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The witch embodied the wild untamed spirit of nature, the fire and the wind and the fury and the dark endless void.
The Priest embodied order, rigor, discipline, salvation, and the road to bliss through self sacrifice.
Together, they clashed
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Lucifer/ Satan
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Not merely chaos, but a force that sought in a rational—and dangerous—way to break everything down to its most basic forms.
Brandon Sanderson • The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn
He was the powerful, all-but-immortal Incarnation standing tall after a harsh battle. He was the menace, looming over a weary swordsman who kept his blade raised in futile defiance. He was the uncaring master, carelessly discarding minions by the score, their bodies strewn all over the street. He was the traitor who had beaten Simon bloody for
... See moreWill Wight • City of Light (The Traveler's Gate Trilogy Book 3)
the head of a black demon, who represents the extreme of eternalism.
Judith Simmer-Brown • Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism
Her demon was a flat, eel-like snake with the jaw and beady eyes of a weasel and the matted coat of a mangy rat. It was a sleekit thing on a chain leash that shook her and dragged her towards things that she ought to be walking away from. It was greedy and it was cunning. It could lie dormant, wait for the children to leave for school, to kiss
... See moreDouglas Stuart • Young Mungo: The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller
Hekate is a threefold masked infernal goddess highest connected with the feminine energies of man, and necromancy.
Michael W Ford • Hecate & The Black Arts: Liber Necromantia
Viewed cross-culturally, the traditional views support the existence of what we might call a “Lucifer complex” that threatens to seduce and possess the human ego consciousness. In some cultures, this toxic alien presence is conceptualized as demons, in others as idolatry, in others as the power of the temptations of illusion and desire.