Paradise Lost
With regards to Milinda's comment, I always thought that Beilzibub and Satan were one and the same, same as Lucifer and so on. All differnet names for the same character. Yet I'm also confused reading Paradise Lost becasue it seems clear that they're actually different characters. And who is the Fiend? I would enjoy this text much more if it was more straightforward.
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as far as i can tell - satan is the ultimate, the devil, the fiend, lucifer, et. al. specific names like moloch, belial, and those, refer to underlings of satan, different idols that were worshipped throughout biblical history. it seems like people who strayed from worshipping god turned to minor devils, rather than satan (the chief devil), to worship. it helped me to create a little mental hierarchy - satan on top (with all his names listed), and then his followers underneath. beezelbub is supposedly next-in-line to satan.
Posted by: ally carey | July 24, 2006 7:41 AM
So it is like the trinity, the father the son and the holy spirit, except it is satan, belzeebub, etc? Is this right or did I confuse it more?
Posted by: amanda hussman | July 24, 2006 12:58 PM
I diagree with the straightforwardness being a bad thing. In a way, reading Paradise Lost reminds me of Middle English and Chaucer. The fun is in sitting down with the dictionary on your computer and looking up almost EVERY OTHER WORD. ha. Maybe that's dorky! But I'm not gonna lie...it's fun!
And Amanda, I think there is some relation to the trinity, especially in book 2 when Sin (?) is speaking about Death, herself (Sin) and the Devil. The whole "'O father, what intends thy hand...Against thy only son'". Strange.
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