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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: talk.religion
Subject: Re: Lucifer is the patron saint of science and philosophy
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Date: Sun, 7-Sep-86 02:28:20 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  7 02:28:20 1986
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The parallels between Lucifer and Prometheus are even greater.  Both are
gods of an earlier people who were parodied and denigrated by a later
religion.  In the Greek case, the older mythology is that of the Titans,
who were parodied as rude and unkempt by the later Greeks.  In the case of
Satan, the god was Pan, an extremely ancient shamanistic deity, put down by
the usurping Christians.

For references, see Joseph Campbell's "Masks of God".
-- 
Tim Maroney, Electronic Village Idiot and Certified Catholic Theologian
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I keep calling spirits from the vasty deep, but all I get are their
answering machines.