* Great Controversy ( fundamental belief 8 )— Humanity is involved in a " great controversy " between Jesus Christ and Satan.

* Great Demon King Zenon, a three-headed ( reminiscent of Satan in Dante's Inferno ) leader of the demons in the manga and anime Devilman.

John Milton in his epic poem Paradise Lost of 1667 describes Satan's " Legions, Angel Forms " immediately after the fall from heaven collecting themselves and gathering around their " Great Sultan " ( Satan ).

At this time Iran found itself very isolated, but this was a secondary consideration to the spread of revolutionary ideals across the Persian Gulf and confrontation with the US ( or " Great Satan ") in the hostage crisis.

" I find it interesting that you praise this country in public ," he said, " the one you called Great Satan.

It, along with another song on the album, " The Great Satan ", is also available as a downloadable content song for the 2008 video game Rock Band 2.

Revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini — who had been exiled by the Shah for 15 years — heightened rhetoric against the " Great Satan ", the United States, talking of what he called " evidence of American plotting ".

Revolutionary teams displayed secret documents purportedly taken from the embassy, sometimes painstakingly reconstructed after shredding, to buttress their claim that " the Great Satan " ( the U. S .) was trying to destabilize the new regime, and that Iranian moderates were in league with the U. S. The documents were published in a series of books called Documents from the US Espionage Den ().

Russell's teaching that the Great Pyramid of Giza was built under God's direction was overturned in 1928, when Rutherford asserted that it had been built under the direction of Satan for the purpose of deceiving God's people in the last days.

This book told a system of holy magic through a six-month purification, then after the conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, one would summon the four Great Kings of Hell ( Lucifer, Leviathan, Satan, Belial ), and make them sign an oath.

* Great Satan

* The Great Satan by Kavitha Rao, April 26, 2000

* ' Great Satan ' warned of a burning hell by Ian Black, The Guardian, February 16, 2005

* How the " Great Satan " Became Just Great

In the Great Gospel of John, the narrator, Jesus, explains that he is the creator of the material universe, which was designed both as a confinement of Satan, and so he could take upon himself the condition of a man.

The Pearl of Great Price, one of the scriptures of the LDS church, states that Satan, the great deceiver, sought during premortal life to destroy the agency of man, and that he continues to seek to enslave men, women and children in whatever ways that he can in this world, to " lead them captive at his will.

The paper gained notoriety in 1920 when it ran a series of 17 or 18 articles based on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, text previously published in Russian by Sergei Nilus as the last chapter, Chapter XII, of Velikoe v malom ... ( The Great in the Small: The Coming of the Anti-Christ and the Rule of Satan on Earth ).

* God, Man and Satan: Patterns of Christian Thought and Life in " Paradise Lost ", " Pilgrim's Progress " and the Great Theologians

While Khomeini was strongly anti-American and had demonstrated this sentiment by calling United States " the Great Satan " and taking US embassy workers hostage, he also strongly opposed the Soviet Union and labeled the Communist belief a threat to Islam.

# The Space witch ( part 1 ) ( 魔女グレートサタンの復活 " Majo Great Satan no Fukkatsu ")

" Winrod believed the United States to be the chosen land of God and, when the Great Depression struck, publicly stated that it was the work of Satan.

Delville was a great admirer of Eduard Schuré ’ s The Great Initiates, and it could well be that Satan ’ s Treasures is inspired by an episode from the Initiation of Isis in Schuré ’ s book.

* The English Are the Father of the Great Satan Excerpts from a Friday sermon at Tehran University, Feb. 2005

Traveling through the South -- over 16,000 miles -- with two Great Danes, an Afghan, and a Persian kitten, we've worked up a regular routine for acceptance at motels.

Hazred could come from the Persian or Arabic word " Hazrat " meaning Great Lord with a twist that makes it sound like " red " and " hazard " both indicative of danger.

He was a favorite of Alexander the Great, whom he accompanied in his Persian campaigns, and wrote a third historical work on Alexander.

The Greco-Persian Wars had their roots in the conquest of the Greek cities of Asia Minor, and particular Ionia, by the Achaemenid Persian Empire of Cyrus the Great shortly after 550 BC.

However, in a decision of great historic significance, the Persian king Darius the Great decided that, despite successfully subduing the revolt, there remained the unfinished business of exacting punishment on Athens and Eretria for supporting the revolt.

These people may have assisted the Scythians when King Darius the Great led a Persian invasion into what is now Southern Russia to punish the Scythians for their raids into the Achaemenid Empire.

Persian King Darius I the Great, in an attempt to subdue the Scythian horsemen who roamed across the north of the Black Sea, crossed through the Bosphorus, then marched towards the Danube River.

Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes have been played for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, the Caucasus, around the Persian Gulf and in Northern Africa.

The last events in Chronicles take place in the reign of Cyrus the Great, the Persian king who conquered Babylon in 539 BCE ; this sets an earliest possible date for the book.

Cyrus the Great, the Persian king, conquered Babylon in 539 BCE.

By the time Esther was written, the foreign power visible on the horizon as a future threat to Judah was the Macedonians of Alexander the Great, who defeated the Persian empire about 150 years after the time of the story of Esther ; the Septuagint version noticeably calls Haman a " bully " ( βουγαῖον ) where the Hebrew text describes him as an Agagite.

Authored by Darius the Great sometime between his coronation as king of the Persian Empire in the summer of 522 BC and his death in autumn of 486 BC, the inscription begins with a brief autobiography of Darius, including his ancestry and lineage.

Later in the inscription, Darius provides a lengthy sequence of events following the deaths of Cyrus the Great and Cambyses II in which he fought nineteen battles in a period of one year ( ending in December of 521 BC ) to put down multiple rebellions throughout the Persian Empire.

In his commentary on Daniel 8: 14 published in 1831, he stated that the 2, 300-year period should be calculated from 334 BC, the year Alexander the Great began his conquest of the Persian Empire.

600 BC or 576 BC – 530 BC ) – also known as Cyrus II – the grandson of Cyrus I, an Achaemenid ruler and the founder of the Great Persian Empire

Excepting a few ineffective attempts to revive scythed chariots, and continuing far eastern use, the use of chariots in battle was obsolete in civilized nations by the time of the Persian defeat at the hands of Alexander the Great, but chariots remained in use for ceremonial purposes such as carrying the victorious general in a Roman triumph, or for racing.

Image: BattleofIssus333BC-mosaic-detail1. jpg | Alexander the Great using armoured cavalry, fighting Persian King Darius III

The Persian army of Xerxes I of Persia and later the Macedonian army of Alexander the Great crossed the Dardanelles in opposite directions to invade each other's lands, in 480 BC and 334 BC respectively.

Herodotus records that when heralds of the Persian king Darius the Great demanded " earth and water " ( i. e., symbols of submission ) of various Greek cities, the Athenians threw them into a pit and the Spartans threw them down a well for the purpose of suggesting they would find both earth and water at the bottom, these often being mentioned by the messenger as a threat of siege.

In Persia, from the time of Darius the Great, Persian rulers used the title " King of Kings " ( Shahanshah in modern Iranian ) since they had dominion over peoples from India to Greece.

Afghanistan was inhabited by the Aryan tribes and controlled by the Medes until about 500 BC when Darius the Great ( Darius I ) marched with his Persian army to make it part of the Zoroastrian Achaemenid Empire.

Under Alexander the Great, this force turned east, and in a series of three decisive battles, routed the Persian forces and took their empire, which included Egypt and the Phoenician lands.

Ephesus had been part of the Persian Empire since 547 and was ruled by a satrap, a more distant figure, as the Great King allowed the Ionians considerable autonomy.

Following the fall of Babylon to the Persian king Cyrus the Great, 539 BCE, some Judean exiles returned to Jerusalem, inaugurating the formative period in the development of a distinctive Judahite identity in the Persian province of Yehud.