RE: Inverted Cross
September 26, 2011 at 12:42 pm
(This post was last modified: September 26, 2011 at 12:49 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Nah, the idea of Satan as a goat, or a representation of him as such wasn't a part of early christian dogma. We had a discussion about this awhile back. The devil as we see him now is a product of Medieval European culture. To an early christian the statement "You are offering your soul to satan" would be more accurately translated as "You are offering your soul to nothing". They didn't have any developed sort of idea about satan, or even hell that we would recognize as such today. Pan would be a pagan god, by any reckoning of the word btw.
"Pan's goatish image recalls conventional faun-like depictions of Satan. Although Christian use of Plutarch's story is of long standing, Ronald Hutton has argued that this specific association is modern and derives from Pan's popularity in Victorian and Edwardian neopaganism. Medieval and early modern images of Satan tend, by contrast, to show generic semi-human monsters with horns, wings and clawed feet."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_(god)
(I love this stuff so much..lol)
"Pan's goatish image recalls conventional faun-like depictions of Satan. Although Christian use of Plutarch's story is of long standing, Ronald Hutton has argued that this specific association is modern and derives from Pan's popularity in Victorian and Edwardian neopaganism. Medieval and early modern images of Satan tend, by contrast, to show generic semi-human monsters with horns, wings and clawed feet."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_(god)
(I love this stuff so much..lol)
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