* 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 ( Persian شيطان بزرگ Shaytân-e Bozorg ) is a derogatory epithet for the United States of America in some Iranian foreign policy statements.

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

* 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

He furthermore warned that " the transfer of Cuba to Great Britain would be an event unpropitious to the interest of this Union.

), a Perseus, a satyr — Marsyas — admiring the flute and Minerva ( Athena ), a Hercules, which was taken to the shrine dedicated by Pompey the Great at the Circus Maximus, Discobolus ( the discus thrower ), and an Apollo for Ephesus, " which Antony the triumvir took from the Ephesians, but the deified Augustus restored it again after being warned in a dream ".

When Guyuk began moving west, Sorghaghtani Beki, the widow of Tolui, warned Batu that he was actually the Great Khan's target.

The cover story of the June 6, 2005 issue warned that the second Great Depression was " just weeks away.

Sihanouk writes that in 1975 he, Khieu Samphan, and Khieu Thirith went to visit Zhou Enlai, who was gravely ill. Zhou warned them not to attempt to achieve communism in a single step, as China had attempted in the late 1950s with the Great Leap Forward.

They initially praised the Bolsheviks, for pulling Russia out of the Great War, but warned that, given the development of political consciousness in the largely ill-educated peasant based society, it could not be a socialist revolution: " the franchise presents to the workers the way to their emancipation.

Mormons maintain that this apostasy was prophesied of within the Bible ( see and Great Apostasy ), which prophecy warned that an apostasy would occur prior to the second coming and was therefore in keeping with God's plan for mankind.

Internationally celebrated limnologist Dr. David Schindler, notable for research at the Experimental Lakes Area which led to the banning of harmful phosphates in detergents, warned about algal blooms and dead zones, " The fish-killing blooms that devastated the Great Lakes in the 1960s and 1970s haven't gone away ; they've moved west into an arid world in which people, industry, and agriculture are increasingly taxing the quality of what little freshwater there is to be had here .... This isn't just a prairie problem.

The Great Spirit warned Reelfoot that if he attempted to kidnap the maiden, his village and his people would be destroyed.

While the group is one of the most well-known mainstream environmental groups of the country, it has also come under criticism, such as in 2010 when Prime Minister John Key accused them of engaging in " predictable scaremongering " when the group warned that a yet unreleased government report proposed to allow mining in 7000ha of high-value conservation land in Paparoa National Park, Great Barrier Island and the Coromandel Peninsula.

Esen Buqa warned Öz Beg that the Great Khan would overthrow him from the throne of the Horde and install another Khan from the Jochids instead.

Before the Great War, Maxse argued against liberal idealism in foreign policy, Cobdenite pacifism, Radical cosmopolitanism and constantly warned of the German menace.

Gregory the Great received the legates bearing the synodal letters which announced his consecration, partly from a desire not to disturb the peace of the church, and partly from the personal respect which he entertained for Cyriac ; but in his reply he warned him against the sin of causing divisions in the church, clearly alluding to the use of the term oecumenical bishop ( Gregory, Ep.

The statement denounced the British military presence in Northern Ireland as an " invasion of our rights " and warned that they will be targeted in " a resumption of hostilities between the Irish Republic and Great Britain ".

While Polo's book describes paper money and the burning of coal, it fails to mention the Great Wall of China, chopsticks, and footbinding, making skeptics wonder if Marco Polo had really gone to China, or wrote his book based on hearsay.

Central Thessaloniki burning during the Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917 | Great Fire of 1917.

: a burning Brittany too Great for sea alone

The Cross is referred to in Daniel Defoe's a " Tour through the whole island of Great Britain ", where he reports on the Great Fire of Northampton in 1675, "... a townsman being at Queen's Cross upon a hill on the south side of the town, about two miles off, saw the fire at one end of the town then newly begun, and that before he could get to the town it was burning at the remotest end, opposite where he first saw it.

And, Admiral Thomas J. Ryan was awarded the medal for saving a woman from the burning Grand Hotel in Yokohama, Japan, following the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake.

Many engagements proved to be bloody but indecisive, including the Battle of Lundy's Lane near Niagara Falls, Ontario, the burning of both York ( Toronto ) and Washington, and in numerous naval engagements on the Great Lakes.

On 28 April 1653 the Great Fire of Marlborough started in a tanner's yard and spread quickly eventually after four hours burning the Guildhall, St Mary ’ s Church the County Armoury, and two hundred and forty four houses to the ground.

The other notable structure is the Ivan the Great Bell Tower on the north-east corner of the square, which is said to mark the exact centre of Moscow and resemble a burning candle.

This refers to the burning cross on his forehead, a mark of God that gives the Great Mogul his power to destroy evil spirits, such as the Bleeding Nun.

All gas equipment in Great Britain ( but not Northern Ireland ) was converted ( by the fitting of different-sized burner jets to give the correct gas / air mixture ) from burning town gas to burn natural gas ( mainly methane ) over the period from 1967 to 1977 at a cost of about £ 100 million including the writing off of redundant town gas manufacturing plants.

This skilfully and persuasively argued work interprets the Revolution through a Marxist lens: first there is the " aristocratic revolution " of the Assembly of Notables and the Paris Parlement in 1788 ; then the " bourgeois revolution " of the Third Estate ; the " popular revolution ", symbolised by the fall of the Bastille ; and the " peasant revolution ", represented by the " Great Fear " in the provinces and the burning of châteaux.

Coifi mounted a stallion and rode from the king's council ( which according to local tradition was held at the royal summer encampment at Londsborough ), to the Great temple of Woden at Goodmanham where he cast a spear into the altar before burning the temple to the ground, as the people watched and thought him mad.

Palmer and Bell are notable for observing in Great Britain ( Bell's country of origin ) and helping introduce to the United States railroads, the practices of burning coal ( rather than wood ) and the use of narrow gauge railroading.

The decree led to another great burning of Bibles in 1546 — Tyndale, Coverdale, Matthew — all but the Great Bible.

Despite his admiration for Cyrus the Great, and his attempts at renovation of his tomb, Alexander would eventually ransack Persepolis, the opulent city that Cyrus had helped build, and order its burning in 330 B. C.

He surveys the translatio stultitia: the Great Wall of China and the emperor burning all learned books, Egypt and Omar I burning the books in the Ptlomaean library.

During the Great Plague of 1665, the City authorities ordered fires to be kept burning night and day, in the hope that the air would be cleansed.

As a somewhat neutral observer on the Zexen-Grassland conflict, Geddoe and his band see several of the more provocative moments, such as the inexplicable attack by the Zexens on the Great Hollow, the assassination of the Lizard clan chief, and the burning of Karaya village by the Zexens.

Most of the victims could be counted in Cilicia, as well as the Eastern zone, and without ignoring Smyrna ( İzmir ) during what was reported as massacres and what followed with the burning of the Armenian and Greek quarters of the city ( see Great Fire of Smyrna ).

The Council realized that they had not escaped the effects of the Great White completely unscathed, and began burning any humans or animals born with deformities.

As can be seen in contemporary Nazi newsreels, part of a documentation campaign to create the image that the Holocaust in the Baltics was a local, and not Nazi-directed activity, the Arajs Kommando figured prominently in the burning of Riga's Great ( Choral ) Synagogue on 4 July 1941.