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Lucifer: Encyclopedia Ii - Lucifer - Literature
Lucifer is a key protagonist in John Milton's Protestant epic, Paradise Lost. Milton presents Lucifer almost sympathetically, an ambitiou...
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Lucifer: Encyclopedia Ii - Lucifer - Lucifer In Roman Poetry
Lucifer is a poetic name for the "morning star", a close translation of the Greek eosphoros, the "Dawn-bringer", which appears in the Ody...
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Lucifer: Encyclopedia Ii - Lucifer - Lucifer In The Christian Tradition
Jerome, with the Septuagint close at hand and a general familiarity with the pagan poetic traditions, translated Helel as Lucifer. Much o...
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Lucifer: Encyclopedia - Lucifer
Lucifer is a Latin word made up of two words, lux (light; genitive lucis) and ferre (to bear, to bring), meaning light-bearer. Lucifer ap...
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Blind Guardian: Encyclopedia - Blind Guardian
Blind Guardian is a power metal (and more recently epic metal) band started in the mid-1980s in Krefeld, Germany. Before calling themselv...
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Satan: Encyclopedia Ii - Satan - Among Polytheists
Satan - Syncreto-Paganism.
In Neopagan religions that have assimilated aspects of Abrahamic mythology into their own pantheons, Satan, ...
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Dis: Encyclopedia - Dis
Dis is usually a proper name and may mean:
Dis (Altered Beast) (see Altered Beast), a fictional city in the Altered Beast video game
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Samael: Encyclopedia - Samael
Samael is an important figure in Talmudic and post-Talmudic lore, a figure who is accuser, seducer, and destroyer. Legends mentioning Sat...
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Satan: Encyclopedia - Satan
Satan (שָׂטָן Standard Hebrew Satan, Greek and Latin Sátanas, Tiberian Hebrew Śāṭān; Aramaic שִׂטְנָא Śaṭanâ: bot...
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Characters Of The Sandman: Encyclopedia - Characters Of The Sandman
This is a list of characters appearing in The Sandman. This page discusses not only events which occur in The Sandman, but also some occu...
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Belial: Encyclopedia Ii - Belial - In Christianity
In early Christian writings, Belial was identified first with an angel of confusion and lust, created after Lucifer. Paradoxically, some ...
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Belial: Encyclopedia Ii - Belial - In Christianity
In early Christian writings, Belial was identified first with an angel of confusion and lust, created after Lucifer. Paradoxically, some ...
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List Of Fictional Swords: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Fictional Swords - In Mythology
List of fictional swords - Greek mythology.
The Sword of Peleus, a magic sword that makes its wielder victorious in the battle or the ...
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Satan: Encyclopedia Ii - Satan - In The Hebrew Bible
In the Hebrew Bible, Satan is to be better understood as an "accuser" or "adversary" than as an embodiment of "evil." The term is applied...
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Satan: Encyclopedia Ii - Satan - In Rabbinic Literature
Early rabbinic Jewish statements in the Mishnah and Talmud show that Satan played little or no role in Jewish theology. In the course of ...
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Satan: Encyclopedia Ii - Satan - In The Hebrew Apocrypha
In Wisdom ii. 24 Satan is represented, with reference to Gen. iii., as the father of all lies, who brought death into the world; he is ap...
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Satan: Encyclopedia Ii - Satan - In The New Testament
Satan figures much more prominently in the New Testament and in Christian theology generally. In the New Testament, Satan appears as a te...
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Satan: Encyclopedia Ii - Satan - Satan In Islam
Shaitan (شيطان) is the devil, or the enemy of Allah and is the equivalent of Satan in Christianity and Judaism. The Islamic view of ...
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Mike Resnick: Encyclopedia Ii - Mike Resnick - Themes
Two notable trends run through the majority of Resnick's science fiction work. The first is his love of fable and legend. Many of his sto...
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Impact Event: Encyclopedia Ii - Impact Event - Impact Events In Fiction
The impact event has been a plot and background element in science fiction since knowledge of real impacts became established in the scie...
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Characters Of The Sandman: Encyclopedia Ii - Characters Of The Sandman - The Basanos
The Basanos is a fictional character in the comic book Lucifer, a spinoff of Sandman,
The Basanos is a living Tarot deck created by the s...
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Characters Of The Sandman: Encyclopedia Ii - Characters Of The Sandman - Mazikeen
Mazikeen is a fictional character from Neil Gaiman's Sandman mythos. The name "Mazikeen" comes from that of a shapeshifting demon of Jewi...
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Characters Of The Sandman: Encyclopedia Ii - Characters Of The Sandman - Unity Kinkaid
Unity Kinkaid is a fictional character from Neil Gaiman's comic book series, The Sandman.
Unity first appears as one of the victims of th...
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Characters Of The Sandman: Encyclopedia Ii - Characters Of The Sandman - Rose Walker
Rose Walker is a fictional character from the Sandman series written by Neil Gaiman. She makes her first appearance in issue #10, part on...
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Characters Of The Sandman: Encyclopedia Ii - Characters Of The Sandman - Alex Burgess
Alex Burgess is a fictional character from Neil Gaiman's comic book series, The Sandman.
He is the son of Roderick Burgess, mother unknow...
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Characters Of The Sandman: Encyclopedia Ii - Characters Of The Sandman - Roderick Burgess
Roderick Burgess is a fictional character from Neil Gaiman's comic book series, The Sandman.
Roderick Burgess (1863-1947) was the Lord Ma...
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Characters Of The Sandman: Encyclopedia Ii - Characters Of The Sandman - Foxglove
Foxglove is a fictional character from the Sandman series, a lesbian musician who first appears in A Game of You.
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Characters Of The Sandman: Encyclopedia Ii - Characters Of The Sandman - Cain And Abel
Cain and Abel are a pair of fictional characters in the DC Comics universe based on the Biblical Cain and Abel.
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Characters Of The Sandman: Encyclopedia Ii - Characters Of The Sandman - The Corinthian
For a longer description, see also: Corinthian (comics).
The Corinthian is a fictional character in Neil Gaiman's comic book series The S...
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Characters Of The Sandman: Encyclopedia Ii - Characters Of The Sandman - Lucien
Lucien is a fictional character in Neil Gaiman's comic book series The Sandman. He serves as the chief librarian in The Dreaming, and is ...
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Characters Of The Sandman: Encyclopedia Ii - Characters Of The Sandman - Bast
Bast, the cat-headed goddess of cats, is a fictional character from Neil Gaiman's comic book series, The Sandman.
Once a major goddess, t...
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Characters Of The Sandman: Encyclopedia Ii - Characters Of The Sandman - Thessaly
Thessaly is a fictional character in the Sandman comic book series. Neil Gaiman named this character after the land of witches, Thessaly,...
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Lucifer: Encyclopedia Ii - Lucifer - Lucifer And The Hebrew Bible
Lucifer is used by Jerome in the Vulgate (4th century) to translate into Latin Isaiah 14:12-14, where the Hebrew text refers to heilel be...
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Lucifer: Encyclopedia Ii - Lucifer - Lucifer In Astronomy
Because the planet Venus (Lucifer) is an inferior planet, meaning that its orbit lies between the orbit of the Earth and the Sun, it can ...
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