PBS Short Doc on Metal + Satanism (Video Review)

[scsheavy]

HOW ACCURATE? WAS ANYTHING MISSED?

 

[SeventhFear]

Just a few thing's 1) the inverted cross is nothing to do with the Satanism. It is infact a symbol of faith, a monk wanted to be crucified but didn't feel worthy of being crucified the same as jesus so he was crucified inverted.
2) the correct name for "the devil" is Luciffer Morning Star he doesn't corrupt sould he only punishes those who were evil on arth.
3) Most of what you hear about diabolism was made up by the chirch/the spanish inquisition and Hammer House of Horrors movies.
4) in Austria they believe the devil is an anoying little creature who plays trick and they laugh at him.
5) the sign is nothing to do with evil it is an old italian myth used to avoid the evil eye/ someone giving you an agressive look.

Have fun

 

[luciferian]

You mentioned the lyric “Our gods became your Satan and Satan became our god,” which seems to explain how black metal united the ancient pagan, hermetic, and cultural beliefs under one flag (Satanism, at least in imagery). Although these ancient beliefs were more associated with “earthly pleasures,” as you say, do you think there is more to it than that, like that these ancient religions were less moralistic and saw Earth and the Heavens as more continuous, as we see in the writings of Tolkien?

In a way yes. They were more practical and simple because they were born and made for the folk, the people. Mostly higher levels of initiation and the deeper search for wisdom and evolution came much later and were reserved only for the few…though ancient Greek and ancient Egyptian mysteries contained a higher level of knowledge and communion with the divine or the daemonic than the simple animistic practices, which were preserved through the ages…

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The "devil" is just the old pagan gods.

The Greek poet Hesiod related two principal legends concerning Prometheus. The first is that Zeus, the chief god, who had been tricked by Prometheus into accepting the bones and fat of sacrifice instead of the meat, hid fire from mortals. Prometheus, however, stole it and returned it to Earth once again. As the price of fire, and as punishment for humankind in general, Zeus created the woman Pandora and sent her down to Epimetheus (Hindsight), who, though warned by Prometheus, married her. Pandora took the great lid off the jar she carried, and evils, hard work, and disease flew out to plague humanity. Hope alone remained within.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Prometheus-Greek-god