Guy’s, this is your last chance to back out, there may be less dangerous ways to grow
than making a deal with the Devil.
Is everyone still in?
Yessssss
I’m down, let's do it
I’m ready, let’s do this..
OK then let us begin.
Satan we call upon thee, We have feasted upon your forbidden fruit.
We offer you our blood, our sweat, our tears as sacrifice.
We ask that you use your evil powers to gift us growth of new Subscribers like the world
has never seen before.
We your humble servants ask this of you, the most powerful Beelzebub
Who’s Beelzebub? Wa-wait ... who's Beelzebub
The Lord of Evil, we request your favour.
Lucifer We Summon Thee!
Wait ... Satan, Beelzebub, Lucifer, this is too confusing!
There are actually many names for the Devil.
Ok, with all these interruptions we’re going to have to start over, so while I relight
the incense why don’t you do what you do best and explain the names for the other two,
and to the audience?
Oh god, people care watching us right now?!?!?!
Oh right, the audience.
Audience, this is Patrick from Name Explain, he explains names.
Patrick, this is the audience.
I’ll go redraw that pentagram, back in two!
OK, well I guess we should start with the intro ...
The Devil throughout religion and History has taken many forms, from a serpent in the
garden of Eden to the classic red skinned horned beast we know today - and that’s
just in christianity!.
Yet not only has he had many forms he has many names too, where do all these names come
from and how do they interact with one another?
Many of the most popular religions in the world have a devil character.
Yet just because they are all devils doesn’t mean they are all the same character across religions.
Devil is something of a blanket term that religions use for figures who oppose god.
In the way different movies have different villains, different religions have different
devils, though thinking about it it would be pretty cool if Darth Vader was the villain
in every movie.
The term devil has evolved through language from the ancient Greek word diábolos which
means to slander, which of course is not only the route for the adjective diabolical but
the Spanish name for the devil Diablo.
Another name accosted with the devil (and perhaps the funnest one to say) is beelzebub.
The name has origins in the hebrew language and is a combination of two words of the language.
Ba'al which means to be lord over, and zebub which means fly.
This means that beelzebub literally translates to Lord Of The Fly and throughout history
has been depicted as a monstrous demonic fly; and of course a pigs head on a stick.
But how do Satan and Lucifer fit into all this?
Which of them are the supreme ruler of the underworld, who is the king of sin,
the embodiment of evil, the devil …
Well they both are because Satan and Lucifer are the same person, that person being the
devil of christianity.
The name Lucifer comes from latin meaning light bringer and morning star.
The etymology behind satan is not as clear to us.
While it’s theorised that the name comes from the hebrew word “satan” which means “enemy”
a Yadavas legend tells a story of a city in India called Satana
the people of Satana decided
to resolve their difference with one of the indian dynasties of the time with a conflict
in which the “satan” people eventually lost.
Through time we have come to think of Satan as a being who lost the battle but never the war.
While the bible never directly tells us that Lucifer is Satan it’s not hard to put the
pieces together.
Lucifer was one of God’s angels who battled against him, and in failing was banished to
Hell for doing so, bringing evil and temptation to the humans.
The fall of Lucifer is described in Isaiah 14:12 and in Luke 10:18 Jesus says he “saw
Satan fall like lighting from heaven” making it easy for us to interpret that the fallen
angle Lucifer became Satan.
Islam too has a devil and the story of their devil parallels Christianity as they are both
Abrahamic Religions.
Allah created three intelligent species, humans, angels, and Jinn.
While I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt that you know what angels and
humans are, the Jinn were beings Allah created with free will from flameless smoke that live
in a world parallel to mankind.
One of these Jinn was named Iblis.
When Allah created Adam he commanded all the angels and Jinn to prostrate to him.
All did bar Iblis.
Iblis believe he was superior to Adam and for this Allah banished him for eternity to Jahannam
Iblis vowed to use his eternity to lead all women and man astray and was thereafter known
as Shaitan.
A name not dissimilar to Satan, and it’s even thought that the name Iblis comes from
the same root as devil, the latin diabolos.
So now, What ever you choose to call the beast from below, at least you now know where his
many names come from.
OK, I’ve set up for the ceremony again.
Actually, I’ll got to get to a video on my channel, so can I rain check on the summoning?
You and your audience are welcome to tag along if you want.
Oh.
Well I guess we can grow the old fashioned way.
Meet you over at Name Explain, this should be fun.