The Devil Made Me Do It: How the West Disguised Its Diabolical Switch of Messiah

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Madigan
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
The Devil

‘Sympathy for the Devil?’ The West German Left and the Challenge of Terrorism

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
KARRIN HANSHEW
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
The State ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
The West ◽  
Counter Terrorism ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship ◽  
The Devil

AbstractIn the 1970s, the West German extra-parliamentary Left struggled to respond effectively to left-wing terrorism and the state powers mobilised against it. This article argues that a shared conception of counter-violence as legitimate resistance helps explain the Left's ambivalent relationship to political violence and its solidarity with militants. The mounting strain on the projects and protest networks of student rebels, older leftists, anti-nuclear demonstrators and feminist activists, however, provoked debate and, eventually, change. Caught between terrorism and counter-terrorism, leftists revised assumptions upon which their commitment to resistance had rested – and reconceived resistance itself as part of everyday, mainstream politics.

From Worm to Wyvern

2021 ◽  
pp. 84-136
Author(s):  
Daniel Ogden
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Central Body ◽  
Ninth Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Christian Culture ◽  
Sea Monster ◽  
Classical Culture ◽  
The Devil

How did the classical dragon, essentially just a massive snake in form, a worm, evolve, in early Christian culture, into the very particular fantasy creature we know as a ‘dragon’ today in the West? It is argued that the dragon acquired its animalian head and more bulbous central body from another well-established creature of classical fantasy, the ancient sea-monster (kētos), this by virtue of the fact that, whilst dragon and sea-monster had remained largely distinct creatures in classical culture, they had been confounded by the Septuagint. Its wings, however, and probably too in effect its two legs (the latter placed in the position of the sea-monster’s front flippers), it derived rather from demons and the Devil, the latter being associated with snakes already in the Old Testament, and then spectacularly so in the New Testament’s Revelation. By the ninth century AD these two developments had crystallized in the wyvern-type dragon.

Satanic Pacts/Diabolism

2020 ◽  
pp. 384-426
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Career Advancement ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Causal Mechanism ◽  
The West ◽  
Tit For Tat ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
The Devil

This chapter explores the satanic pact, the voluntary decision to sell one's soul to the devil, which emerged as an important plank in European witch lore in the early modern period. The trope of the satanic pact dates back to the early Middle Ages, and was generally associated with some kind of tit-for-tat: a sinful human would exchange his soul — and in the earliest versions it is usually a man entering such a deal — for money, career advancement, knowledge, power, or sexual favors. The idea of a satanic pact provided early modern demonologists with the causal mechanism they wanted. Fueled by invidious notions about female bodies and minds, demonologists adumbrated ideas about how women were driven by envy, greed, and insatiable lust to turn to demons to satisfy their desires. Legends of male pacts with the devil circulated in Byzantium as well as in the medieval West, and some of these stories crossed over into the Slavic Orthodox world, but they never rose to the fore in trials of witches in Russia as they did in the West. Building on this observation, subsequent scholarship has confirmed that this finding held true both in the Russian and in the Ukrainian lands and continued through the eighteenth century.

scholarly journals Rus Devrimi’nde Gogol

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (23) ◽  
pp. 284-289
Author(s):  
N.A. Berdyaev ◽  
Nesrin Atasoy
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The West ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Dead Souls ◽  
Mother Earth ◽  
The Devil

Gogol is the most mysterious of all Russian writers, and still little has been done for his recognition. He is more mysterious than Dostoevsky, who goes to great lengths to reveal all the contradictions and all the abysses of his soul. In his soul and in his works, it is seen how the devil struggles with God. Gogol, on the other hand, keeps an unsolved secret in himself and takes him to the grave. There's something really scary about it. Gogol is the only Russian writer with a sense of magic, he artistically conveys the action of dark, evil magical forces. He probably gets it from the West, from Catholic Poland. Terrible Revenge was written with such a spell. The same spell is more implicitly found in Dead Souls and Inspector. Gogol feels bad very strongly. He does not find the consolation that Dostoevsky found in the image of Zosima and in the touch of mother earth. He doesn't have those sticky leaves, nowhere can he escape the evil mouths that surround him. Old school Russian critics can hardly feel the eerie nature of Gogol's art.

The Cultural Model of Development: Alternative to Faustian Technology

1980 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-488
Author(s):  
Henryk Skolimowski
Keyword(s):  
Western Society ◽  
The West ◽  
Greek Myth ◽  
Total Destruction ◽  
Models Of Development ◽  
The World ◽  
Western Concept ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Devil ◽  
Choice Of Technology

The paper identifies two types of science, the Promethean and the Faustian, each inspired by a particular myth and sustained by a particular eschatology, which determine both the concept of development and the choice of technology for achieving it. Both Prometheus of the Greek myth (who stole fire from heaven at the cost of terrible personal suffering) and Faust of the mediaeval German legend (who sold his soul to the devil) were in quest of knowledge, but because of their differing views of man's nature and life's goal, for entirely different purposes. To Prometheus knowledge was an instrument of liberation and self-perfection leading to the divine. To Faust knowledge was an instrument of power, untrammelled and absolute, over everyone and everything leading to (as the legend itself has it) self-destruction and eternal perdition. Thanks to a quirk of history (or the unfolding of the inexorable process of history, if you please), the Promethean eschatology lost out to the Faustian eschatology, first in the West and later all over the world. Overwhelming local cultures and traditions, it universalized the Western concept of development and Western technology. The dire cumulative consequence of this process is all too evident – not least in the Western society itself; even the fear of total destruction is no longer too fanciful. The paper therefore pleads for a different concept and different models of development suited to particular cultures.

scholarly journals Slav beliefs on changelings

Balcanica ◽  
2002 ◽  
pp. 143-154
Author(s):  
Ljubinko Radenkovic
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The West ◽  
Folk Beliefs ◽  
The Gift ◽  
South Slavs ◽  
Nursing Woman ◽  
Other World ◽  
The One ◽  
The Devil ◽  
The Demonic

Beliefs and legends that certain mythological creatures - fairies, witches, the devil, (vile, vestice, djavo, boginka, mamuna, baenik, domovoj, leshi) etc. can take away the child from the mother and exchange it for its own in the image of the abducted child, are widespread with the West and East Slavs, while with the South Slavs they are found only in the northern parts, in Pannonia. Such demonic child is most often called: podmece (with the Serbs), podvrsce (with the Croats), podmenek (with the Slovenians), odmienjec (with the Poles), odminok (with the Ukrainians), obmen (with the Russians), etc. According to the folk beliefs, a changeling differs from the other children by its sluggish growth, voraciousness, and persistent desire to harm or spite other members of the household. Slav legends mention the ways of stealing the human and planting the demonic child (a), recognizing the demonic child (b), and disposing of it and restoring the rightful child (c). In order to prevent the demon from exchanging her child, the mother must observe certain rules of conduct during pregnancy and in the 40 days following the childbirth. Certain measures of magical protection are also undertaken, as: placing sharp iron objects near the nursing woman, then brooms, leaving the candle to burn all night, burning frankincense in her presence, sprinkling her with holy water, etc. The legends on changelings were most probably adopted by the Slavs from the neighboring western peoples (Germans), and included in the already present beliefs that the birth of a child is a gift from the other world, and that the mother must take great care of the gift and be grateful for it. Otherwise, the one bestowing the gift may take it away as well.

Das mythologische Bild des Teufels als Pflüger in der slawischen mündlichen Volksliteratur

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ľubomír Gábor
Keyword(s):  
Functional Similarity ◽  
The West ◽  
Text Corpus ◽  
Folk Narrative ◽  
Folk Tales ◽  
Narrative Literature ◽  
The Devil

SummaryIn the presented paper the motive of the devil in the folk narrative literature of the west Slavic regions will be analysed. The text corpus consists of orally handed down folk tales. In these sources the devil is presented as a contradictory demonic creature, who signs an agreement on the division of spheres of power. This agreement will be confirmed with magical ploughing as a cosmogonic act. In the paper will also be submitted a hypothesis about the functional similarity of the folk tales devil with the old Slavic mythological system based on old Indo-European sources. The paper attempts to prove, that the cosmogonic act of the devil in the folk tales could be connected with aspects of the Indo-European first functional duality of the Gods-Sovereigns Mitra-Varuna based on description and analysis of Georges Dumézil.

scholarly journals AN OVERVIEW OF THE POLICIES OF THE WEST, HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE ISLAMIC WORLD

2020 ◽  
pp. 279-288
Author(s):  
Dr. Abdul Khaliq ◽  
Dr. Muhammad Muavia Khan ◽  
Dr Muhammad Sajjad
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Human History ◽  
Human Settlement ◽  
The West ◽  
The World ◽  
Collective Development ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
The Devil

The twentieth century is a century of mind-boggling scientific inventions, unparalleled feats of scientific research and discovery. The rapid development of human civilization and the sciences and arts that have taken place during each decade of this century is even greater than the collective development of the entire period of known human history. But if we look at the pace of political and moral development, the enlightened unipolar world that has reached the threshold of the 21st century still seems to be trapped in the colonial darkness of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Freedom, Equality, Democracy and Basic Human Rights have not been able to eradicate the blackness of the huge offices, the horrors of barbarism, oppression and injustice, aggression and cruelty. Under the weight of oppression, humanity is still wounded by the devil. Scientific inventions have bridged the gap between time and space and given the world the shape of a "human settlement", but alas! Couldn't bridge the gap between human hearts. That is why this "global settlement" is practically no different from a traditional settlement, it also has elders occupying power and resources and there are still losers drowning in the depths of humiliation. Blinded by the arrogance of scientific progress, the world may have subjugated the weak peasants whenever it wanted, but there is no one to stop its oppressive hands. KEY WORDS: The West, America, Islam, Human rights, United nations

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