Hey all, this is my first time using the NaNo forums so be nice, please.
In my story, the main character has some prophetic dreams that include images of Satan and the Antichrist. I'm pretty sure every religion has some kind of evil incarnate, so I was just wondering you could share your descriptions from whatever religion you know about.
Any religion will help. I'm trying to get as many as possible so I could possibly combine similarities.
Thank you so much.
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Nov 5, 2009 - 15 31
Horns! I've been influenced by the popular horns, forked tail, and cloven feet image, so that's the first thing that springs to mind. I'd try wikipedia for various images/descriptions. It should have a ton of stuff.
Good luck!
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Nov 13, 2009 - 03 30
In Christian theology, Satan is an entirely spiritual being, which means no physical body and hence no gender or set appearance. So Satan's appearance could be any it wished to take on depending on its intention.
There are symbolic images of Satan in the Christian scriptures, of course, such as a sentient, talking serpent, and as a massive dragon able to sweep stars from the sky with its tail and spew a flood of filth from its mouth. Satan also appears in the Bible in the form of a human man with power and riches at his disposal and who tries to tempt Jesus to sin. In another part of the Bible, Job, Satan is described in a way similar to a prosecuting attorney, accusing, probing and trying to get a man convicted of wrongdoing.
Medieval tradition, inspired by a passage in the Bible, also added the symbol of a goat. Goats tend to be irrascible troublemakers in real life with destructive appetites so its a fitting image. There also were hybrid images of Satan as a human who was part-goat (like a mythological satyr with hooves and horns) or as a human that was part-dragonlike (with bat-like wings and a forked tail).
Wikipedia is a decent source for this topic.