Lord Lucifer, hear my prayers
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[–] 6 points 6 months ago (5 children)

as I understand it Satan is officially a title and means something like "the adversary", and Lucifer got this title after being cast out of heaven

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

    Lucifer was just farrying light (ferre lucis - the bringer of light), but that just means morning star/Venus.

    But like all such texts and oral traditions the dude had several previous roles via random translations, misrememberings, story evolution, several distinct religions, mashups of all those, etc.

    I mean, look at this

    wiki/Lucifer

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