In the original Hebrew, Satan as he appears in Job is “the Accuser”, and fills the role of a prosecutor. He isn’t “the Devil”, as he is generally thought of in Western culture today.
Yeah and Christians always put him and Hades in the evil corner when they’re writing stories based on myths. Even Anubis gets the villain treatment by people who really can’t be trusted with other cultural mythos.
It really makes me wonder if the Germanic/Norse Hel was actually villainous, given how spotty our actual knowledge of their myth cycle was. It’s certainly a convenient name for her to have, but it’s also more than possible “Hell” came before “Hel” entirely organically instead of being evidence of Christian revisionism.
In the original Hebrew, Satan as he appears in Job is “the Accuser”, and fills the role of a prosecutor. He isn’t “the Devil”, as he is generally thought of in Western culture today.
Eh, it’s all reused pagan deities anyway.
In Hinduism Yama is the God of death and a punisher. The lord of hell who punishes sinners.
Yeah and Christians always put him and Hades in the evil corner when they’re writing stories based on myths. Even Anubis gets the villain treatment by people who really can’t be trusted with other cultural mythos.
It really makes me wonder if the Germanic/Norse Hel was actually villainous, given how spotty our actual knowledge of their myth cycle was. It’s certainly a convenient name for her to have, but it’s also more than possible “Hell” came before “Hel” entirely organically instead of being evidence of Christian revisionism.