Devil, is a shortened form of De' meaning a diety, or god, of something. Evil is an action of destruction, hatred, ill-intent etc...thus we have De' Evil. The god of evil. Satan is translated as "The Father of the lie". Now, we might want to take into account some cultural things in ancient history. Satan may have been a person that some did not like, (he had enemies). And as enemies have a tendancy to do, they use your name in disparaging ways, as in calling you a liar, and a man slayer. He may have been exactly that, and no spirit being at all, just a very bad man, and gained over time much power in a very pre-historic world. He may have wared, and caused complete distruction in his time.
In some very ancient folklore, the really big bad hauncho was named Calligra, and his first leutinent was Satan.
There's also a very secretive religion in the middle east whose symbol is the snake, and the religion is called SHATAN. I'd say that name resembles Satan very closely, and it comes from the same area that was once known as the garden of Eden, now known as Iraq. HMMMM Very little is known about this religion, due to it's extreme secrecy. Interesting.
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