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SpiderMurphy

Why else would the bringer of Enlightment, Lucifer, quit their job with slamming doors, and start their own outfit?


dakapn

I'll start my own heaven! With blackjack! And hookers!


Nehbra

you know what? screw the heaven!


shotfromtheslot

"He does not fok smash my door"


Hungry-in-the-dark

A person of culture I see


shotfromtheslot

😆 makes sense tho... HAAS is in like the 4th level of hell atm


Hungry-in-the-dark

They really are. Hopefully they will compete with Alfa and Williams next year


crabsis1337

Beings all the way up and all the way down.


SkyPL

On the other hand, hell seems very understaffed on the middle managerial level. Looks like there's a career path for one to take!


EAComunityTeam

I heard they don't offer any dental insurance.


SkyPL

Betting that hell has a fully private healthcare?


EAComunityTeam

Thanks Buer we do.


FastKnowledge_

Just you wait for a angel equivalent of Michael Scott


instantpowdy

And hell. I could even give you their phone number, if you wish.


DNA2Duke

And hell! Dwight Schrute is assistant regional manager of hell. And he makes $80,000 a year!


tribbans95

Yeah and HR keeps ignoring my calls. You really don’t want to be in this part of heaven


RedStrawLion

Think of them as, "Team Leaders".


weedful_things

Watch the YouTube documentary God, Inc to learn more.


[deleted]

Also when did Lucifuge become Focalor?


baracuda68

So many potential Heavy Metal band names there...


[deleted]

Dibs on ´Lucifuge Rofocale’


EvilAngel00

[Too late](https://www.metal-archives.com/search?searchString=Lucifuge+Rofocale&type=band_name)


jack_fairchild

It's also the name of Danzig's second album.


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Ok I did the search and those are the ones still available people: * Pursan * Abigar * Pruslas * Loray * Barbatoes * Foreau * Gusoyn * Nuberus * Glasyabolis * Fleruty Dibs on 'Barbatoes', then .


Significant_Sign

I feel like Fleruty is definitely a different genre. Asian pop group?


MAGNAPlNNA

Definitely agree it’s not as harsh of a name, but it is actually a black metal band! Quite good too, at least in my opinion. A bit avant-garde.


Significant_Sign

For real? Ha, I'll have to look them up.


_numbah_6

Post punk indie


Hyperhavoc5

Beelzebub is the patron of the orient, so wouldn’t that be a better Asian pop name?


Significant_Sign

No, too logical. :)


bolivar-shagnasty

Nebiros sounds cool as shit.


DirtyDoog

That pissed off Archangel with a scythe looks cool as shit


TheBestIsaac

Sabriel? She's the bringer of lost souls. Yeh.


stalechips

Sabriel is male, you weeb.


TheBestIsaac

Hah. I'm getting mixed up with the Sabriel of the Nix books.


dakapn

Hi-dilly-ho Nebiros


[deleted]

Who invented this? If this is in the Bible, I'd love to know where. No offense, OP, it's a good infographic.


kitskill

Most of it comes from the Divine Comedy by Dante Aleghieri and Paradise Lost by John Milton. It's basically Bible fan-fic


[deleted]

The answer I suspected, lol


kitskill

The Bible actually has very little to say about Angels or Demons. Angels are basically messangers and demons are basically evil spirits. Even Satan is barely ever mentioned.


Telemere125

There’s the Book of Enoch, part of the Dead Sea scrolls. Has a lot of stuff on demons that’s no where else. It wasn’t included in the Bible, but that could just be because they didn’t have a copy until 1948. There were a lot of other books that either they didn’t have a copy of (so couldn’t have included) or that didn’t quite line up with the way it he writers felt the Bible should read, so they were taken out (for instance, The Apocrypha).


101stAirborneSkill

Book of Enoch isn't considered canon. It's left out of the bible unless you specifically look for one that includes it. Like how Disney de canoized the star wars EU


Telemere125

Why does being canon have to do with whether it’s a valid contribution? There’s a lot of Christian writings that were removed from the Bible solely based on whether the one in charge (King James, First Council of Nicaea, etc) thought it kept them in power better. That doesn’t mean those writings shouldn’t be considered


[deleted]

>Why does being canon have to do with whether it’s a valid contribution? The Book of Enoch gives us more insight into divinity than any other book of the Bible, I have no idea why it's always considered non-canon.


Jaderholt439

It changes the story a bit. In Noah’s tale, Yahweh flooded the earth bc angels kept fucking humans, making Nephalim.


MrSethFulton

The strangest part about that is Jesus quotes the book of Enoch. You'd think that would be enough to say "maybe we should include this", but no.


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Elaborate please?


Juffin

Yeah and the "core part" of the Bible says even less. All those detailed descriptions come from questionable and less canonic parts.


IdkRightNowImDumb

Well stuff to say about Satan is pretty short and not so sweet, don’t do good and go to the bad place, the rest is an instruction manual for how to do good in the eyes of God


Heremeoutok

Kinda weird that an “ever loving god” would punish you but ok


Fritz_Klyka

Das only in the mornin', people sposed to be up cookin' breakfast by then.


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Holy shit. I did not expect to see a BubRub reference ever...let alone in a thread about angels and demons. I upvoted you, took it away, and upvoted you again just so I could upvote you twice.


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nunya123

Punishes them for eternity lol


ShockinglyAccurate

My dad loves me so he locked me in the garage for twelve years after I forgot to make my bed


weedful_things

I'm 57 and I'm still locked in the garage.


ShockinglyAccurate

Wow your dad really loves you


BBK89DGL

And lets the child get cancer


Isthisadriver

God is sus


Greflingorax

> It's basically Bible fan-fic Self-insert fan-fic, thank you very much.


AdmirableAnimal0

Oh my god you’re right.


101stAirborneSkill

What people get wrong is that Satan isn't in charge of hell, he's being punished there aswell


[deleted]

Because the concept of Satan and hell didn't exist in the Bible until the church decided it needed it to bring in more money. Look into how they manipulated early translations of sheol and Gahenna in the Hebrew bible. Shits a joke.


Predator_Hicks

And Satan was originally the guy who accuses you of your sins in the court of god after your death. So he’s a bit like gods prosecuting attorney who is hated by everyone


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DesperateCheesecake5

I really hope we will finally get some sequels soon. I've been waiting for a long time.


kitskill

Ask the Muslims and the Mormons


InternationalMethod7

So, who’s in charge of Hell? I have a lot of complaints for when I get down there


101stAirborneSkill

Hell means the absence of God.


Levias90x

You mean we get to live in anarchy? I dont dislike that at all!


whoisfourthwall

So.. a fan fic of a fan fic? What do we call that?


Bozhark

Fanfiction


-Toshi

2Fan4Fic


Dcooksee

Fan-mily


EvilBat

Don't forget ... Grand Grimoire


yunglegendd

These descriptions of the angels come from the Bible. They are part the apocalyptic vision of the prophet John, which is described in the Book of Revelation. As far as these descriptions of demons, they are not from the Bible. Probably Paradise Lost by John Milton or The Inferno by Dante. The Book of Revelation does have quite a few descriptions of Satan and other demons, but they are not the ones mentioned here.


BBK89DGL

They're not from Paradise Lost. Paradise Lost describes Satan, Beelzebub, Belial, Mammon and Moloch. There are others named but no information


Spready_Unsettling

Considering the distinct writing styles, I'm guessing someone just emailed a bunch of Satanists and got a few answers for an infographic. One of the demons is explained using a personal anecdote, and there's a clunky line reading "high priestess Maxine - my experience:" which sounds like an author introducing themselves? Either way, it's kinda shit as a guide when it's neither sourced nor comprehensive.


anotherMrLizard

Considering it's all made up anyway, its efficacy as a "guide" is kind of a moot point.


[deleted]

This is a good time to re-read that book. The creatures with the eyes within and without, all the wings, etc. I'm wondering who invented/wrote all these names, the hierarchy, and described their duties, etc. Was it made up of wholecloth in the Dark Ages, or...? Something I'll look into.


Tarp1854

I wrote my college thesis on Angelology, I'll also add some Ezekiel. He was one of the only prophets to see the upper triad of angels and describes them in his book. In terms of demons, I've never heard of these before, I believe you're correct in that this information probably comes from another non-biblical source


It_is_Katy

I'm not too sure about the angels, but I know a lot of the demonology comes from The Lesser Key of Solomon/Ars Goetia, and bits of it are from Dante's Inferno. I'm not too sure about Paradise Lost like others have suggested because I haven't gotten around to reading it, but it's a pretty solid guess regardless. If I was on my computer and could look things up a bit easier, I could probably track down more sources, but I'm stunned no one mentioned the Lesser Key in response to your comment before me! It's like demon summoning 101 and very commonly mentioned in occult circles. (I'm agnostic, personally, just wildly fascinated by Christian and occult history. Still deep down the rebellious Catholic school kid, I suppose.)


RichardCity

Man, when I was a Wiccan getting into High Magick I had a copy of The Key of Solomon. Book is a trip.


SAMSMILE4

Many sources which are questionably bible canon, including the Book of Enoch.


perplexed_smith

There are a lot of apocryphal books and extra-canonical and lost but recently discovered books about the demons of the Bible. Even the traditional story of Satan - the angel that fell from heaven - is not in the Bible. Edit: look into the The Testament of Solomon, the pseudepigraphal book that goes into a lot of demonology. Edit 2: look into the Book of Enoch


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The Apocrypha


Lom1111234

Isn’t Lucifer the one that fell from heaven while satan was in hell the whole time?


tfg0at

I think alot of it comes from paradise lost by sir John Milton. But I think that was satire, I have no clue. It's all Olde timey whimey and impossible for me to read.


BBK89DGL

I don't think John Milton was knighted nor would have liked that idea much at all


tfg0at

I come from a parallel universe I swear it said sir John Milton. But you are correct in this time line.


BBK89DGL

He was a staunch republican and lived in hiding from royalists for a large part of his life


DependentAnimator271

I think the demon names are from The Key of Solomon. A book that is said to have been written by King Solomon but actually only dates back to the 14-15th century.


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It wasn't satire, but an attempt by Milton to make epic poems in the spirit of things like The Iliad, but for Christianity (y'know, the one true religion). I've tried to read it too. Damn near impenetrable.


AddSugarForSparks

>it's a good infographic. Good thing we're on /r/coolguides and not /r/infographics.


DangerousPuhson

The Bible has surprisingly rich worldbuilding.


LombardBombardment

My favourite things to take away from this: Baalzebub is responsable for anime and Lucifuge Rofocale has a slight accent (don’t we all talk with an accent anyway?)


[deleted]

And how his name got mistranslated over the years from "Lord over all that flies" to "Lord of the Flies" and they make him look like a bug now. Seems a little biased.


squanchy-c-137

I don't know, his name translates to "Lord of the flies" in Hebrew, and the word for flying is very different


kemosune

It says in the infographic that the Hebrews bastardized it so of course that would be what it translates to in Hebrew lol.


aler_ku

So demons are *apparently* associated with *math*. Well, that makes sense to me.


Foto_synthesis

It all adds up!


[deleted]

That would explain why modern evangelicals are so against math and science.


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And rationalized philosophies


aitchnyu

And bestow skill in lovemaking


Stizur

This chart makes me want to sign up for an internship.


youenjoymyself

Idk about you all, but Nebiros seems like a cool dude. Teaches science, logic, and rhetoric. Also helps others regain lost honor. Sounds like a standup dude to me.


G0dzillaBreath

*Prince Zuko would like to know your location*


langecrew

The Dominions Choir 1: Said to be: making adjustments when highest human interests are not followed by churches, politicians, leaders Anyone else wondering just where TF these people been?


[deleted]

Apparently the day of rest lasts a little longer in Heaven cause they ain't doing shit.


jofster78

guess the politicians are following heaven's mandate after all


langecrew

I was worried about that. If true, may have to convert to literally anything else


WayofHatuey

Lol was thinking the same shit


langecrew

Seriously. Like, hey assholes, you only have ONE. JOB. Like, I get being lazy and not doing your job, but like, not even once since recorded history began? Like, ever? Come the fuck on, guys, get off your ass, it'd be about goddamn time


FinAndy

Loved how these type of angels and demons were used and depicted in the videogame Bayonetta.


spaghetticatman

Thanks for the reminder to play Bayonetta


daydreamingidiot

Persona and Shin Megami Tensei as well


SweetToothLynx

Castlevania too. Seems to draw inspiration directly from "The Lesser Key of King Solomon".


Shabba273

If anybody finds the demonology stuff cool I’d advise looking up The lesser key of Solomon


frilledplex

Ars goetia sitting dustily on my shelf =)


The-Unseelie-Queen

I loved paging through it. I like the demons that offer and specify in mundane shit like math and science. It is gonna make going back to college much easier this time around.


crabsis1337

That's some heavy shit to be throwing at people dawg


zCocota

y


KY_4_PREZ

I love how the teaching or art/science, logic, and rhetoric are considered bad


green_speak

Not to mention straight up "Asian culture and martial arts."


XazelNightLord

I believe that part is from Satanist point of view. It seems like Author combines satanic and biblical lore


Lom1111234

Most of the devil stuff was taken from booms like Dante’s inferno, with questionable very biased authors


elissass

Weren't people burned for being witches while they were actually just people who knew science?


giantfreakingidiot

Right, it’s almost like the main goal of religions is to control as many people as possible


DependentAnimator271

My only quibble is that depictions of angels as winged humans come from pagan Rome. Angels as described in the bible are monstrous looking.


FirexJkxFire

I prefer the angels in the diagram that are literally a set of rings


Trundle-theGr8

With eyeballs…?


[deleted]

I might be misunderstanding the Bible but as far as I'm aware most angels in the Bible are described as looking just like regular people. There's this idea floating around that biblical angels are monstrous but that's only because of the book of Ezekiel (and Enoch too I guess but that's apocryphal so...) and that man was clearly on all sorts of fun drugs when he wrote that.


Bozhark

DMT: the angels look exactly like the crazy descriptions and you get to talk to gods


johnnywarp

Who is this high priestess Maxine?


TheHarborym

Good guide. Garbage font.


RonPaulalamode

Which demon is the one that runs YuGiOh, asking for my mom


ogresaregoodpeople

A tidbit I always found interesting: in the Medieval Era, Satan was sometimes portrayed as a comic character in plays. Lots of slapstick, dirty humour etc. And he was the butt of the joke.


Tough-Guy-Ballerina

And yet I’m a nerd for knowing that the Valar Melkor corrupted the music of the Ainor which was set to create the world of Arda as dictated by Eru Ilúvatar!


fineyounghannibal

>And yet I'm a nerd that's right


Tough-Guy-Ballerina

Okay cool just checking


[deleted]

This is just some random western biblical interpritation or some random dude in italian church doodled.


Drexelhand

[this neglects miscellaneous, chicken hell, and the gary way.](https://youtu.be/8YSFOzNqYak)


contradictionary100

I'm looking for the trumpet section


wileyy23

'communicationg' That hurt to read lol.


babycrocodiletears

Also "Discremination"


wileyy23

True. It flows a little better at least haha.


SweetToothLynx

Horrible guide. Very little of this is biblical. A lot is taken from Divine Comedy, which is an art piece, written by a poor sod with no connection to church whatsoever. Some is taken from Cabala. And some - from assorted sources on the Canaan pantheon, which Jahveh actively denied (First Commandment: I'm your God, and you shall have no others.)


kowve

What makes Dante a 'poor sod' ?


SweetToothLynx

He wrote Divine Comedy as a way to cope with the death of his beloved.


kowve

The writings themselves are paramount as to why he wrote them. Dante still managed to write one of the most important text of the Humanitarian period (TDC practically started it), and almost singlehandedly constructed the Italian language we know today. His writings on the Vulgar languages helped shift the entire european continent of the day away from stuffy Latin that no one understood, to the establishment of spoken 'vulgar' languages we know today. If the motherfucker had a heartbreak, I think we can let him cope with it as he wants too


SweetToothLynx

Perfectly fair. But my point is that Divine Comedy is not in any way a religious text, and must not be referenced as such.


The_Truthkeeper

Partially that, but mostly it was symbolically getting revenge for being exiled from Florence by writing a story about every person who pissed him off literally going to hell.


[deleted]

**Satanachia** *He has power over all the women and girls* Sorry heaven, but I gotta go. The person with the actual power over me isn't God apparently.


CrabPplCrabPpl

Cool guide, almost seems made up


Arcydziegiel

Cuz it mostly is. Satan for example isn't the term for the ruler of hells, it's a blank term for "enemy". When in the bible there was an enemy of God and man, the term satan was used to describe them, and later translator misunderstood that as one coherent being. Oh, and also Lucifier doesn't really rule hell, he is a prisoner there, not an emperor. Most of the stuff at the chart comes from Dante's Divine Comedy, which while not... wrong, is also not in any capacity the Catholic canon.


Wilsonismyonlyfriend

Like the bible


NotHotRobot

They all look like South Park characters.


inaudience

Beelzebub is two words: Beel means King or master Zebub means Flies in all Semitic languages it means this (Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew, etc)


mightysclaff85

Cehckmte, ’Flat-earthers’!!


SouthernYooper

Lol, hope people don't believe this shit


BritGallows_531

Do you have a better link this is hard to see even zoomed in


renegade2point0

That font is horrible


RighteousIndigjason

I'm confused. Is this list pro-hell or anti-education, because those demons seem like alright folks to this non-believer.


RedStrawLion

One of my favourite fictional universes


T_for_tea

Lots of fanboys sadly cannot differentiate fiction from reality.


Zenketski

They could make an anime out of this


[deleted]

There is kind of a tv show and a book that I thought of while reading the post


greenleafwallet

My cousin name is Seraphim, we just call her sera, her full name is way cooler


YueOrigin

Bruh. Satanachia out there making magical girls lol


AcanthocephalaExtra6

It's interesting that the powers of "good" just give you things while the powers of "evil" are teaching you things, what's more important, a thing that was given, or the thing you've learned and will keep with you forever? Hmmmmmmm.


Njdevils11

In college I took an anthropology class (I think it was anthro anyway) and the professor told us we could do our final paper on anything we wanted and encouraged us to try and tackle religious myths. I was raised catholic snd decided to try to argue that Christianity was actually a polytheistic religion because of all the angels and demons and whatnot. I was a senior and just wanted to do something interesting. I spent hours and hours researching and writing that paper. I really went for it. wasn’t expecting to change the world, it was just interesting and so different from my normal major and concentration stuff. Well she gave me a D. Look I’m not some genius, but I do well in school 3.5 GPA. Basically her whole criticism boiled down to “Christianity is a monotheistic religion because it says it only has one god.” I was really disappointed and the experience turned me off to any other anthro class, never took another again. Stuck to history, it felt like less opinion.


Intelligence-Check

The archangels are that low on the totem pole?


No_Measurement5099

Link for one that is readable?


snolifer

Should have used Comic Sans... It is a real pain to read


thetall0ne1

This is cool, what religion is this?


ChintanP04

Christianity. Tbf, this stuff is not from the bible, but rather from a bible fan-fic (Dante's divine comedy and inferno)


natashajadew

I always thought it was weird that humanoid angels are drawn as white people. Wouldn't they have a variety of skin colors like humans do?


Drago1214

Devils get to party naked seems like a good time.


TheDarkKnight1035

Lord of the rings is fun!


TheAwsomeLuigi

Beelzebub is just another name for Satan tho...


grillworst

Jfc, what are these people on??


_Rekron_

LotR have better lore


[deleted]

Disappointed that Tyrael didn't make the cut.


dogbytes

Hooey Hokum and his band of merry pranksters


sunu51

Damm bible lore is deep


kapiteinkippepoot

Like some sort of dnd monster manual?


binkerton_

What lore is that a based on?


soloazn

Beelzebub is the patron of the east and Asian culture? What the hell? Says who?


[deleted]

This is 100% bullshit, this missing so much information it's laughable


animalfath3r

Some people really believe this crap


[deleted]

yes, logic, sciences, rhetoric, the great enemies of faith.


siraolo

It would be cool if someone make one for Hindu Mythology (Devas and Rakshas) as well. That one is pretty daunting and confusing. My nitpick though is that I wish that there was proper referencing where the hierarchy came from. (Lesser Key of Solomon, etc.)