Wandrail
I'm your Huckleberry
@Mal: Well...that's not necessarily true...Satan is originally a judaic idea (though not solely) and the semites as a people go waaay back into the murky areas of prehistory, where Abraham lived among the Sumerians/Chaldeans. They are one of the oldest historically recorded people, so its hard to say they stole anything from anyone, not to mention their beliefs about origins and cataclysms are echoed in most other ancient cultures as well. As far as being like Cernunnos the 'horned one' who was not part goat but usually depicted by the Celts as being horned with antlers - Christians don't really think that the devil is some part goat monster with red skin walking around a volcanic wasteland. He is described as 'the most beautiful of angels' his name means 'the bringer of light' and he is also referred to as the 'lord of the air', and none of that matters in a corporeal sense in the modern world anyway, because metaphysics are nothing we will ever understand or be privy to, and the actual struggles take place within ourselves - I should know, I am of the aforementioned faith.