DeMille was, however, adept at directing " thousands of extras ", and many of his pictures included spectacular set pieces, such as the parting of the Red Sea in both versions of The Ten Commandments, the toppling of the pagan temple in Samson and Delilah, train wrecks in The Road to Yesterday, Union Pacific and The Greatest Show on Earth, and the destruction of a zeppelin in Madame Satan.

Deicide has been banned from playing in several venues ( such as Valparaiso, Chile over a promotional poster featuring Jesus Christ with a bullet hole in his forehead ) and with various festivals such as Hellfest, after several graves had been spray-painted with " When Satan Rules His World ", which is a song from Deicide's 1995 album Once Upon the Cross.

More recently, their music video for " Homage for Satan ", which features blood-splattered zombies on a rampaging mission to capture a priest, was banned from UK music TV channel Scuzz.

The original dry-compounded powder used in fifteenth century Europe was known as " Serpentine ", either a reference to Satan or to a common artillery piece that used it.

Justin Martyr, in the early 2nd century, mentions the " memoirs of the apostles ", which Christians called " gospels " and which were regarded as on par with the Old Testament, which was written in narrative form where " in the biblical story God is the protagonist, Satan ( or evil people / powers ) are the antagonists, and God ’ s people are the agonists ".

Christian tradition, influenced by this presentation, came to use the Latin word for " morning star ", lucifer, as a proper name (" Lucifer ") for Satan as he was before his fall.

As a result, " Lucifer has become a by-word for Satan in the Church and in popular literature ", as in Dante Alighieri's Inferno and John Milton's Paradise Lost.

This development has been decried not only by adherents of the King James Only movement, but also by others, who hold that the King James Version is correct and that Isaiah 14: 12 refers to Satan under the name of " Lucifer ", or who hold that the reference to Satan is preeminent.

Even in the New Testament itself, Sigve K Tonstad argues, the War in Heaven theme of, in which the dragon " who is called the devil and Satan … was thrown down to the earth ", derives from the passage in Isaiah 14.

But some time later, the metaphor of the morning star that Isaiah 14: 12 applied to a king of Babylon gave rise to the general use of the Latin word for " morning star ", capitalized, as the original name of the Devil before his fall from grace, linking Isaiah 14: 12 with (" I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven ") and interpreting the passage in Isaiah as an allegory of Satan's fall from heaven.

Satan ( Hebrew: ה ַ ש ָּׂ ט ָ ן ha-Satan ), " the opposer ", is the title of various entities, both human and divine, who challenge the faith of humans in the Hebrew Bible.

* The most common English synonym for " Satan " is " Devil ", which descends from Middle English devel, from Old English dēofol, that in turn represents an early Germanic borrowing of Latin diabolus ( also the source of " diabolical ").

Ultimately, Satan is thrown into the " Lake of fire ", not as ruler, but as one among many, being tormented day and night forever and ever.

Furthermore, Fett " is cool because he was designed to be cool ", presenting a " wicked ambiguity " akin to John Milton's portrayal of Satan in Paradise Lost and Iago in William Shakespeare's Othello.

# Satan represents man as just another animal, sometimes better, more often worse than those that walk on all-fours, who, because of his " divine spiritual and intellectual development ", has become the most vicious animal of all.

Jack White played marimba on " The Nurse ", a song on The White Stripes ' album Get Behind Me Satan.

Music Week described it as an " inspired collection of leftfield rock ", while Thor Christensen of The Dallas Morning News said that it " brims with the same dry humor the Sacramento band displayed in past hits such as ' The Distance ' and ' Rock and Roll Lifestyle ': The leadoff track, ' Satan Is My Motor ,' puts a devilish new spin on the rock ' n ' roll car-song tradition, while ' When You Sleep ' revolves around the question of what your fingers do while the rest of the body snoozes ".

The only other case technically won by Hutz was in " Treehouse of Horror IV ", where he represents Homer against Satan ( represented as Ned Flanders ).

In " Rise of the Cybermen ", the Tenth Doctor mentions that while the Time Lords were around, travel between alternative realities was easier, but with their demise, the paths between worlds were closed, and In " The Satan Pit ", he states that his people " practically invented black holes.

In " The Satan Pit ", the Doctor states that his race " practically invented black holes.

Subsequently the Beatles experimented with a more complex, psychedelic style of music and anti-establishment lyrics, while The Rolling Stones sang " Sympathy for the Devil ", a song openly written from the point of view of Satan.

From then on, Satan and Satanism started to gain a new meaning outside of Christianity.

From this time on, successful struggles with Satan, demons, and all manner of evil spirits were daily occurrences with Besht. The true meaning of the story is that even the wolf /( Satan ) had a spark of the Divine that was in a shell.

It was even the greatest part of the mission and Christ ’ s intention while incarnated as Jesus to pray for Ardor ( Satan, Christ's spiritual brother formerly known as Lucifer, which means bearer of the Light-Ardor has similar meaning but with more of the connotation of what not to do ), for his repentance in love even up to the time of Satan ’ s great torture upon him in the desert, known in a distorted version from the Bible as the temptation in the wilderness.

The latter meaning is considered to be a place where the glory of God is completely absent, although it is not necessarily the place where Satan and his angels reside.

Most modern Eastern Orthodox icons are very close to their predecessors of a thousand years ago, though development, and some shifts in meaning, have occurred-for example the old man wearing a fleece in conversation with Saint Joseph usually seen in Orthodox Nativities seems to have begun as one of the shepherds, or the prophet Isaiah, but is now usually understood as the " Tempter " ( Satan ).

" In between his drag performances, his days as a hustler and his convictions of murder, his image as the legendary cabaret performance artist Madame Satã meaning Madam Satan having been influenced by the 1930s film by Cecil B. DeMille about a woman disguising herself as a notorious temptress to win back her errant husband.

** Genesis 3: 1 as erum, meaning " cunning ", referring to the serpent or Satan ( See note below ).

Moreover, " The Satan Pit " had an audience share of 35 %, meaning that its overall share has remained static and it was the third most watched programme of the day, after the England vs. Paraguay game and Casualty.

The " sons of God " and Satan ( literally " the Adversary ") present themselves to God, and God asks Satan his opinion on Job.

The segue " Die Eier von Satan " ( which literally translates to the " eggs of Satan ", but " eggs " bear the connotation of testicles in German, like " balls " in English ) from the 1996 Tool album Ænima has as its lyrical component a recipe in German that includes the ingredient " a knife-tip of Turkish hashish ".

According to the LDS Church, the vision teaches that God the Father and Jesus Christ are separate beings with glorified bodies of flesh and bone ; that mankind was literally created in the image of God ; that Satan is real but God infinitely greater ; that God hears and answers prayer ; that no other contemporary church had the fullness of Christ's gospel ; and that revelation has not ceased.

One of their number is " the Satan ", literally " the accuser ", who travels over the earth much like a Persian imperial spy, ( Job dates from the period of the Persian empire ), reporting on, and testing, the loyalty of men to God.

Its magazine has been criticised for having attitude of wilful ignorance, bigotry & intentional misinterpretations of Hinduism, after an issue said about Hindus as " The Indian sub-continent with one billion people, is a living example of what happens when Satan rules the entire culture ... India is one vast purgatory in which millions of people .... are literally living a cosmic lie!

* 1 Chronicles 21: 1, " Satan stood up against Israel " ( KJV ) or " And there standeth up an adversary against Israel " ( Young's Literal Translation )

Satan in Hebrew means ' adversary ' or ' opposer '; one who questions.

The myth recounting the predations and defeat of this supernatural adversary figure, of which the most familiar is Satan, has Canaanite origins ; it appears in two very fragmentary cuneiform texts: one is in Old Babylonian ; the other, much later, in Assyrian, was discovered in the library of Ashurbanipal ( CT 13. 33, 34 ).

An alsatian dog, referred to as Satan, is his adversary.

Although Mephistopheles appears to Faustus as a devil — a worker for Satan — critics claim that he does not search for men to corrupt but comes to serve and ultimately collect the souls of those who are already damned.

In the Garden of Gethsemane scene at the beginning of the movie, Satan appears and attempts to distract Jesus while he is praying.

* Urdu: " Shaitan ka naam liya or Shaitaan hazir ", which translates to " take the name of Satan and Satan appears.

" Satanas " as a name for Satan appears in some examples of Latin texts popularly associated with satanism and witchcraft, such as the middle age pact with the Devil supposedly written by Urbain Grandier.

His actions and name indicate he is the Satan, the ' Adversary ', but much more the Satan who appears in the book of Job with a function to fulfill under God than the Satan of later tradition who is the uttermost enemy of God.

This tradition appears in numerous older sources, including the Kitab al-Magall, the Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan, the Cave of Treasures, and the writings of Patriarch Eutychius of Alexandria.

Social Darwinism is particularly noticeable in The Book of Satan, where LaVey uses portions of Redbeard's Might is Right, though it also appears throughout in references to man's inherent strength and instinct for self-preservation.

One day, a handsome teenage boy named Satan appears in the village.

A scene about this story also appears in the 1985 claymation film The Adventures of Mark Twain, where Satan gets Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher to construct small clay people to bring to life and live in a small kingdom together before Satan destroys them through fighting, plagues and natural disasters, depicting the futility of mankind.

In this version, Satan appears playful and friendly when he constructs the small kingdom, slowly revealing himself as cruel and hateful as he destroys it.

Errores Haereticorum, a medieval tract, claims that the Cathars took their name " from the term cat, whose posterior they kiss, in whose form Satan appears to them.

At school Squee meets a dog who appears to want to be his friend, but Squee realizes that terrible things happen to anyone around him and so attempts to keep the dog away ( Soon after that, the dog was hit by a car ) After school Squee is invited to dinner at Pepito's house where he meets his Pepito's father, Satan ( otherwise known as Señor Diablo who also appeared in issue 6 of JTHM ) who attempts to recruit him to his Soulless Army of Darkness.

The same phrase appears in the song " A Daisy Chain 4 Satan " by My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult.

Lucifer ( that is, Satan ) often appears in the strip to delegate hellish punishments, such as watching reality shows.

As the 24 years are over, " Satan, chief of devils " appears and announces Faust's death for the coming night.

The doctrine that Eve mated with the serpent, or with Satan, to produce Cain also appears in early Gnostic writings such as the Gospel of Philip ( c. 350 ); however, this teaching was explicitly rejected as heresy by Irenaeus ( c. 180 ) and later mainstream Christian theologians.

The entire town bets on Jesus to win the fight, but begin to lose faith when Satan appears for the weigh-in.

He is sentenced to death for his activities, including the bewitching of Redferne's bride-to-be, but before the execution Satan appears and propels the Warlock forward in time to 20th century Los Angeles, California.

The name ' Shaitan ', which directly corresponds with " Satan " in English, appears more often in the Qur ' an, ' Iblis ' occurring 11 times, whereas ' Shaitan ' appears in 87 passages.