A Propos The Satan Pit

[poliphilo]

Things with horns don't scare me.

Comes of being a pagan, I think.

The freaking out at horns is a  Christian thing; a bit parochial.

Before Christianity came along horns were  a symbol of divinity. Osiris has horns, so does Isis, so does Hermes, so does Diana, so does Pan and so on and on and on....

Horns of beasts, horns of the moon.

I guess the Christians gave the devil horns (a) because they associated him with the old gods and (b) because they were iffy about Nature.

So Satan- he's just Pan with a  makeover- and Pan is cool.

Just saying...

Comments

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Jon Pertwee's Doctor makes this very point in The Daemons, my and his favourite Who story ever. (Horns are associated with power because of a race of horned aliens who come and poke their noses in our affairs every so often.)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Is that the one with the animated gargoyle running about the churchyard? Cool!