Did Prometheus become Satan?

Question

The ancient story of Prometheus seems a close parallel to the account of Satan in the bible. Although Satan is ascribed evil intent the result is the same. Knowledge/fire is brought to manand the bringer is cast down and punished eternally. Even the name Lucifer means 'light bringer'.was this motif simply borrowed, like other parts of the Old Testament seem to be, from other, older stories and myths?

Answer 1

Lucifer was the Roman god of the dawn-star. The Greeks called him Phosphorus. The dawn-star is the one we call "Venus." In myth the god of the dawn-star was an attendant of the goddess.

The Greeks and Romans borrowed this from the ancient Syrians, neighbours of the Israelites. In their mythology the Dawn-Star was the consort of Ashtarte, the goddess of war and love. Both were demonized by the Israelites as evil pagan gods.

Prometheus is never connected with the star or its god Phosphorus or Lucifer.

Actually the closest thing to Satan in Greek mythology is Ate, the goddess of delusion. In the Iliad of Homer, the Heavenly King becomes enraged at her wicked deceptions and catching her by the hair throws her out of heaven. She lands upon the earth where she remains to torment mankind. Essentially the same thing happens to Satan, formerly a spirit of heaven, he is cast out to delude mankind.
http://www.theoi.com/Daimon/Ate.html

Answer 2

There are a few Greek myths--the Prometheus myth, the Daedulus myth, and the myth about the boy Phaeton, who stole his dad's (the sun god) chariot-- and flew too high to the sun . I find them all fascinating. They may THINLY have been related to (or are in the same category of mythological story subtypes) related to the story of the fall of Lucifer from heaven. The moral of these stories is that pride and overreaching ambition results in disastrous tragedy.

Some of these myths may be related to stories about the morning star. Phaeton has been associated with the morning star. Another name for the star is "Lucifer," but this originally was not a reference to a demon but to the goddess Venus. The ancients wondered why the morning star was so bright in the morning but couldn't be seen among the planets at night. They created myths about the star being fallen or ousted from the other lights of the sky because of some character flaw. Remember in the myth of Lucifer, Lucifer was a very important archangel who was jealously in love with God such that he refused to serve humankind. He got very rebellious about it and had a fall from grace because of it. (Gee, do you think people ever really contemplate the meaning of that myth instead of mystifying it? It's rather transparent, isn't it.)

Answer 3

No. Satan isn't a titan, didn't steal fire from God, and isn't chained to a rock being eaten by an eagle.



wisepagan:

Actually, the idea that all Christian holiday traditions are leftovers from the pagan days of yore is an old myth that has been debunked several times over. See here,

http://usminc.org/holidaze.html

Answer 4

Quite the opposite... I notice more similarities to him and Jesus...

Prometheus stole fire from the Gods (and was half God himself) and gave it to the people so they could see at night and cook their food.
This is a metaphor for the son of a God who comes to earth to bring peace and enlightenment to the people.

Both figures were sacrificed for doing a good thing.

You have to keep in mind, that it was Christians who brought the idea of Satan to the world... other religions had no concept of it.
They even modeled their images of Satan and Witches after very good role models from pagan religions... like "The Horned One" and "The 3 Fates". It was the biggest form of Propaganda we have ever seen...

Every Christian Holiday has elements of Pagan worship in it... like the Easter Egg and The Christmas Tree... these are pagan rituals first that have been hijacked and turned around by Christianity.

Answer 5

i hate to tell you but the greeks were talking about prometheus before christianity was this wacky little cult that nobody thought would make it. so the Morning star( satan) hadnt been thought of yet the christians probably stole some of the centrals myths about promethus to incorporate into an evil figure, but most of thier descriptions of satan came from the Pagan god Pan

Answer 6

Some myths seam to be universal, like the flood and dragons.

Answer 7

you're making some incredibly stable factors and to respond to your question approximately why he rebelled theres a e book suggested as paradise misplaced its approximately how devil fell from grace and the warfare in heaven that have been given him thrown out of heaven and how he have been given thrown in and rose to potential in hell wish this permits

Answer 8

probably a very strong


but the name Lucipher comes from the scripture describing babylonian kings and has often been confused.

but the ideas are pretty much identical

kudos