Where did the modern western depiction of Satan originate from. Why do we like to imagine him as a red man with horns and goat legs with a pitchfork. And why is it this version of him seems to stick around in pop culture.
>>41700909judaism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horns_of_Moses
A blend of the Zoroastrian figure of Ahriman with the appearance of the Greek trickster god Pan.
Paradise Lost and Dante's Inferno. Although the ideas were probably floating around before that in medieval Christianity. But the modern concept of hell and the devil didn't exist until the bibke was translated into English in the middle ages. Sheol, Hades, Ghenna, and Tartarus were all translated to the same word, hell. This is what created the unified concept of hell, and then Dante's Inferno defined and described it. A simular thing happened with Lucifer, which dose'nt even exist anymore in modern translations, it based on a single line and a single mistranslation. From the single line describing a falling star, Luficer was created. Paradise Lost gave him a backstory that's now canon for most Christians.
