2007-12-13 06:25:39 · 20 answers · asked by Gavbo 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Its the ancient Greek word for spirit. Also spelt daimon.
The ancient Greeks often called their gods, daemones. Here it just means "spirits" or "divine spirits."
A cacodaemon, on the other hand, was an evil spirit which might bring plague, disease, or possess a person or cause some other sort of harm.
The early Christians, who wrote in Greek, used the same word in the Bible. There it means both pagan-god and "demon" -- that is an evil spirit.
The opposite term is Angel is also Greek, Angelos meaning "messenger," or more properly angelos Dios "messenger of God."
2007-12-13 20:30:53 · answer #1 · answered by Thalia 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He`s an as been F1 driver Daemon Hill.
2007-12-14 11:45:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Greek mythology and religion, the term daemon was ubiquitous, referring to supernatural agents or intelligences, lower in rank than a god and holding a middle place between gods and humans, such as the Corybantes, Curetes, Dactyls, Satyrs and Sileni. Spirits of forests, rivers, glades and mountains, as well as cities presided over public and family life and were also referred to as daemons. Daemons could be either good or evil, but even good ones were believed to be capable of evil acts if angered by humans.
Daemons could also be ministering spirits, god like beings, souls of dead persons, or familiars (companion or helping spirits that take on animal forms). Gernerally they were considered by the Greeks to be protective and attending spirits much like guardian angels or Plotinus's notion of tutelary spirits. In addition, gods themselves are invoked as daemons in certain texts.
"Belief in daemons dates to ancient Mesopotamia. The Babylonians had an elaborate daemonolgy, in which daemons were organized in armies and hierarchies, and like angels had specific duties."
~ Georg Luck. Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and RomanWorlds.
2007-12-13 20:21:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well, in the books His Dark Materials a daemon is your soul attached to you in the form of an animal companion.
2007-12-13 14:29:37 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
its an animal that contains your very soul/ also its a evil spirit that comes from the underworld it depends what meaning you have if its from the golden compass then the first if you are talking about black magick the golden dawn and Alister Crowley then its defined as evil as he and a colleague raised a deamon from the underworld and his colleague was put in a mental home for the rest of his life and Alister Crowley became the most evil man on the planet at the time some say ever but he was as dark as it gets with magick especially enochian magick which is the most power full magick you can play around with be warned its not for the faint hearted just read the golden dawn you will see for yourself
2007-12-13 14:42:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
didnt doctor who battle the daemons back in the 70s?
2007-12-13 14:29:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
pronounced demon, it is a type of being from the fictional world of Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy, which the equivlent of a soul, but it has a physical body and is connected to the human it is bound to. So if the daemon feels pain so too does the human. hope that helps (Read that trilogy, its awesome)
2007-12-13 14:49:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In UNIX, a program that runs in the background (not attached to a terminal) is called a "daemon."
2007-12-13 14:30:41 · answer #8 · answered by stanley harry 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a daemon is a spirit holding a middle place between gods and men.
2007-12-13 14:30:36 · answer #9 · answered by Karswell 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Daemon is the ancient spelling of demon. and basically that's all it really is. i like the Daemon spelling better though... looks better
2007-12-13 15:07:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋