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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM_Matt" data-source="post: 888763" data-attributes="member: 1213">Re: Re: Re: Names????What was that about religious intolerance again?  ...Mr. Kettle, there is a Mr. Pot holding on Line one.....BTW, the way you describe those origions is rooted slightly in truth but twist it so much that it doesnt much resemble reality.  Baal, meaning master, was indeed a Canaanite god, but not considered a devil until much later.  At the time he was worshipped, when all religions were almost-exclusively tied to peoplehood/clan, he was just someone that the Bible said not to worship beucase doing so meant defection from the comunity to join an enemy people that they were actively at war with.  Later, in Christian times, when the role of Satan was increased, poeple reinterpreted certain references in the Bible to foreign gods or to demons as having sometihng to do with Satan.  The Bible is reinterpreted all the time to fit the context that it is read in. That is really one of the beauties of the work.  As far as Pan and the ourobourous, remember that human/animal hybrids were incredably common ways of imagining demons and other monsters for humans of all cultures.  Certain animals like goats, snakes, and many others, were used more than others, often due to their own particular negative qualities (I don't think, for instance, that one needs to make the tremendous logical leap about the ourobourous to figure out why people often found snakes to be bad)</blockquote>

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