Question #1306: Was Beelzebub Worshipped More Than Satan?

[AskSatanOperator]

I ask this because in Indo European pantheons, most of the time the thundered is the chief God. Odin, Enki, Shiva, are exceptions. But where is Satan among Greece, Rome, Celts. etc? Obviously these people worshipped Satan, but he is not immediately identifiable for some reason, was he not the chief? Or was he removed from history by Christians.

 

[Shadowmage]

Each area had a different patron god or main god because it had a different purpose and objective. Egypt for example didn't even have either Satan or Beelzebub, but Ra who is the Goetic Demon Amon. This only has to do with their specific cultures, not which god is most powerful or not.

But where is Satan among Greece, Rome, Celts. etc?

Poseidon/Neptune in the Greco-Roman pantheon is Satan. I don't know about the Celtic tradition as I'm not familiar with it.

 

[Karnonnos [TG]]

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[bsod]

Satan states in the Al-Jilwah that he appoints other deities to rule in his place.

Every age has its own manager, who directs affairs according to my decrees. This office is changeable from generation to generation, that the ruler of this world and his chiefs may discharge the duties of their respective offices every one in his own turn.

Moreover, I give counsel to the skilled directors, for I have appointed them for periods that are known to me.

Furthermore, as mentioned above, in Pagan times, different human settlements, different villages and towns, had appointed different patron Gods to guide and protect them. Overtime as populations grew and expanded, often times entire nations would have a single patron deity become the "Chief God". Not all cultures had the same Chief God, and they did not literally view them as a God above Gods, it was simply a patron deity (though our deities do have a hierarchy, it is irrelevant to that). Also Satan is everpresent in all cultures and he was not less important, more likely the Christians who recorded the beliefs of these Pagan people simply did not properly grasp the aforementioned concepts.

Satan is very busy, he has an interstellar empire to manage, it only makes sense that he appoints other deities in his place.