(January 5, 2015 at 12:32 pm)Rhythm Wrote: I think that satan has, in recent times, been viewed more and more -as- a promethean figure, but I suspect that this has more to do with the resistance to christian asshatery than it does with the actual character itself.
In fact, Satan is an archetype. The rebel against the god in power, whom you can find in many religions. Go north and there's Loki, go south and you have all the characters trying to dethrone Zeus, go yet a bit further south and you have Seth.