Just randomly come across your Venus and Lucifer art on the dash and loved it. You have such a beautiful art style.
I’m just curious. I’m drawn to Lucifer as the son of Aurora, the literal Son of Dawn, and that’s how I understand him. Nothing to do with the Christian devil or Christianity or Judaism whatsoever. Literally just like a masculine (or androgynous, take your pick) manifestation of the planetary Venus. He’s more of a light figure to me than a dark one.
Is this the same as the Lucifer you worship or is yours more related to Lucifer as described in the Judaic and Christian scriptures? Just curious! I’ve not met anyone else who worships Lucifer as the son of Aurora from a more Roman polytheism perspective, and while your art made me think of how I view him, I’m curious as to your perspective on how these two figures differ and overlap. From what I understand, ‘Lucifer’ as a name for the figure described in the Bible was a mistranslation thing as the actual figure they were describing was a Babylonian king.
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I'd say my Lucifer is actually an amalgamation of a lot of different Lucifers lmao
I consider Lucifer in many different ways depending on the aspect I'm focusing on.
As an astrological spirit from the skies, I do consider Lucifer to be a prebiblical entity, the son of Dawn, Venus in its masculine aspect. I associate this Lucifer with Eosphoros and Hesperus.
I also highly syncretize Lucifer with Attar and Ishtar (Inanna) in his Venusian aspect. Ishtar and Attar are the primary reasons I still consider the fall to be an intrinsic and accurate aspect of Lucifer's lore.
I consider the Chisto-Judaic interpretation of him to be essentially a mis-telling or dramatized version of his inherent character. The verse in Isaiah was about the king Babylon, but evidently, Babylon is the land of Ishtar and she was his Matron. It was used in the bible because of its cleaver double meaning, a critique on the people and their beliefs.
Attar, Ishtar, and many morning star deities have pre-biblical myths about rising to the heavens and falling to the underworld. This is obviously informed by Venus' actual movements in the sky (so it all loops back together in the end ykwim)
And most notably, across all of these myths Lucifer is always the son of someone, I don't really consider Lucifer as the replacement for the Christian God like an anti-God or Satan figure. Lucifer is always the son of Dawn, or the son of God, and likewise, Ishtar and Attar are the daughter and son of the chief Gods in their pantheons. So, I consider the "favourite and proud fallen son" characteristic to likely be intrinsic. Ceyx son of Eosphoros was transformed for the hubris of calling himself "Zeus". Common themes always pop up eventually.
Demonolatry digs a bit deeper into Lucifer both as a solar light bringer but also as the keeper of forbidden gnosis because of his fall. He rules the underworld so that he can rise into the sky. I personally believe religious folks misinterpreted this deliberate act as a punishment. It is always debated in all of these myths whether the Lucifer is inadequate to rule or refuses to. He is either kicked out of heaven or willfully jumps. I personally believe he jumped. I think the sting of rejection is there, but I also think it was ultimately his will.
Venus is very bright, very beautiful, but it truly does not light up the entire night sky, nor does it bring the day. Venus shines brightest in the dark when the Sun has forsaken us. Lucifer is the God of knowledge, but specifically forbidden knowledge.
I think the morning star truly does fall to earth and make himself known to humanity. The prebiblical texts provide context for why he is as liminal as he is and why he moves the way he does.
But the biblical/judaic/abrahamic texts provide a little context for why he is transgressive and how his energy actually corrupted (or enlightened?) the human mind. If we think of Eden or Heaven symbolically, I consider Lucifer's fall to be the moment man became separate from animals in consciousness, and I consider Eve's fall to be the result of man's maturation into understanding. What can come from this is infinite destruction, or the capability to become like gods ourselves and overcome the world (which we have). Lucifer is the Lord or Air and arial spirits in demonolatry because Air is the element of thought.
The fallen son is actually the Father of humanity's intellect. God in the biblical text is the father Adam and Eve, two ignorant and obedient humans. Lucifer is the father of everything humanity would become after that.
So yeah! Tldr, I think every source that has spoken of Lucifer probably contains some chunk of his story, and I like to consider them all.
