That's not an easy art for sure! :D

I didn't know you knew each other 😊

Oh, I also need to amend any time I talk about Sumerian mythology that I don't equate it directly with Zacharia Sitchins interpretation... I think he put a modern sci-fi kind of spin on it that really messes up peoples first impressions, but it's a beautiful mythology that I think possibly creates the foundation for many many later myths...

What do you think of the JoS views on Satan/Lucifer? They also relate Satan to Enki

@@shadowdragon3521 I could see how Satan could be equated to Enki but it's more symbolically because he's the adversary to "The Most High God" by being a challenge to "The Throne Far Towards The North", personally though I have my own view of Satan as a distinctly different entity that's much more malicious in nature. I sort of relate Satan to "Set" of Egyptian Mythology, The God of Chaos who reigns in place of Osiris after dismembering him and while he rules as God, Chaos, War and Suffering thrive. I practice with a lot of shamanism and witchcraft and I view it almost as the same relationship as the Sumerian Mythology with Enki and Enlil as the Egyptian Mythology of Osiris and Set... Enki is like Osiris... He's the Lord of The Underworld, but he's a Benevolent Figure... He's the most loved God of all the People and that creates the Jealousy that leads to Set dimsembering him and scattering his parts across the known world... IT's through the act of the Divine Goddess Isis that Osiris is reborn as Horus... The Birth of Horus signifies a changing of the cycles of time like the Yuga Cycles... Satan or Set rules over the "Kali Yuga" or "Dark Age" as God Himself, creating an inversion of sorts where Satan actually rules from the Throne of God as a "Powerful Force in a High Place" much the way that the establishment Church and Religious organizations have immense power and rule with an iron fist while poverty and ignorance run rampant... I view the initial mythology as evolving into what it became and the relationship between Enki and Enlil becoming the foundation for the myths of Osiris and Set or even the feud between Zeus and Poseidon... Eventually it manifests as the battle between "God" and "The Devil" with The Devil being related to everything that Enki was initially related to... For giving forbidden wisdom.. For working with females and giving them high status, veneration and respect. Enki is related to Magic which is "Witchcraft" which the Church Demonizes... Enki viewed humanity as the children of the Anunnaki and wanted to foster them up to "Become as Gods Themselves", which is why he found them important enough to spare them by warning Ziasudra/Utnapishtim/Noah. I think that entire mythology was lost creating a major misunderstanding... Enlil is like Satan... He was Jealous and Vengeful... He raped his cohort and hid from her in the Sumerian Underworld in disguise and then further tried to manipulate and lie to her... Enlil brought about the genocide of humanity and Enlil was among the Anunnaki who turned on their own cities and brought them to ruin.. IT's as if they were a family of supernatural beings like Djinn that began interaction with humanity thus sparking a major evolution of our consciousnous and way of life in the form of civilization and knowledge... Our modern concept of the biblical narrative is that there must be a "Satan" that's pure evil, but I think Satan has become it's own archetype that represents everything toxic about humanity such as being the culmination of the Seven Deadly Sins... A way of destroying humanity through corrupting them and viewing them as puppets and slaves... I personally love Ea Enki and think he's just very misunderstood... He's like "The Allfather" but has been the victim of the equivelent of millenia of propaganda with all of the things that were once considered positive attributes being the embodiment of what is called "Evil" by the church, such as "Magick"... Ea Enki would still be considered a "Fallen Angel" as he was one of the beings that descended upon the middle east bringing literal divine forbidden knowledge that started civilization that eventually went to war on itself and fell into ignorance and misunderstanding, but without that fall and gift of civilization humanity would not have had many wonderful things that have helped us to develop along our own paths towards becoming "Godlike" as the Anunnaki are... The gifts of Art, Music, Writing, Architecture, Agriculture, Metal Working, Herb and Root Cutting, Astronomy, Astrology and all of it was brought to humanity by the God Ea Enki who took it on as a mission to lift humanity out of the wilds and put them in homes and provide them with food.... His Emissary, Adapa The Sage fished daily to provide the townspeople with food which he carefull prepared with "Clean Hands' every single day... Adapa became the first known Exorcist in known history who cured people of sickness which is said was brought on humanity by his refusal of Immortality from Anu at the behest of Enki... Upon refusing Immortality, Adapa returns to the Earth and becomes the most legendary person in the known world and his name itself becomes an epitaph for "Wise" and Kings for hundreds of years afterwards call on his name in their exorcism rituals... So I view Ea Enki as a Hero of the Story, a tragic fallen outsider, certainly with his own degree of darkness but with good intentions... I would view Satan as the enemy of humanity on the deepest level and the embodiment of Greed and Lust...

Thanks for sharing knowledge. Had to pause the video, it just took me. Devil is ancient in humanity's thought and only recently-ish made the scape goat. Truly, a great friend to us and embodiment of the free spirit and free thought opposing tyranny.

A fun fact: originally Satam was only a title which meant administrator. Both Enki and Enlil had this title in Mesopotamia. In Christianity he's the administrator in Hell.

How is she neutral when she's wearing earrings that shows she's into witchcraft

Glad for your enthusiasm

Thanks

thanks!

Thanks

IKR? This Religious Studies public outreach renaissance from Angela's Symposium, Esoterica, Religion for Breakfast, Let's Talk Religion, etc. is pretty dope. Yo from the STEM side of grad school, btw!

oh how I would love to see a crossover episode of fashion history & religious studies!

@@webspinner420 ikrrr, there's actually a lot that can be explored!

Glad it was helpful!

I mean, it's been over 1600 years. Pope Gregory I started his papacy in 590.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Great

That is an interesting twist on the latin. The Roman's real name for the Evening star was Vesper, which I think simply means evening. Lucifer's original greek counterpart was Phosphorus (also "Light-bringer") and Vesper's was Hesperos, which I don't know the meaning of.

Many thanks!

satan is symbol of evil. and you are hailing him.

You’re welcome 😊

Only if he will stop trying to deepen his voice, causing every time he said “the” he ends up pinch his vocal cords sounding like smeegle…and yes I am a vocal coach and can tell he is trying to deepen his voice and it’s causing him to do vocal gymnastics that are quite distracting to be honest. Brilliant man but damn 😂

what? @@CaXreLL

Glad you think so!

This video comes the closest, I think, to answering your question. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lZZxa8in15zMf5c.html There is also the presentation at the ESSWE conference but I am assuming you saw that kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r6ldm6mAnc6ZZZs.html

Enki and loki also

brightbite- they sound like the couple from the movie "Ghost World."

@@brianjauch9958 He was a walking stereo-type. All black, big a$$ baphomet on a thick silver chain, goatee, slicked back hair. They were middle-aged. Directly told my mother that S*tan guided his whole life, "Hail S*tan" every few sentences. When he saw my mother's cross he sneered at her, "Boy, it's too bad we can't crucify people these days!" He was constantly driving past our house really slow, his head all out the window of his car. A couple of their parishioners came by the house very late while my parents were gone a couple of times. I did not go to the door, but they kept on knocking and ringing. My point is, there are fanatics in EVERY religion.

Sounds unpleasant.

So would you consider your Satanism to be right hand path ?

​@@lyartbane2115 My Satanism is mostly based on Paradise Lost and the Romantic Satanist literary canon for sure, and the nonconformity and rebellion of all that, though I also enjoy demonology. I'm nontheistic, but I guess the ritual trappings of demon worship could be seen more like zoolatry, as opposed to authority-based. I don't find the LHP/RHP dichotomy very important to me, to be honest. I think it can be limiting. I'm not averse to feeling a sense of union with nature as something greater than myself, but I also refuse to submit myself to any god or authority. I guess for me the highest spiritual ideal would be a kind of anarchic symbiosis. And I think that by undermining authority and supporting individuality, a person serves others and serves the world. I hope that clarifies

@@RedSeaGull I’m not sure what to make of that. Is your Satanism more of a philosophy then, rather than a religious practice ?

@@lyartbane2115 I think there's a lot of overlap between philosophy, religion, and spirituality. I do consider Romantic Satanism my religion though, along with the demonology, rituals, ambience, literature, worldview

@@RedSeaGull I see. From my perspective I prefer a more structured approach. As put forth by Anton LaVey. Such as foundational texts. A specific system of ritual, holidays, philosophy etc. Rather than a sort of “make it up as you go”.

Seems he meant a medical issue

It's an archaic term for the medical condition hydrocephalus (liquid buildup around the hrain that can cause brain damage, seizures, stroke etc).

El/Enlil = Baal/Beelzebub

yes, my mistake!

What about death, disease etc? Imagine, he has spoken rubbish 😂😂😂

Absolutely. Especially so when you consider that early christians would label the pagan gods as demons/devils. It only makes sense that if pagan gods are devils to christians, then THE Devil would be an especially prominent pagan god.

Satan means adversary/obstacle/accuser. So satan isn’t a name of an entity. Anybody or anything can be called satan that stands in the way, in that case standing against righteousness. So when Jesus was talking to satan he was talking to his “lower self” not a demonic entity or fallen angel as the church wants you to think.

Not true, Satan turns up in new testament to tempt Christ, an entire conversation is documented between them. Jesus repeatedly called Satan the "Prince of THIS world", He is a real Spirit being who is as doomed as he is evil... choose your side wisely, Satan has no real power beyond this pathetic world, God operates this world like a big Spirtual test for our souls, and those that chose unwisely to follow the scumbag who pretends to be powerful and oh so "wise" will end up in the trash heap... 🗑 re-read the New Testament and listen to Jesus closely, he is the only way, the truth and the light of the world 🙏... and don't fall into organised religion (that is another trap of Satan's), Jesus didn't come to set up religion, Jesus came to tell us to develop a PERSONAL relationship with our Creator through our example and Saviour Jesus Christ ❤️ 💙 🙌 🙏

@@carmencampeanu7810 I said only once in the O.T. In the N.T. he's all around. Thanks.

Yeah slander and libel

@@gamejew38 ok, so the antichrist movement to return to israel. Being seperate and in defiancr of the messia ic movement out of London. There is evidence that his disciple that claim to be is reincarnation worked with the Rothschild family and formed up the illuminatus. I mean it's all quite interesting history. Do you know that the Muslims claim that the new Antichrist is going to come out the West from an Island full of spies. Practically describes my home. Like i am a series of checked off doomsday prophecies. My Tick Tock is most thedangerousgamer by the way.

There is none, both are LARPers

I'd like to point out that many Theistic Satanists don't even believe in the Abrahamic god, let alone practice the Abrahamic religions. Many sects are actually polytheistic, and/or even believe that the Abrahamic devil is a corruption of the real deity (such as with Temple of Set). So while not all of them are pagans, some of them actually are. You can't really make these broad generalizations given how many unique sects exist.

While Satanism seems (anti-)christian on the surface, most forms rely on certain aspects of pagan mythology/religion on a practical level. The anti-christian symbolism is very present in Black Metal for example, but I think the number of Satanists founding their religion on mere christian mythology is vanishingly small compared to the rest.