On Satan, Demons, and Daimons: An Archetypal Exploration
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چکیده
Satan—or the Devil, as he is alternatively known—has remained among the most popular of archetypal figures of Western civilization for more than two millennia. Evidence of strong ongoing popular interest in this imaginal figure—to say nothing of Satan’s horde of demons—can easily seen in the results of even the most cursory ad-hoc research on the World Wide Web. For example, a simple recent search for the terms “demonology” and “satanism” using the AltaVista web browser located over 8,000 citations for the former and more than 25,000 for the latter. Even more amazingly, searching for “Satan” yielded nearly 180,000 citations to web sites, while searching for the simple terms “demon” or “demons” collectively yielded more than one million citations!
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