Seven Demon Kings of Hell, Seven Deadly Sins on Earth

Do you know what are the seven demons that represent the seven deadly sins of the world in Western mythology?

What are the seven deadly sins?

Seven deadly sins, there are seven sources of sin. The seven deadly sins described in Dante's "Divine Comedy" are:

1. Arrogance (Latin: superbia, English: Pride): The most serious sin, including disrespect for God and cruelty to others.

2. Gluttony (Latin: gula, English: Gluttony): waste food and addicted to pleasure. In a narrow sense, it is believed that "gluttony" is equivalent to wasting food. In a broad sense, it means "indulging" in something, such as hoarding unnecessary items, indulging in gambling and entertainment without being enterprising, drinking, and drug abuse, etc.

3. Lust (Latin: luxuria, English: Lust): Indulge your own desires, pay attention to physical satisfaction, and ignore spiritual communication. Refers to excessively strong and unethical desires. The desire for sex and the pursuit of stimulation are the most extreme crimes of lust.

4. Greed (Latin: avaritia, English: Greed): Hope to possess more things than you need. Especially refers to the excessive pursuit of money or power.

5. Laziness (Latin: acedia, English: Sloth): escape from reality, lack of responsibility and waste of time. Laziness is declared guilty because: Others need to work harder to fill in the gaps and that what they should do is not done well, which will harm themselves without any benefit.

6. Furious (Latin: ira, English: Wrath): hate others. Arouse unreasonable anger and revenge against others. In addition to the powers granted by the law, the exercise of the intention to punish others is also attributed to anger. Discrimination, excessive vigilance, and intention to harm others can also be considered furious.

7. Jealousy (Latin: invidia, English: Envy): Annoy others because the other party has more assets than oneself.

Seven Devils of Hell

In 1589, demonologists began to associate each crime with demons. Demons representing various crimes will lure people with the same crimes.. As the monarch of the demon in hell, Satan has seven demon kings under his command. Let me briefly introduce these seven demons.

1. Pride: Lucifer, the fallen angel,

Lucyfa was originally a six-winged angel in the God Realm. Because of his excessive arrogance of his own identity, he intended to be on an equal footing with God. One day, God brought the Son of the Lord to travel to heaven and asked the angels to kneel down to worship the Lord. Because Lucifer did not want to kneel down to the Son, he led one-third of the angels in heaven to raise an anti-flag flag in the northern part of the God Realm, intending to overthrow God. After three days of melee in the divine realm, Lucifer's rebels were defeated. In the end, the rebels were expelled from heaven and fell to hell. All the rebel angels in hell transform into ugly images, except Lucifer. Lucifer still retains the glorious six-winged image of an angel, and is called "fallen angels" by other angels.

2. Envy: Leviathan, a sea monster that symbolizes the evil

The word "Leviathan" means crack. In the Bible, it is a kind of sea monster that symbolizes evil, usually described as a whale or crocodile. However, there are also saying that its image is a snake with a huge body that can coil the earth. When swimming in the sea, the waves also go against the current. Its mouth was squirting flames, smoke came out of its nose, had sharp teeth, and its body seemed to be wrapped in armor. It has a cold and ruthless personality, violent and easy to kill. It searches for prey in the ocean, making the surrounding creatures change their qualities.

3. Wrath: Samael, the incarnation of anger

Samael is the person of seraph, a serpentine angel carrying six wings. After the fall, Samar held a spear with poisonous bile painted at the tip, and the Hellhound stood beside him.

I believe everyone knows the story of Adam and Eve. Samar is the snake that seduced Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit, causing sin to enter the world and be exiled by God. When Noah's life was about to end, God asked him to take his soul away, and Samar successfully took his soul away. But when God asked Samir to take Moses' soul away, because Moses was protected by God's divine light, Samir could not take his soul away. Later, he was criticized by God and fell. The symbol of anger among the seven deadly sins.

4. Greed: Mammon, the evil god of wealth and greed

Mammon, also known as Amaimon, has the meaning of "rich" and "money" in ancient Syria. In the New Testament, it is referred to as "the incarnation of money", and the adjective used by Jesus to accuse his disciples of greed, is described as an evil god of wealth, tempting people to kill each other for wealth. In Paradise Lost, the angels who were sent to hell were under the command of Mammon in hellThe extremely luxurious and luxurious Palace of Ten Thousand Demons was built in the middle. Mamon used his unique ability to lead the demons to excavate gold and various precious metals in the mountain belly of hell, and then decorated the rooms of the Wanmo Palace with these things. Mamon's paranoid love for treasure had already existed as a divine angel and served God in heaven. At that time, all he cared about was gold, silver and gems, not his "Lord".

5. Gluttony: Beelzebub, the demon king of fly

It was originally the Phoenician god, Baal-Zebul, whose meaning was "the master of heaven". But later it was regarded by the Israelites as the devil that caused the disease and changed it to a synonym for disgust and evil. There are also traces of this demon king in Greek mythology, because Zeus, the father of all gods, is also known as the "Fly avoider". In Paradise Lost, it is portrayed as a thoughtful and majestic sage, second only to Lucifer among the fallen heavens. Another most famous form is the huge flies. Therefore, it is also called "King of Flies".

6. Sloth: Berial, the devil of laziness

The first angel created by God, the angel of divine position, was unwilling to make progress. After Lucifer and other angels fell into hell, they fell into hell with him for no reason and became one of the seven monarchs of hell. Therefore, laziness became his original sin. He was very dangerous and was one of the most powerful fallen angels.

In legend, Belier is the great demon king of hell, the supreme commander of the evil wizard, good at manipulating black fire magic, and the master of the Seventy-Two Demon Pillars. He once signed a contract with King Solomon and borrowed his seventy-Two Demon Pillars to King Solomon, which led to the famous Seventy-Two Demon Gods. After King Solomon's death, he took back the demon pillar and the benefits obtained from his contract with King Solomon were: After King Solomon died, he would dedicate his soul to Belier.

7. Lust: Asmodeus, the ancestor of the devil king of desire.

The representative demon of "lust" among the seven sins. In legend, Asmontis is a monster with human body, snake tail and cock feet, with three heads, one is a fire-breathing human head, one is a sheep head, and the other is a cow head. His mount is a lion with dragon wings and neck, and all these animals represent either lust or revenge. In Judaism, the legend says that he has a human appearance, has two wings, has the ability to transform, and also has the ability to search for treasures. He is good at invisible magic and likes to lure people into alcohol and gambling or trigger their desire to commit crimes. During the European Renaissance, Christians believed that Asmontis was the king of the nine levels of hell, and it is said that he distorted the normal concept of human lust, and those who were seduced by Asmontis and sinned would be locked in the second level of hell forever.