r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Dexter_Naman • 1d ago

Rare Devil Sunrise appears in multiple countries across earth

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u/WrongColorCollar 1d ago

MAN I bet some older cultures didn't take this kinda thing well.

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u/lionseatcake 1d ago

Isn't the devil a semi modern invention?

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u/LiesArentFunny 1d ago

Not really... Here's a 13th century manuscript (see picture on the right)...

Also consider like... Hades.

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u/_Resnad_ 1d ago

Yeah the devil is normally a personification of death/evil

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u/Beef_Jones 1d ago

Hades is only considered a villain by modern depictions of Classical mythology. He wasn’t an evil or even necessarily cruel figure in the period. It’s only the underworld associations with the devil in modern society that we understand him as a devilish figure.

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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth 1d ago

The 13th century is semi-modern relative to when the Bible was written and certainly relative to the time period it covers.

Their point was more that the devil, as that concept exists in cultures of Judeo-Christian origin today (red-skinned, beaded dude with horns, tail and cloven hooves, etc.), didn't exist in the Bible and earlier. It's more recent than that.

(And the whole devil-with-horns thing is a lot more recent than that.)

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u/LiesArentFunny 22h ago

(And the whole devil-with-horns thing is a lot more recent than that.)

I guess you didn't click through the link to the 13th century picture of the devil with horns...