (Dante was a 14-th century Italian, and not a fan of the whole Julius Caesar-murder-thing). Note: no fire and brimstone. Milton, who expanded on the rebellion motif, put together Paradise Lost in the 17th century, which told the tale of Satan (aka Lucifer) and his rebellion in heaven. In the poem Satan sets himself up as the defeated rebels\u2019 leader, and founds hell on the platform of \u00a0poisoning God\u2019s favourite thing: mankind. \u201cLucifer\u201d translates to the title \u201cMorning Star\u201d or \u201cLight-bearer,\u201d which was how Satan was known before he was cast out of heaven. Back then, he was a powerful angel, according to Christian lore, and was either a Cherubim or Power in the <a href=\"http:\/\/bythegods.tumblr.com\/post\/501497769\/the-christian-angelic-hierarchy-can-be-traced-back\" target=\"_blank\">Angelic Hierarchy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bythegods: Satan Buckle up, kids\u2013-we\u2019re in for a big one! Satan, the big baddie, is a character that most people throughout the world are at least marginally familiar with. He wears quite a few different hats, however, and his role has changed a great deal over the 2,300-odd years he\u2019s been around.\u00a0 His first appearance &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/19\/bythegods-satan-buckle-up-kids-were-in-for\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45706,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45702\/revisions\/45706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}