Asklepios was the Greek god of medicine. His symbol was a rod with a snake entwined around it (Rod/Staff of Asklepios). Hermes' symbol was a staff with 2 snakes entwined around it and sometimes with a pair of wings at the top of the staff (caduceus). From Wikipedia's "Caduceus" page, "Some accounts suggest that the oldest known imagery of the caduceus has its roots in a Mesopotamian origin with the Sumerian god Ningishzida; whose symbol, a staff with two snakes intertwined around it, dates back to 4000 B.C. to 3000 B.C.[4]".
I don't know! While various non-Judeo-Christian mythologies did have a Jesus and Satan-type figure, I don't think most of them put that savior and destroyer on the same level of those two. That is, how Christians view Jesus and how they view Satan as being the respective ultimate good and ultimate evil!
Thanks! I always mess up with the names from Greek gods cause roman-greek religion mix up with them XD ? I don't believe so, Mesopotamian regilion didn't had a devil and Marduk was a god of vegetation, water and magic if I am not wrong I believe that the first representation of a "Devil/Satan" like things comes from Zoroastrianism with Angra Mainyu and Dahaka
He's so sexy that he made a bastard while celebrating his birthday in Japan. Over time, he just gets worse with age.
Amazing thread about Satan. I felt like I learned a little something on @̶T̶o̶n̶y̶'̶s̶ ̶o̶r̶i̶g̶i̶n̶s̶ ̶*cough* I mean, @Satan's origins.
thinking about Satan and stuffs, I bet only spiritual people could answer this... reminding back your words : He was said to have been unbelievably beautiful when he was an angel, Sounds like stories of Medusa, a beautiful woman who was sexually harass(some says rape) by Poseidon in a holy temple and prayed to God to turn her into a hideous monster...she had living snakes on her head and half body of a snake (yet she was still beautiful)...she used this power to revenge on every men.... poor Medusa..