This page groups figures by which religion actually reveres them. Wikipedia notes that "veneration of saints is practiced, formally or informally, by adherents of some branches of all major religions, including Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism and Jainism." Browsing by revered-in lets a visitor find every figure honored within the same religion.
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Overview
What Defines This GroupingMalevolent or hostile spirit-beings as they appear in sacred narrative, kept apart from the ranked ceremonial spirits the atlas catalogues elsewhere. What counts as a demon differs by tradition: a fallen angel in one, a lesser deity displaced by an incoming religion in another, a class of being neither wholly good nor wholly evil in a third. 2 Learn More
The Demons
This group holds demons, malevolent or hostile spirit-beings of sacred narrative, distinct from the ranked ceremonial spirits treated elsewhere in the atlas. Across traditions demons figure as tempters, tormentors and enemies of gods and humans.
The browser will find the demon figures the atlas classes here as characters. The entries describe each within its tradition, noting how conceptions of the demonic differ from one religion to another.
Revered In
Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Encyclopedia of Religion
Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005on demonology across traditionsView the Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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