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jd1984_1
· 3 years ago
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I thought demons were angels that turned to the dark side.
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purplepumpkin
· 3 years ago
And when they do, they put effort in their appearance :)
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nightkami
· 3 years ago
Depends on which texts you read. Some suggest that the first demon was actually Lilith, Adam's first wife. She was made from the same dust that he was and refused to be subservient. That's why the next wife was made from his rib.
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lucky11
· 3 years ago
Lilith as you've described didn't make an appearance until at least 600AD. It also seems to be an amalgamation of a night creatures, night monster.... etc. Since then there's been alot of mythology created about her. Probably to make the story more interesting. The idea was romanticized, in the classical sense, extensively through the middle ages leading to the current form of Lilith.
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lucky11
· 3 years ago
It's not so much that they're horrifying monstrosities as beyond our ability to truly comprehend what we're looking at. In several incidents they appear as just men so they do possess the ability to appear normal if it's warranted of them. They just don't or it isn't in many depictions of them in the bible. The best description of the idea I've seen in modern literature is in C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy.
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