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Satan

Satan, also known as the Devil, is an entity in Abrahamic religions who entices humans into sin or falsehood. In Judaism, Satan is seen as an agent subservient to God, typically regarded as a metaphor for the yetzer hara, or 'evil inclination'. In Christianity and Islam, he is usually seen as a fallen angel or jinn who has rebelled against God, who…

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Satan

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related to Second Temple period · 44
Satan → Abraham, Achaemenid Empire, Achaemenids, Angra Mainyu, Azazel, BC, Book, Chief, Dead Sea Scrolls, Edomite, English, Enoch, For, God, Greek, Greek New Testament, Hadad, Hebrew, Hebrew Bible, In
related to Modern era · 35
Satan → Abel, According, After, America, American Christians, Americans, Belief, Bible, Book, Britain, Cain, Christianity, Christians, Conversely, Devil, Douglas Davies, Encyclopædia Britannica, Fifty-one, God, In
related to Patristic era · 31
Satan → AD Christian, Attar, Babylon, Canaanite, Celsus, Christian Church, Christians, Church Fathers, Dialogue, Eden, Ezekiel, Garden, God, Heylel, Isaiah, Ithobaal II, Justin Martyr, Latin, Leviathan, Lucifer
related to Early modern period · 29
Satan → Both Protestants, Brian Levack, Catholics, Christians, De, Devil, During, Dutch, Early Modern Period, England, Europe, France, Germany, God, In, Jacob Sprenger, Johann Weyer, John Calvin, Kramer, Luther
related to Allegations of worship · 26
Satan → Catharism, Cathars, Catholic Church, Christian, Christians, God, However, In, Indo-European, Islamic, Islamic Middle Eastern Indo-European, Lucifer, Melek Taus, Middle Ages, Muslims, On, Pope Gregory IX, Rama, Satanic, Shaykh Adi
related to Islamic mysticism · 26
Satan → According, Adam, Ahmad Ghazali, Ahmad Ghazali's, Attar, Biblical Benjamin, Cunning, For, God, God's, He, However, Iblis, Iblis's, In, Islamic, Muhammad, Musafir, Muslim Sufi, Rumi
related to In film and television · 25
Satan → Alex Sanders, Angel Heart, B-movies, Black Masses, Castle, Dennis Wheatley, Devil, Eye, Georges Méliès' The Haunted, Hammer Film Productions, Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby, Islamic, Later, One, Over, Satanic, Satanism, Semum, So-called, The
related to Names · 25
Satan → Abaddon, Abyss, Apollyon, Ba'al Zabul, Baal, Beelzebub, English, Flies, Germanic, Greek, Hebrew Bible, In, Latin, Lord, Middle English, New Testament, Old English, Old Testament, Philistine, Prince
related to Atheistic Satanism · 23
Satan → According, Atheistic Satanism, Church, First Satanic Church, Gilmore, Hebrew, High Priest, In, LaVeyan Satanism, LaVeyan Satanists, Man, Peter, Prometheus-like, Satanism, Satanist's, Satanists, Satans, The, The Church, The Feared Religion
related to In music · 22
Satan → According, Black Sabbath, Charles Gounod's Faust, Devil, Devil's Music, Giuseppe Tartini, In, Later, Lucifer, Mick Jagger, Middle Ages, Niccolò Paganini, References, Robert Johnson, Rolling Stones, Satanic, Sympathy, Tartini, The Devil's Trill, Tommy Johnson

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Satanis asymbol of virtuous characteristics and liberty0.90text
Satanis aone tormenting him.Islamic traditionAffiliationIn the Quran0.90text
Satanis afallen angel or the leader of a group of evil jinn0.90text
Satanis aone tormenting him0.90text
Satanis asymbol of Man living as his prideful0.90text
Satanis areal entity0.90text
demonic possessioninstance ofSatan's significance greatly increased as beliefs0.80text
witchcraft became more prevalentinstance ofSatan's significance greatly increased as beliefs0.80text
Voltaireinstance ofbelief in the existence of Satan was harshly criticized by thinkers0.80text
selfishnessinstance ofSatan is generally seen in his Talmudic role as a metaphor for the yetzer hara and the symbolic representation of innate human qualities0.80text
Celsusinstance ofencountered opposition from pagans0.80text
who claimed in his treatise The True Word thatinstance ofencountered opposition from pagans0.80text

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