Как правильно пишется люцифер денница

Lucifer
Textless cover of Lucifer #16 (September 2001). Art by Christopher Moeller.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	The Sandman #4 (April 1989)
Created by	Neil Gaiman Sam Kieth Mike Dringenberg M. R. Carey
In-story information
Full name	Lucifer Samael Morningstar
Species	Fallen demiurgic archangel
Place of origin	Heaven Lucifer’s Creation Hell
Team affiliations	The Host of Heaven Loki Amenadiel Various characters who are willing to make a deal with him Mazikeen
Partnerships	Amenadiel Cain Abel
Supporting character of	Elaine Belloc Michael Demiurgos Gaudium Duma Spera
Notable aliases	Lucifer Morningstar, The Lightbringer, Satan, The Lord of Lies, The Devil, The Prince of the East, The Morningstar, The Sunlighter of God, The Adversary, Old Scratch
Abilities	Nigh-omnipotence Omniscience Omnipresence Reality warping Omni-manipulation Energy and matter manipulation Soul manipulation Time manipulation Space manipulation Darkness manipulation Fate manipulation Godlike strength Invulnerability Immortality Genius-level intellect Regeneration Flight via wings Pyrokinesis Telepathy Telekinesis Mind control Shapeshifting

Lucifer Samael Morningstar is a character who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. He is an adaptation of Lucifer—the Biblical fallen angel and devil of Christianity—and is one of the most powerful beings in the DC Universe. Though various versions of the Devil have been presented by DC Comics, this interpretation by Neil Gaiman debuted in The Sandman #4 in 1989. Lucifer appears primarily as a supporting character in The Sandman and as the protagonist of the spin-off Lucifer.

The spin-off series Lucifer (2000–2006) written by Mike Carey depicts his adventures on Earth, Heaven, and in the various other realms of his family’s creations and in uncreated voids after abandoning Hell in The Sandman.^[1] Lucifer also appears as a supporting character in issues of The Demon, The Spectre, and other DC Universe comics. Two angels, a human, and briefly Superman^[2] have taken his place as ruler of Hell.

Lucifer made his live-action debut in the 2005 film Constantine, played by Swedish actor Peter Stormare. An alternate version is played by Welsh actor Tom Ellis in the television series Lucifer (2016–2021). Ellis also made a cameo as the character in the Arrowverse crossover Crisis on Infinite Earths (2020). English actress Gwendoline Christie portrays a version in the Netflix television series The Sandman (2022).

Fictional character biography[edit]

In the earlier related series The Sandman, written by Neil Gaiman, Lucifer abandoned his lordship over Hell. While Lucifer had previously appeared in various stereotypical guises in earlier DC Comics books, Gaiman’s version was premised on English poet and prose writer John Milton’s Paradise Lost.^{[citation needed]} At Gaiman’s request of the artist, Lucifer looks like David Bowie at the time.^[3] In The Sandman, Lucifer had ruled as Lord of Hell for 10 billion years after rebelling three seconds after Creation. Over that time, he had manipulated the various demons of Hell against each other, provided a place for dead mortals to be tormented, and led the war against Heaven.

However, at some point during his rule, he had become bored with his existence. He became tired of the various stereotypes and prejudices that mortals held of the devil, such as the idea that he purchased and traded for souls, which was largely untrue, and that he forced mortals to commit evil acts. He had become tired of his reign over Hell and felt it an unfair punishment that he should have to rule there forever simply because he once rebelled. In The Sandman story «Season of Mists», Lucifer expels all the demons and damned souls from Hell before closing Hell’s gates and handing over the key to Hell to Dream of the Endless, the title character of the Sandman series. Eventually, control of Hell was handed over to two angels, Duma (the angel of silence) and Remiel («set over those who rise»), while Lucifer simply retired to Earth, initially to Perth, Western Australia^[4] and later to Los Angeles, California.^[5]

By the end of the series, however, it is revealed that Hell was not a punishment but a gift: being the furthest possible place from the throne of light, Lucifer could be separated from God as far as possible. Lucifer never created the physical features of Hell—Hell created itself around him.

Solo series[edit]

Lucifer was the main character in an eponymous series that ran for 75 issues (plus the Lucifer: Nirvana one-shot issue) from June 2000 to August 2006, the entire run of which was written by Mike Carey (this series was preceded by Carey’s The Sandman Presents: Lucifer miniseries in 1999). To Carey, the essence of the character was:

«We play safe. Most of us do, most of the time… but Lucifer doesn’t know the meaning of safe, and he never bothers to look down at the tramlines. He does whatever the hell he likes, picks his fights where he finds them and generally wins… following [his] own will and [his] own instincts to the very end of the line, no matter what the obstacles are.»^[6]

In the series, Lucifer runs a piano bar (an element introduced in The Sandman story «The Kindly Ones») called «Lux» in Los Angeles. Lucifer is portrayed as a sophisticated and charming man, in accordance with the stereotypical gentleman devil.^[1]

The theme of the Lucifer series revolves around the free will problem. Carey’s Lucifer is a figure representing the will and individual willpower, who challenges the «tyranny of predestination». While in Heaven’s eyes this is blasphemy, Lucifer points out that the rebellion (and indeed all sin) and damnation as consequence were pre-planned by his Creator, God. Lucifer rejects God’s rule and moral philosophy as tyrannical and unjust. The violent, aggressive, totalitarian, vengeful, and dictatorial aspects of Heaven’s rule are represented mostly by the angel Amenadiel, who has a particular hatred of Lucifer and leads attacks of various kinds against him. The attacks include verbal criticism, marshaling the host of Heaven, as well as challenging him to individual combat—almost all of it without the slightest care for the countless innocent, unwilling and unwitting victims that he is more than willing to sacrifice for his own pride. For his part, Lucifer disdains Amenadiel, treating the latter’s emotional outbursts with contempt, and repeatedly defeats Amenadiel’s assaults with well-orchestrated, hidden plans. Ironically, however, it is often difficult to discern when Lucifer acts as a slave to predestination, and when he effectively acts according to his own free will.

Elaborate codes of conduct and schemes of entrapment based on these codes are vital elements of the DC/Vertigo magical universe. Lucifer appears as a master of these arts. In an encounter during the first Sandman story arc (around issue #5) a weakened Dream outsmarts Lucifer. Lucifer first swears revenge on Dream, but later comes to accept Dream’s critique of his role and project as Lord of Hell. This inspires Lucifer’s abdication, a vital element of the Sandman saga, and the point of departure for the Lucifer series.^[1]

For Lucifer, his word is his bond. As David Easterman, a character who sees himself as a victim of Lucifer, puts it:

When the Devil wants you to do something, he doesn’t lie at all. He tells you the exact, literal truth. And he lets you find your own way to Hell.^[7]

Despite his theological title as the «Lord of Lies», the refusal to lie is central to the moral position of the character – he sees himself as a neutral or amoral facilitator of forces within individuals, and Lucifer actively and effectively combats what he regards as corrupting moral codes. While he avoids lying, his morality seldom extends to compassion and Lucifer regards the sacrifice of millions of souls as unimportant collateral damage; there are few, if any, beings that he respects and even fewer for whom he cares.

As the series opened in 2000, Lucifer’s «restful» retirement was disturbed by a series of associates from his past. After various catalytic events, he endeavored to create a universe in competition with (and presumably against the wishes of) his father, Yahweh. This puts him on a collision course with several powerful mystical entities that have a vested interest in the new creation and draws the angelic host into the fray – including his brother, the archangel Michael Demiurgos, and his niece, Elaine Belloc.

The series paralleled The Sandman in several ways, with epic fantasy stories being told in arcs separated by one-shot episodes depicting a smaller, more personal tale. Unlike The Sandman, the series has had a consistent art team in Peter Gross and Ryan Kelly, with most of the odd issues illustrated by Dean Ormston. The title’s 50th issue was penciled by P. Craig Russell, a homage to The Sandman #50. Structurally, the series mostly follows its own path. Numerous gods appear, with greater focus on Judeo-Christian religion (as viewed by Milton in Paradise Lost), Japanese mythology and Norse mythology than in The Sandman. As for the Endless themselves, Dream, Death, Delirium and Destiny appear, but their appearances are small and rare. Destiny, perhaps, plays the biggest role in so far as he represents predestination, which Lucifer of course finds «offensive as a concept», stating that Lucifer knows Destiny is «really just a SIDE effect of [Lucifer’s] FATHER, or rather, his deterministic APPROACH to the act of creation.»

Cover artists included Duncan Fegredo, Christopher Moeller, and Michael William Kaluta. The letters are inconsistent, with the first half of the series carrying particularly established fonts of Gaudium, Michael, and God, only to drop almost all of them, save Lucifer’s, towards the end with numerous changes in the letterers.

The series ended in June 2006 with issue #75 and has thus far been collected in 11 books, with a one-shot issue (Lucifer: Nirvana) published as a smaller graphic novel. The series’ parent title, The Sandman, also ran for 75 issues.

When Lucifer ventures outside Creation, he sees something resembling the comics pages themselves. At the end of the Lucifer story arc, God and the devil are no longer part of the universe, and a former human (Elaine Belloc) is instead presiding over it. New concepts for Heaven and Hell are created, inspired and influenced by other human or superhuman characters in the story. The new situation is described on several occasions by the fallen cherubs Gaudium and Spera. In essence, it is «growing up»; i.e., the need to find one’s own truth and values without being directed by parents, elders, teachers, authority figures, etc.

Lucifer himself, his whole identity having been forged by that same motive, scoffs at his Father’s final offer: to merge their beings (described by God as a potlatch) so that they can finally understand one another’s perspective. As this would be the final expression of God’s will (even when delivered from «outside the plan», as he puts it), Lucifer finds the ultimate expression of his own defiant will by refusing the bargain and travelling beyond his Father’s influence into the undefined void.

The New 52[edit]

In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC’s continuity. In this new timeline, Lucifer is much more influenced by traditional Christian theology. He is depicted as a malevolent, sadistic, and cunning fallen angel who is the ruler of Hell and seeks to possess human souls. He is held with great respect and fear by the denizens of Hell, who serve and obey him like a king. Lucifer himself, however, is mostly bored with his existence when the group known as the Demon Knights are captured by him during the early Middle Ages and passes the time by finding small amusements, such as watching the struggles and falls of Etrigan the Demon.

Lucifer made a more physical appearance in I…Vampire #19 after being tipped by John Constantine in destroying Cain. Lucifer immediately sentences Cain and drags him to Hell, though a being claiming to be him has appeared in the Modern Age of DC Comics to the superhero Deadman.

Note: The versions of Lucifer, Michael, Gabriel, Cain and Abel in mainstream New 52 are not of the same continuity as the versions in the previous or later Lucifer comics and are currently noncanonical to the Vertigo Sandman—Lucifer— Hellblazer continuity, in which Lucifer is not ruling Hell and Cain has not been destroyed or banished to Hell. In fact, Cain (restored to his original / New Earth version) appeared in DC’s Dark Nights: Metal #2 as a member of the Immortal Men with his brother Abel. Cain, Abel, Gabriel, and Lucifer (the Pre-Flashpoint versions) currently appear in the Sandman Universe Comics from Vertigo. Cain, Abel, Daniel Hall (Dream), and Lucien also appeared in DCs’ Dark Nights: Metal in these forms, re-establishing their Pre-New 52 incarnations in both DC and Vertigo.

Volume 2 (2015–2017)[edit]

This volume continues from where Lucifer left off before The New 52 (the New 52 version not being canon to this continuity). As this series begins, God is dead and Gabriel has accused Lucifer of His murder. Lucifer had motive and opportunity but claims he can prove his innocence. If Gabriel finds the killer and takes the culprit into custody, his sins will be forgotten, and he will be welcomed back into the Silver City. Despite the fact that Lucifer has just opened a nightclub on Earth and is hiding a mysterious wound, the two brothers set off to solve their Father’s murder.

Note: This version is not considered canon to the Lucifer comics starting in late 2018. Those will continue from where the Mike Carey continuity ended.^[8][9]

Powers and abilities[edit]

Lucifer is continuously described as a celestial being of incalculable power due to his dominion over the very substance and knowledge of the formation of Creation. Through this understanding, Lucifer can shape the matter and foundation of the creation into anything he can imagine, including matter, energy and more abstract concepts, such as time. He once shaped Big Bang energies released by the death of his brother Michael into a new universe.^[10] However, he does have certain limitations, as he is still a creation of God; chiefly, he cannot create something out of nothing, unlike his Creator or brother. In some ways, this makes him the most disadvantaged, though not the weakest, of the higher angelic host. He needs existing matter (and where that is unavailable, the Demiurgic power of the Archangel Michael or that of God Himself) to provide the foundation for him to shape. In certain dimensions for reasons unknown, he is powerless and his mobility is limited without his wings. He is also not unbeatable, as Basanos was able to kill him with probability manipulation. He may choose to temporarily abandon his powers, including his immortality. In the story titled «Lilith», it is logically implied that God could destroy him at His own whim, which makes Lucifer sometimes wonder why He has not dealt with him already. He is so dangerous and unpredictable that even Death does not apply to him. He is also able to draw out a human’s deepest desires, but due to his belief in free will, allows them to choose whether or not they should act on them, even if they make the choice on an unconscious level. Lucifer always tells the truth, but much like other trickster deities and spirits, will sometimes conveniently omit key details to fool others into doing something wrong.

He is never without the formidable resources of his brilliant intellect and his unbending will or inner strength, which allowed him to defy and confront his Father, as well as many other formidable opponents, without fear or doubt. Although Lucifer’s overt exercise of power is limited in the books, if he is provoked to violence, his preference seems to be to use fire and light as a weapon. His original role was as «God’s lamplighter», in which he used his will to condense clouds of hydrogen into star-masses and set them alight. As terrifying as they are brief, battles with Lucifer usually begin and end with him drawing down the flames of a super-heated main sequence star and incinerating to ash anything in the immediate area. However, the true reasons why he favors light and fire are partially explained in the story «Lilith» (from The Wolf Beneath the Tree).

Beyond his godly powers as an archangel, Lucifer possesses the common powers appropriate to an archangel of his position; superhuman strength, superhuman durability, flight, acidic blood (or, rather, he bleeds willpower, as depicted in when he reaches Yggdrasil in The Wolf Beneath the Tree), a devastating sonic cry, telepathy and the power to speak to and understand animals. In addition, he is a psychopomp, able to bring back from death any individual who he himself has slain. As an archangel, his powers are significantly superior to other angels.
According to Mike Carey Lucifer didn’t want to be his mouth piece. More than any other character he ever written, Lucifer insisted on going his own way it’s safe to say that Lucifer is even above the writer. Dream said saving only the creator Lucifer is the most powerful being there is and dream knows everything means only the creator can beat Lucifer rest can not.

In The New 52 reboot, Lucifer is shown to be significantly less powerful, often using Hell’s armies to do his bidding, and is susceptible to magic, shown when Excalibur was used to cut off his hand. He has no power over animal souls. He can open and close magical portals to Earth from Hell and back again. He can use this power to either summon or banish demons, as he does with Etrigan. He is clairvoyant, possessing a heightened perception or knowledge of time, even to the extent of being able to know the future.

Other versions[edit]

• The Unofficial Guide to the DC Universe lists Lucifer as first having appeared in a dream in Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #65 (1962).^[11] He appears when Jimmy Olsen attempts to memorize a devil’s food cake recipe with his alleged photographic memory and dreams that he is in France 300 years in the past. Putting on the clothing of a bandit who has ditched them, Jimmy is arrested and sent to rot in the Devil’s Island penal colony. A bald man known as Lord L offers five years of freedom for people to escape in exchange for their souls. Convinced that the magic the man uses is technological in nature, assuming him to be an ancestor of Lex Luthor, he asks to be returned whence he came, believing Lord L will be long dead by then and unable to claim him. Lord L shows up at his front door, still bald but now with a goatee, and insists that he is Lucifer and has given him over 300 years extra, but will dine with him before taking him, but disappears when Jimmy serves him cake. Superman wakes Jimmy soon after and reveals that the card he memorized was really for angel food cake, and this is why Lucifer disappeared.
• In Weird Mystery Tales #4 (January–February 1973), a story by Jack Oleck and Ruben Yandoc depicts Lucifer, looking much like his present incarnation, save for a few panels in which he appeared as a more traditional devil, held prisoner by an order of monks. It also presents a prisoner switch trick not unlike the one performed in The Sandman: Season of Mists, in addition to being hosted by Destiny, another character later used by Gaiman. In the story, Lucifer gave Philip Burton his form in order to trade places with him and fulfill his wish for immortality. Lucifer walked away in the body of the elderly Burton.
• A character called Lucifer the Fallen Angel appears in Blue Devil #31 (the final issue of the series). He has angelic wings and a halo, and his face includes dark facial hair. He does not have horns. Madame Xanadu recognizes that even with a magic book, he is not the real Lucifer. He is simply a washed-up actor who decided to be a costumed criminal for a living. He is dragged into Hell on a train at the end of the issue.
• The Unofficial Guide to the DC Universe lists Lucifer’s first genuine Pre-Crisis appearance as DC Special Series #8.^[11] This character has hair and wings like Lucifer as he appears in The Sandman (vol. 2) #4, but he is red-skinned and has a face like a traditional devil, complete with a goatee, though his horns may be part of a headband. His appearance in the comic is brief, but he is specifically referred to as «Lucifer», rather than by other epithets. He has an advisory board consisting of Guy Fawkes, Benedict Arnold, Adolf Hitler, Jack the Ripper, Nero and Bluebeard. He has an operative, Edward Dirkes, set bombs, while using a bronze Batman statue transported by the Easy Company like a voodoo doll.
• Writer Garth Ennis introduced a character intended to be the devil as an antagonist in his run on the Hellblazer comic, however, as the character appeared at the same time as Gaiman’s reuse of the Lucifer character, Ennis had to introduce a new back story for his character to distinguish the two. The Hellblazer character was named the First of the Fallen and was ruler of Hell both prior to and after Lucifer’s reign. How this fits in with the reigns of the angels and Christopher Rudd has not been clarified, although the First of the Fallen mentions Duma and Remiel ruling Hell during Ennis’ run. In the Hellblazer film adaption Constantine, however, Lucifer, portrayed by Peter Stormare, is an antagonist.
• Satan has appeared as a distinct figure in numerous DC Comics.^[12]
• In one of Vertigo’s Fables spinoffs, Jack of Fables, the title character made various (unwise) pacts with several devils. One of them is heavily inspired by Milton’s Paradise Lost.

Reception[edit]

In 2010, IGN’s named Lucifer as the 68th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time.^[13]
Lucifer was ranked 38th by ComicsAlliance for their 50 sexiest male characters in comics.^[14]

Collected editions[edit]

Paperback[edit]

Lucifer, including the Sandman Presents miniseries and the Lucifer: Nirvana one-shot, has been collected together into eleven trade paperbacks:

#	Title	Publisher	Year	ISBN	Reprints
1	Devil in the Gateway	Vertigo	2001	ISBN 1840232994	Collects The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from: The Sandman Presents: Lucifer #1–3 Lucifer #1–4
Credits and full notes Writer(s) Mike Carey Penciller(s) Scott Hampton Chris Weston James Hodgkins Warren Pleece Dean Ormston
2	Children and Monsters	Vertigo	2001	ISBN 1840233915	Collects The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from: Lucifer #5–13
Credits and full notes Writer(s) Mike Carey Penciller(s) Peter Gross Ryan Kelly Dean Ormston
3	A Dalliance with the Damned	Vertigo	2002	ISBN 1840234709	Collects The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from: Lucifer #14–20
Credits and full notes Writer(s) Mike Carey Penciller(s) Peter Gross Ryan Kelly Dean Ormston
4	The Divine Comedy	Vertigo	2003	ISBN 1840236930	Collects The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from: Lucifer #21–28
Credits and full notes Writer(s) Mike Carey Penciller(s) Peter Gross Ryan Kelly Dean Ormston
5	Inferno	Vertigo	2004	ISBN 1401202101	Collects The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from: Lucifer #29–35
Credits and full notes Writer(s) Mike Carey Penciller(s) Peter Gross Ryan Kelly Dean Ormston Craig Hamilton
6	Mansions of the Silence	Vertigo	2004	ISBN 1401202497	Collects The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from: Lucifer #36–41
Credits and full notes Writer(s) Mike Carey Penciller(s) Peter Gross Ryan Kelly Dean Ormston David Hahn
7	Exodus	Vertigo	2005	ISBN 1401204910	Collects The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from: Lucifer #42–44 & #46–49
Credits and full notes Writer(s) Mike Carey Penciller(s) Peter Gross Ryan Kelly
8	The Wolf Beneath the Tree	Vertigo	2005	ISBN 140120502X	Collects The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from: Lucifer #45 & #50–54
Credits and full notes Writer(s) Mike Carey Penciller(s) Peter Gross Ryan Kelly P. Craig Russell Ted Naifeh #50 «Lilith» is an extended 40-page story
9	Crux	Vertigo	2006	ISBN 1401210058	Collects The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from: Lucifer #55–61
Credits and full notes Writer(s) Mike Carey Penciller(s) Peter Gross Ryan Kelly Marc Hempel Ronald Wimberly
10	Morningstar	Vertigo	2006	ISBN 1401210066	Collects The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from: Lucifer #62–69
Credits and full notes Writer(s) Mike Carey Penciller(s) Peter Gross Ryan Kelly Colleen Doran Michael Wm. Kaluta
11	Evensong	Vertigo	2007	ISBN 140121200X	Collects The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from: Lucifer #70–75 the Lucifer: Nirvana 48-page one-shot
Credits and full notes Writer(s) Mike Carey Penciller(s) Peter Gross Ryan Kelly John J. Muth Zander Cannon Dean Ormston Aaron Alexovich Series ends here

Note: The full title of all volumes listed here start with «Lucifer: «.

Reprint editions[edit]

#	Title	ISBN	Release date	Collected material
1	Lucifer: Book One	9781401240264	29 May 2013	The Sandman Presents: Lucifer #1–3 and Lucifer #1–13[15]
2	Lucifer: Book Two	9781401242602	15 October 2013	Lucifer #14–28 and the Lucifer: Nirvana one-shot issue[16]
3	Lucifer: Book Three	9781401246044	18 March 2014	Lucifer #29–45[17]
4	Lucifer: Book Four	9781401246051	20 August 2014	Lucifer #46–61[18]
5	Lucifer: Book Five	9781401249458	24 December 2014	Lucifer #62–75[19]

Hardcover[edit]

Deluxe hardcovers
Title	Material collected	Additional material	Publication date	ISBN
Lucifer Omnibus Vol. 1	Lucifer #1–35	The Sandman Presents: Lucifer #1–3 Lucifer: Nirvana #1	November 5, 2019	978-1401294762
Lucifer Omnibus Vol. 2	Lucifer #36–75	House of Mystery Halloween Annual #2: Infernal Bargains: Just Say No!	November 3, 2020	978-1779505644

Volume 2[edit]

#	Title	Publisher	Year	ISBN	Reprints
1	Cold Heaven	Vertigo	August 23, 2016	ISBN 978-1-4012-6193-1	Collects The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from: Lucifer #1–6
Credits and full notes Writer(s) Holly Black Penciller(s) Lee Garbett Stephanie Hans Inker(s) Lee Garbett Stephanie Hans Colorist(s) Antonio Fabela Stephanie Hans
2	Father Lucifer	Vertigo	March 7, 2017	ISBN 978-1-4012-6541-0	Collects The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from: Lucifer #7–12
Credits and full notes Writer(s) Holly Black Penciller(s) Lee Garbett Inker(s) Lee Garbett Colorist(s) Antonio Fabela Veronica Gandini
3	Blood in the Streets	Vertigo	October 31, 2017	ISBN 978-1-4012-7139-8	Collects The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from: Lucifer #13–19
Credits and full notes Writer(s) Richard Kadrey

Note: The full title of all volumes listed here start with «Lucifer: «.

In other media[edit]

Television[edit]

• Lucifer appears in a self-titled TV series, portrayed by Tom Ellis.^[20][21]
  • Lucifer makes a cameo appearance in the Arrowverse crossover «Crisis on Infinite Earths», portrayed again by Tom Ellis.^[22][23]
• Lucifer appears in The Sandman, portrayed by Gwendoline Christie.^[24] When discussing Christie’s casting, Gaiman noted that, while Ellis reprising the role was considered, this version of Lucifer was much more faithful to the original comics and therefore it would have been difficult to reconfigure Ellis’ version of Lucifer to fit in with the universe of The Sandman.^[25]

Film[edit]

Lucifer appears in Constantine, portrayed by Peter Stormare. This version wears a white suit, sports tattoos, and constantly produces black oil from his feet.

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Lucifer Samael Morningstar at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
• Lucifer at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
• «Lucifer». DC Comics.com. Archived from the original on October 9, 2006.
• Rauch, Stephen (September 1, 2006). «Review: Lucifer». PopMatters. Archived from the original on June 22, 2011.

Lucifer
Textless cover of Lucifer #16 (September 2001). Art by Christopher Moeller.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	The Sandman #4 (April 1989)
Created by	Neil Gaiman Sam Kieth Mike Dringenberg M. R. Carey
In-story information
Full name	Lucifer Samael Morningstar
Species	Fallen demiurgic archangel
Place of origin	Heaven Lucifer’s Creation Hell
Team affiliations	The Host of Heaven Loki Amenadiel Various characters who are willing to make a deal with him Mazikeen
Partnerships	Amenadiel Cain Abel
Supporting character of	Elaine Belloc Michael Demiurgos Gaudium Duma Spera
Notable aliases	Lucifer Morningstar, The Lightbringer, Satan, The Lord of Lies, The Devil, The Prince of the East, The Morningstar, The Sunlighter of God, The Adversary, Old Scratch
Abilities	Nigh-omnipotence Omniscience Omnipresence Reality warping Omni-manipulation Energy and matter manipulation Soul manipulation Time manipulation Space manipulation Darkness manipulation Fate manipulation Godlike strength Invulnerability Immortality Genius-level intellect Regeneration Flight via wings Pyrokinesis Telepathy Telekinesis Mind control Shapeshifting

Lucifer Samael Morningstar is a character who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. He is an adaptation of Lucifer—the Biblical fallen angel and devil of Christianity—and is one of the most powerful beings in the DC Universe. Though various versions of the Devil have been presented by DC Comics, this interpretation by Neil Gaiman debuted in The Sandman #4 in 1989. Lucifer appears primarily as a supporting character in The Sandman and as the protagonist of the spin-off Lucifer.

The spin-off series Lucifer (2000–2006) written by Mike Carey depicts his adventures on Earth, Heaven, and in the various other realms of his family’s creations and in uncreated voids after abandoning Hell in The Sandman.^[1] Lucifer also appears as a supporting character in issues of The Demon, The Spectre, and other DC Universe comics. Two angels, a human, and briefly Superman^[2] have taken his place as ruler of Hell.

Lucifer made his live-action debut in the 2005 film Constantine, played by Swedish actor Peter Stormare. An alternate version is played by Welsh actor Tom Ellis in the television series Lucifer (2016–2021). Ellis also made a cameo as the character in the Arrowverse crossover Crisis on Infinite Earths (2020). English actress Gwendoline Christie portrays a version in the Netflix television series The Sandman (2022).

Fictional character biography[edit]

In the earlier related series The Sandman, written by Neil Gaiman, Lucifer abandoned his lordship over Hell. While Lucifer had previously appeared in various stereotypical guises in earlier DC Comics books, Gaiman’s version was premised on English poet and prose writer John Milton’s Paradise Lost.^{[citation needed]} At Gaiman’s request of the artist, Lucifer looks like David Bowie at the time.^[3] In The Sandman, Lucifer had ruled as Lord of Hell for 10 billion years after rebelling three seconds after Creation. Over that time, he had manipulated the various demons of Hell against each other, provided a place for dead mortals to be tormented, and led the war against Heaven.

However, at some point during his rule, he had become bored with his existence. He became tired of the various stereotypes and prejudices that mortals held of the devil, such as the idea that he purchased and traded for souls, which was largely untrue, and that he forced mortals to commit evil acts. He had become tired of his reign over Hell and felt it an unfair punishment that he should have to rule there forever simply because he once rebelled. In The Sandman story «Season of Mists», Lucifer expels all the demons and damned souls from Hell before closing Hell’s gates and handing over the key to Hell to Dream of the Endless, the title character of the Sandman series. Eventually, control of Hell was handed over to two angels, Duma (the angel of silence) and Remiel («set over those who rise»), while Lucifer simply retired to Earth, initially to Perth, Western Australia^[4] and later to Los Angeles, California.^[5]

By the end of the series, however, it is revealed that Hell was not a punishment but a gift: being the furthest possible place from the throne of light, Lucifer could be separated from God as far as possible. Lucifer never created the physical features of Hell—Hell created itself around him.

Solo series[edit]

Lucifer was the main character in an eponymous series that ran for 75 issues (plus the Lucifer: Nirvana one-shot issue) from June 2000 to August 2006, the entire run of which was written by Mike Carey (this series was preceded by Carey’s The Sandman Presents: Lucifer miniseries in 1999). To Carey, the essence of the character was:

«We play safe. Most of us do, most of the time… but Lucifer doesn’t know the meaning of safe, and he never bothers to look down at the tramlines. He does whatever the hell he likes, picks his fights where he finds them and generally wins… following [his] own will and [his] own instincts to the very end of the line, no matter what the obstacles are.»^[6]

In the series, Lucifer runs a piano bar (an element introduced in The Sandman story «The Kindly Ones») called «Lux» in Los Angeles. Lucifer is portrayed as a sophisticated and charming man, in accordance with the stereotypical gentleman devil.^[1]

The theme of the Lucifer series revolves around the free will problem. Carey’s Lucifer is a figure representing the will and individual willpower, who challenges the «tyranny of predestination». While in Heaven’s eyes this is blasphemy, Lucifer points out that the rebellion (and indeed all sin) and damnation as consequence were pre-planned by his Creator, God. Lucifer rejects God’s rule and moral philosophy as tyrannical and unjust. The violent, aggressive, totalitarian, vengeful, and dictatorial aspects of Heaven’s rule are represented mostly by the angel Amenadiel, who has a particular hatred of Lucifer and leads attacks of various kinds against him. The attacks include verbal criticism, marshaling the host of Heaven, as well as challenging him to individual combat—almost all of it without the slightest care for the countless innocent, unwilling and unwitting victims that he is more than willing to sacrifice for his own pride. For his part, Lucifer disdains Amenadiel, treating the latter’s emotional outbursts with contempt, and repeatedly defeats Amenadiel’s assaults with well-orchestrated, hidden plans. Ironically, however, it is often difficult to discern when Lucifer acts as a slave to predestination, and when he effectively acts according to his own free will.

Elaborate codes of conduct and schemes of entrapment based on these codes are vital elements of the DC/Vertigo magical universe. Lucifer appears as a master of these arts. In an encounter during the first Sandman story arc (around issue #5) a weakened Dream outsmarts Lucifer. Lucifer first swears revenge on Dream, but later comes to accept Dream’s critique of his role and project as Lord of Hell. This inspires Lucifer’s abdication, a vital element of the Sandman saga, and the point of departure for the Lucifer series.^[1]

For Lucifer, his word is his bond. As David Easterman, a character who sees himself as a victim of Lucifer, puts it:

When the Devil wants you to do something, he doesn’t lie at all. He tells you the exact, literal truth. And he lets you find your own way to Hell.^[7]

Despite his theological title as the «Lord of Lies», the refusal to lie is central to the moral position of the character – he sees himself as a neutral or amoral facilitator of forces within individuals, and Lucifer actively and effectively combats what he regards as corrupting moral codes. While he avoids lying, his morality seldom extends to compassion and Lucifer regards the sacrifice of millions of souls as unimportant collateral damage; there are few, if any, beings that he respects and even fewer for whom he cares.

As the series opened in 2000, Lucifer’s «restful» retirement was disturbed by a series of associates from his past. After various catalytic events, he endeavored to create a universe in competition with (and presumably against the wishes of) his father, Yahweh. This puts him on a collision course with several powerful mystical entities that have a vested interest in the new creation and draws the angelic host into the fray – including his brother, the archangel Michael Demiurgos, and his niece, Elaine Belloc.

The series paralleled The Sandman in several ways, with epic fantasy stories being told in arcs separated by one-shot episodes depicting a smaller, more personal tale. Unlike The Sandman, the series has had a consistent art team in Peter Gross and Ryan Kelly, with most of the odd issues illustrated by Dean Ormston. The title’s 50th issue was penciled by P. Craig Russell, a homage to The Sandman #50. Structurally, the series mostly follows its own path. Numerous gods appear, with greater focus on Judeo-Christian religion (as viewed by Milton in Paradise Lost), Japanese mythology and Norse mythology than in The Sandman. As for the Endless themselves, Dream, Death, Delirium and Destiny appear, but their appearances are small and rare. Destiny, perhaps, plays the biggest role in so far as he represents predestination, which Lucifer of course finds «offensive as a concept», stating that Lucifer knows Destiny is «really just a SIDE effect of [Lucifer’s] FATHER, or rather, his deterministic APPROACH to the act of creation.»

Cover artists included Duncan Fegredo, Christopher Moeller, and Michael William Kaluta. The letters are inconsistent, with the first half of the series carrying particularly established fonts of Gaudium, Michael, and God, only to drop almost all of them, save Lucifer’s, towards the end with numerous changes in the letterers.

The series ended in June 2006 with issue #75 and has thus far been collected in 11 books, with a one-shot issue (Lucifer: Nirvana) published as a smaller graphic novel. The series’ parent title, The Sandman, also ran for 75 issues.

When Lucifer ventures outside Creation, he sees something resembling the comics pages themselves. At the end of the Lucifer story arc, God and the devil are no longer part of the universe, and a former human (Elaine Belloc) is instead presiding over it. New concepts for Heaven and Hell are created, inspired and influenced by other human or superhuman characters in the story. The new situation is described on several occasions by the fallen cherubs Gaudium and Spera. In essence, it is «growing up»; i.e., the need to find one’s own truth and values without being directed by parents, elders, teachers, authority figures, etc.

Lucifer himself, his whole identity having been forged by that same motive, scoffs at his Father’s final offer: to merge their beings (described by God as a potlatch) so that they can finally understand one another’s perspective. As this would be the final expression of God’s will (even when delivered from «outside the plan», as he puts it), Lucifer finds the ultimate expression of his own defiant will by refusing the bargain and travelling beyond his Father’s influence into the undefined void.

The New 52[edit]

In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC’s continuity. In this new timeline, Lucifer is much more influenced by traditional Christian theology. He is depicted as a malevolent, sadistic, and cunning fallen angel who is the ruler of Hell and seeks to possess human souls. He is held with great respect and fear by the denizens of Hell, who serve and obey him like a king. Lucifer himself, however, is mostly bored with his existence when the group known as the Demon Knights are captured by him during the early Middle Ages and passes the time by finding small amusements, such as watching the struggles and falls of Etrigan the Demon.

Lucifer made a more physical appearance in I…Vampire #19 after being tipped by John Constantine in destroying Cain. Lucifer immediately sentences Cain and drags him to Hell, though a being claiming to be him has appeared in the Modern Age of DC Comics to the superhero Deadman.

Note: The versions of Lucifer, Michael, Gabriel, Cain and Abel in mainstream New 52 are not of the same continuity as the versions in the previous or later Lucifer comics and are currently noncanonical to the Vertigo Sandman—Lucifer— Hellblazer continuity, in which Lucifer is not ruling Hell and Cain has not been destroyed or banished to Hell. In fact, Cain (restored to his original / New Earth version) appeared in DC’s Dark Nights: Metal #2 as a member of the Immortal Men with his brother Abel. Cain, Abel, Gabriel, and Lucifer (the Pre-Flashpoint versions) currently appear in the Sandman Universe Comics from Vertigo. Cain, Abel, Daniel Hall (Dream), and Lucien also appeared in DCs’ Dark Nights: Metal in these forms, re-establishing their Pre-New 52 incarnations in both DC and Vertigo.

Volume 2 (2015–2017)[edit]

This volume continues from where Lucifer left off before The New 52 (the New 52 version not being canon to this continuity). As this series begins, God is dead and Gabriel has accused Lucifer of His murder. Lucifer had motive and opportunity but claims he can prove his innocence. If Gabriel finds the killer and takes the culprit into custody, his sins will be forgotten, and he will be welcomed back into the Silver City. Despite the fact that Lucifer has just opened a nightclub on Earth and is hiding a mysterious wound, the two brothers set off to solve their Father’s murder.

Note: This version is not considered canon to the Lucifer comics starting in late 2018. Those will continue from where the Mike Carey continuity ended.^[8][9]

Powers and abilities[edit]

Lucifer is continuously described as a celestial being of incalculable power due to his dominion over the very substance and knowledge of the formation of Creation. Through this understanding, Lucifer can shape the matter and foundation of the creation into anything he can imagine, including matter, energy and more abstract concepts, such as time. He once shaped Big Bang energies released by the death of his brother Michael into a new universe.^[10] However, he does have certain limitations, as he is still a creation of God; chiefly, he cannot create something out of nothing, unlike his Creator or brother. In some ways, this makes him the most disadvantaged, though not the weakest, of the higher angelic host. He needs existing matter (and where that is unavailable, the Demiurgic power of the Archangel Michael or that of God Himself) to provide the foundation for him to shape. In certain dimensions for reasons unknown, he is powerless and his mobility is limited without his wings. He is also not unbeatable, as Basanos was able to kill him with probability manipulation. He may choose to temporarily abandon his powers, including his immortality. In the story titled «Lilith», it is logically implied that God could destroy him at His own whim, which makes Lucifer sometimes wonder why He has not dealt with him already. He is so dangerous and unpredictable that even Death does not apply to him. He is also able to draw out a human’s deepest desires, but due to his belief in free will, allows them to choose whether or not they should act on them, even if they make the choice on an unconscious level. Lucifer always tells the truth, but much like other trickster deities and spirits, will sometimes conveniently omit key details to fool others into doing something wrong.

He is never without the formidable resources of his brilliant intellect and his unbending will or inner strength, which allowed him to defy and confront his Father, as well as many other formidable opponents, without fear or doubt. Although Lucifer’s overt exercise of power is limited in the books, if he is provoked to violence, his preference seems to be to use fire and light as a weapon. His original role was as «God’s lamplighter», in which he used his will to condense clouds of hydrogen into star-masses and set them alight. As terrifying as they are brief, battles with Lucifer usually begin and end with him drawing down the flames of a super-heated main sequence star and incinerating to ash anything in the immediate area. However, the true reasons why he favors light and fire are partially explained in the story «Lilith» (from The Wolf Beneath the Tree).

Beyond his godly powers as an archangel, Lucifer possesses the common powers appropriate to an archangel of his position; superhuman strength, superhuman durability, flight, acidic blood (or, rather, he bleeds willpower, as depicted in when he reaches Yggdrasil in The Wolf Beneath the Tree), a devastating sonic cry, telepathy and the power to speak to and understand animals. In addition, he is a psychopomp, able to bring back from death any individual who he himself has slain. As an archangel, his powers are significantly superior to other angels.
According to Mike Carey Lucifer didn’t want to be his mouth piece. More than any other character he ever written, Lucifer insisted on going his own way it’s safe to say that Lucifer is even above the writer. Dream said saving only the creator Lucifer is the most powerful being there is and dream knows everything means only the creator can beat Lucifer rest can not.

In The New 52 reboot, Lucifer is shown to be significantly less powerful, often using Hell’s armies to do his bidding, and is susceptible to magic, shown when Excalibur was used to cut off his hand. He has no power over animal souls. He can open and close magical portals to Earth from Hell and back again. He can use this power to either summon or banish demons, as he does with Etrigan. He is clairvoyant, possessing a heightened perception or knowledge of time, even to the extent of being able to know the future.

Other versions[edit]

• The Unofficial Guide to the DC Universe lists Lucifer as first having appeared in a dream in Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #65 (1962).^[11] He appears when Jimmy Olsen attempts to memorize a devil’s food cake recipe with his alleged photographic memory and dreams that he is in France 300 years in the past. Putting on the clothing of a bandit who has ditched them, Jimmy is arrested and sent to rot in the Devil’s Island penal colony. A bald man known as Lord L offers five years of freedom for people to escape in exchange for their souls. Convinced that the magic the man uses is technological in nature, assuming him to be an ancestor of Lex Luthor, he asks to be returned whence he came, believing Lord L will be long dead by then and unable to claim him. Lord L shows up at his front door, still bald but now with a goatee, and insists that he is Lucifer and has given him over 300 years extra, but will dine with him before taking him, but disappears when Jimmy serves him cake. Superman wakes Jimmy soon after and reveals that the card he memorized was really for angel food cake, and this is why Lucifer disappeared.
• In Weird Mystery Tales #4 (January–February 1973), a story by Jack Oleck and Ruben Yandoc depicts Lucifer, looking much like his present incarnation, save for a few panels in which he appeared as a more traditional devil, held prisoner by an order of monks. It also presents a prisoner switch trick not unlike the one performed in The Sandman: Season of Mists, in addition to being hosted by Destiny, another character later used by Gaiman. In the story, Lucifer gave Philip Burton his form in order to trade places with him and fulfill his wish for immortality. Lucifer walked away in the body of the elderly Burton.
• A character called Lucifer the Fallen Angel appears in Blue Devil #31 (the final issue of the series). He has angelic wings and a halo, and his face includes dark facial hair. He does not have horns. Madame Xanadu recognizes that even with a magic book, he is not the real Lucifer. He is simply a washed-up actor who decided to be a costumed criminal for a living. He is dragged into Hell on a train at the end of the issue.
• The Unofficial Guide to the DC Universe lists Lucifer’s first genuine Pre-Crisis appearance as DC Special Series #8.^[11] This character has hair and wings like Lucifer as he appears in The Sandman (vol. 2) #4, but he is red-skinned and has a face like a traditional devil, complete with a goatee, though his horns may be part of a headband. His appearance in the comic is brief, but he is specifically referred to as «Lucifer», rather than by other epithets. He has an advisory board consisting of Guy Fawkes, Benedict Arnold, Adolf Hitler, Jack the Ripper, Nero and Bluebeard. He has an operative, Edward Dirkes, set bombs, while using a bronze Batman statue transported by the Easy Company like a voodoo doll.
• Writer Garth Ennis introduced a character intended to be the devil as an antagonist in his run on the Hellblazer comic, however, as the character appeared at the same time as Gaiman’s reuse of the Lucifer character, Ennis had to introduce a new back story for his character to distinguish the two. The Hellblazer character was named the First of the Fallen and was ruler of Hell both prior to and after Lucifer’s reign. How this fits in with the reigns of the angels and Christopher Rudd has not been clarified, although the First of the Fallen mentions Duma and Remiel ruling Hell during Ennis’ run. In the Hellblazer film adaption Constantine, however, Lucifer, portrayed by Peter Stormare, is an antagonist.
• Satan has appeared as a distinct figure in numerous DC Comics.^[12]
• In one of Vertigo’s Fables spinoffs, Jack of Fables, the title character made various (unwise) pacts with several devils. One of them is heavily inspired by Milton’s Paradise Lost.

Reception[edit]

In 2010, IGN’s named Lucifer as the 68th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time.^[13]
Lucifer was ranked 38th by ComicsAlliance for their 50 sexiest male characters in comics.^[14]

Collected editions[edit]

Paperback[edit]

Lucifer, including the Sandman Presents miniseries and the Lucifer: Nirvana one-shot, has been collected together into eleven trade paperbacks:

#	Title	Publisher	Year	ISBN	Reprints
1	Devil in the Gateway	Vertigo	2001	ISBN 1840232994	Collects The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from: The Sandman Presents: Lucifer #1–3 Lucifer #1–4
Credits and full notes Writer(s) Mike Carey Penciller(s) Scott Hampton Chris Weston James Hodgkins Warren Pleece Dean Ormston
2	Children and Monsters	Vertigo	2001	ISBN 1840233915	Collects The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from: Lucifer #5–13
Credits and full notes Writer(s) Mike Carey Penciller(s) Peter Gross Ryan Kelly Dean Ormston
3	A Dalliance with the Damned	Vertigo	2002	ISBN 1840234709	Collects The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from: Lucifer #14–20
Credits and full notes Writer(s) Mike Carey Penciller(s) Peter Gross Ryan Kelly Dean Ormston
4	The Divine Comedy	Vertigo	2003	ISBN 1840236930	Collects The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from: Lucifer #21–28
Credits and full notes Writer(s) Mike Carey Penciller(s) Peter Gross Ryan Kelly Dean Ormston
5	Inferno	Vertigo	2004	ISBN 1401202101	Collects The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from: Lucifer #29–35
Credits and full notes Writer(s) Mike Carey Penciller(s) Peter Gross Ryan Kelly Dean Ormston Craig Hamilton
6	Mansions of the Silence	Vertigo	2004	ISBN 1401202497	Collects The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from: Lucifer #36–41
Credits and full notes Writer(s) Mike Carey Penciller(s) Peter Gross Ryan Kelly Dean Ormston David Hahn
7	Exodus	Vertigo	2005	ISBN 1401204910	Collects The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from: Lucifer #42–44 & #46–49
Credits and full notes Writer(s) Mike Carey Penciller(s) Peter Gross Ryan Kelly
8	The Wolf Beneath the Tree	Vertigo	2005	ISBN 140120502X	Collects The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from: Lucifer #45 & #50–54
Credits and full notes Writer(s) Mike Carey Penciller(s) Peter Gross Ryan Kelly P. Craig Russell Ted Naifeh #50 «Lilith» is an extended 40-page story
9	Crux	Vertigo	2006	ISBN 1401210058	Collects The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from: Lucifer #55–61
Credits and full notes Writer(s) Mike Carey Penciller(s) Peter Gross Ryan Kelly Marc Hempel Ronald Wimberly
10	Morningstar	Vertigo	2006	ISBN 1401210066	Collects The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from: Lucifer #62–69
Credits and full notes Writer(s) Mike Carey Penciller(s) Peter Gross Ryan Kelly Colleen Doran Michael Wm. Kaluta
11	Evensong	Vertigo	2007	ISBN 140121200X	Collects The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from: Lucifer #70–75 the Lucifer: Nirvana 48-page one-shot
Credits and full notes Writer(s) Mike Carey Penciller(s) Peter Gross Ryan Kelly John J. Muth Zander Cannon Dean Ormston Aaron Alexovich Series ends here

Note: The full title of all volumes listed here start with «Lucifer: «.

Reprint editions[edit]

#	Title	ISBN	Release date	Collected material
1	Lucifer: Book One	9781401240264	29 May 2013	The Sandman Presents: Lucifer #1–3 and Lucifer #1–13[15]
2	Lucifer: Book Two	9781401242602	15 October 2013	Lucifer #14–28 and the Lucifer: Nirvana one-shot issue[16]
3	Lucifer: Book Three	9781401246044	18 March 2014	Lucifer #29–45[17]
4	Lucifer: Book Four	9781401246051	20 August 2014	Lucifer #46–61[18]
5	Lucifer: Book Five	9781401249458	24 December 2014	Lucifer #62–75[19]

Hardcover[edit]

Deluxe hardcovers
Title	Material collected	Additional material	Publication date	ISBN
Lucifer Omnibus Vol. 1	Lucifer #1–35	The Sandman Presents: Lucifer #1–3 Lucifer: Nirvana #1	November 5, 2019	978-1401294762
Lucifer Omnibus Vol. 2	Lucifer #36–75	House of Mystery Halloween Annual #2: Infernal Bargains: Just Say No!	November 3, 2020	978-1779505644

Volume 2[edit]

#	Title	Publisher	Year	ISBN	Reprints
1	Cold Heaven	Vertigo	August 23, 2016	ISBN 978-1-4012-6193-1	Collects The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from: Lucifer #1–6
Credits and full notes Writer(s) Holly Black Penciller(s) Lee Garbett Stephanie Hans Inker(s) Lee Garbett Stephanie Hans Colorist(s) Antonio Fabela Stephanie Hans
2	Father Lucifer	Vertigo	March 7, 2017	ISBN 978-1-4012-6541-0	Collects The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from: Lucifer #7–12
Credits and full notes Writer(s) Holly Black Penciller(s) Lee Garbett Inker(s) Lee Garbett Colorist(s) Antonio Fabela Veronica Gandini
3	Blood in the Streets	Vertigo	October 31, 2017	ISBN 978-1-4012-7139-8	Collects The reprinted material is, in whole or in part, from: Lucifer #13–19
Credits and full notes Writer(s) Richard Kadrey

Note: The full title of all volumes listed here start with «Lucifer: «.

In other media[edit]

Television[edit]

• Lucifer appears in a self-titled TV series, portrayed by Tom Ellis.^[20][21]
  • Lucifer makes a cameo appearance in the Arrowverse crossover «Crisis on Infinite Earths», portrayed again by Tom Ellis.^[22][23]
• Lucifer appears in The Sandman, portrayed by Gwendoline Christie.^[24] When discussing Christie’s casting, Gaiman noted that, while Ellis reprising the role was considered, this version of Lucifer was much more faithful to the original comics and therefore it would have been difficult to reconfigure Ellis’ version of Lucifer to fit in with the universe of The Sandman.^[25]

Film[edit]

Lucifer appears in Constantine, portrayed by Peter Stormare. This version wears a white suit, sports tattoos, and constantly produces black oil from his feet.

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Lucifer Samael Morningstar at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
• Lucifer at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
• «Lucifer». DC Comics.com. Archived from the original on October 9, 2006.
• Rauch, Stephen (September 1, 2006). «Review: Lucifer». PopMatters. Archived from the original on June 22, 2011.

денница в разных странах

люцифер

Люцифер Морнингстар (настоящее имя: Самаэль, Светоносный) также известный как Дьявол и Сатана — падший ангел и бывший властитель Ада. Ныне он живёт на Земле и управляет ночным клубом Люкс, одновременно занимаясь расследованием преступлений, что помогает ему наказывать грешников.

История

Когда Люцифер был ангелом на небесах, он затеял восстание против Отца. Он собрал вокруг себя единомышленников, но заговор не удался, а Бог, разгневанный его поведением, сослал Люцифера в Ад, чтобы там он вечно присматривал за душами грешников. С этих непростых времен берет свой исток крепкая дружба Люцифера и демоницы Мейзикин, которая впоследствии отрезала его крылья по его собственной просьбе.  Спустя много лет заточения в Аду Люциферу стало совсем тоскливо, и он решил переместиться поближе к людям. Обосновавшись в Лос-Анжелесе, Люцифер стал владельцем ночного клуба и вел исключительно праздный образ жизни. Пока убийство его подруги не заставило его взяться за поиски преступника, а в последствие стать консультантом в расследовании преступлений, заняв место напарника детектива Хлои Декер.

Личность

Как ему кажется, всегда добивается того, чего хочет. Поэтому он не испытывает недостатка в высокомерии. Люцифер уверен, что знает людей и их желания, и не боится последствий своих действий и препятствий на пути достижения цели. Так как Люцифер не является человеком, он глядит на людей со стороны и почти всегда позволяет себе игнорировать какие-то общепринятые нормы и правила. Он любит говорить откровенно и честно, и ему нравится наблюдать за тем, как люди реагируют на это.

Проведя время на Земле, Люцифер стал лучше относиться к людям. Он научился заботиться о некоторых из них, иногда раскаиваться за свои ошибки и понимать грешников, давая им шанс исправиться. Люцифер показывает, что он не безжалостен, а справедлив.

Дьявольский облик Люцифера.

В человеческом облике Люцифер выглядит как высокий темноволосый мужчина. Он предпочитает носить дорогие костюмы и рубашки с запонками. Однако его силы не безграничны, поэтому Люцифер не может скрыть жуткие раны на своей спине, откуда раньше росли крылья.

Крылья Люцифера

В демоническом облике глаза Люцифера становятся ярко красными, пылающими, а потом такой же красной и обугленной становится кожа. При этом исчезают волосы с головы. Однако ни хвоста, ни рогов у него не отрастают. У Люцифера есть и истинная, ангельская форма.

Начиная с третьего сезона Люцифер потерял свой дьявольский облик, думая, что его забрал Бог. Но чуть позже Аменадиил выдвинул версию, что не Бог во всём виноват, а они сами. В конце сезона Люцифер восстановил свой лик, и сильно повредил крылья.

Люцифер закрывает детектива и себя крыльями

Силы и способности

Являясь ангелом, Люцифер обладает большой силой. Он является самым одаренным ангелом. Среди способностей Люцифера есть:

Бессмертие — Люцифер не стареет и не болеет. Он может жить вечно.

Неуязвимость — Люцифера нельзя убить или ранить любыми для человека способами.

Телепортация — благодаря крыльям Люцифер может переместится почти мгновенно в любое место на Земле или в ад. В рай он переместится вряд ли сможет так как туда ему дорога закрыта.

Влияние — может влиять на людей, что бы они открывали ему свои потаённые желания.

Сверхсила — Люцифер обладает огромной физической силой, выносливостью, физической стойкостью (способен перенести значительные физические повреждения не только без последствий, но даже не испытывая боли).

Исцеление — перья от крыльев Люцифера имеют исцеляющую силу, которые исцелят любую рану. Таким пером Мейз исцелила рану Аменадиила.

Воспламенение Клинка Азраэль — возможно единственный из всех ангелов может его воспламенить, так как его имя значит «светоносный».

Истинное лицо — Когда Люцифер, показывает облик демона, людям. То у них, появляется страх и паника, а вскоре в большинстве случаев, они делают суицид или становится, психически нездоровыми людьми .

Слабости

Пылающий Меч — может нанести вред Люциферу и даже убить, уничтожив его сущность.

Клинок Азраэль — даже часть Пылающего меча может нанести вред Люциферу и даже убить, уничтожив его сущность.

Ножи Мейзикин — одним из них Малкольм серьёзно ранил Аменадиила, так же с помощью них Мейзикин отрезала крылья Люциферу.

Хлоя Декер — в её присутствии у Люцифера блокируются бессмертие и неуязвимость и его можно ранить или убить человеческим оружием.

Ангелы — ангелы могут нанести друг другу вред или убить. Так во время драки с Аменадиилом он получал серьёзные повреждения.

Демоны — похоже что демоны тоже могут нанести вред ангелу. Так во время драки с Мейзикин оба друг друга сильно избили.

Боги — Бог и Богиня породили его, а значит могут ранить или убить

Спасибо что зашли на наш сайт, перед тем как начать чтение вы можете подписаться на интересную православную mail рассылку, для этого вам необходимо кликнуть по этой ссылке «Подписаться»

Люцифер — первое имя дьявола, которое он носил до изгнания с неба. Эта теория появилась в трудах христианских писателей лишь на стыке IV–V вв. н. э. Кем же Люцифера считали до этого, и есть ли библейское основание идентифицировать его с лидером демонов? Ответ содержится в Священном Писании.

Значение слова

На латыни «люцифер» — «светоносный». А так это слово звучит в других языках:

• денница;
• утренняя звезда;
• дневная звезда;

• сияющий.

Древнее название планеты

Для древнеримского поэта Овидия, как и для его соотечественников, Люцифер был сыном богини утренней зари. Этим именем они называли Венеру, ведь она появляется как предвестник восхода. У эллинов она была Фосфором, а у славян — Денницей.

В действительности планета становится видимой и вскоре после захода солнца. Однако древние астрономы считали её другим светилом — Вечерней звездой.

Некоторые считают, что он сын Авроры и Кефала, который превзошёл многих в красоте настолько, что даже соперничал с Венерой, и, как говорит Эратосфен, по этой причине его [Люцифера] называют звездой Венеры. Она видна как на рассвете, так и на закате, и поэтому правильно называть и как Люцифер, и как Геспер.

Псевдо-Гигин

В семитской мифологии Венера тоже носит имя Утренняя звезда — Аттар. Это божество собиралось устроить революцию, дабы править вместо Ваала, но план не удался, и бунтовщику пришлось стать владыкой Подземного царства. Параллель с сатаной очевидна.

Иштар Венера, вавилонская богиня, 4 в.до н.э. Лувр, Париж

У вавилонского верховного божества власть пытался отобрать бог Хелель (Хелал), чьё имя в родстве с иудейским названием Венеры: Хайлель бен Шарах. Из всех библейских книг оно используется только у Исайи.

Перевод блаженного Иеронима

В IV веке появилась Вульгата — перевод Библии на латынь, сделанный св. Иеронимом Стридонским — знатоком иврита. Вульгата — первый христианский текст, где использовалось слово «люцифер». Оно встречается даже во множественном числе, но главное — Иероним счёл его подходящим для передачи использованного пророком Исайей сравнения с утренней звездой.

Под влиянием перевода св. Иеронима в Библии короля Иакова метафора превратилась в обращение. Стоило написать его с прописной буквы, как слово стало именем:

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!

Так эпитет «утренняя звезда» преобразовался в личное имя сатаны.

Люцифер в Библии: все упоминания

В Священном Писании нет прямого указания на то, что Люцифер — это дьявол. Одни толкователи считают их одной личностью, другие не видят для этого оснований. 

Бытие

Первый раз дьявол появляется на страницах Писания в виде змея. Он искусил Еву попробовать запретный плод и тем положил начало человеческой трагедии.

Росписи Свято-Владимирского собора в Киеве. Виктор Васнецов, Искушение Евы

Падший ангел сделал это из ненависти. Это отравляющее чувство люди вызывают в нём потому, что Бог сотворил их по Своему образу и подобию и наделил потенциалом духовно возвыситься над Ангелами.

Читайте также: Искушение это — простыми словами…

Сотворение ангельского мира

Бог создал небесное воинство раньше, чем нашу планету. Когда Он творил её, Ангелы выражали бурную радость.

Ты, Господи, един, Ты создал небо, небеса небес и все воинство их.

Неем. 9:6

Согласно Преданию, ангелы низших чинов подчинялись высшим. Командовал ими Денница — наиболее приближённое к Богу духовное создание (серафим или херувим), одарённое более других интеллектом, силой и красотой. Иоанн Дамаскин пишет, что Люцифер был защитником Земли. Создатель любил его больше всех Своих сыновей.

Бунт Денницы и Архангел Михаил

Собственная красота и другие дарованные Богом достоинства так вскружили Деннице голову, что он сравнил себя с Ним и решил, что вполне способен Его заменить и даже превзойти.

Падение Денницы, икона.

О низвержении сатаны и его сторонников с Небес рассказывает Библия:

И низвержен был великий дракон, древний змий, называемый диаволом и сатаною, обольщающий всю вселенную, низвержен на землю, и ангелы его низвержены с ним.

Откр. 12:9

Сатану сгубила гордыня — в своих глазах он поставил себя выше всех. Сначала от Творца отпал только он, а потом дьявол соблазнил треть собратьев, и те отвернулись от Небесного Отца. Те, кто поддались искушению, превратились в демонов, хотя изначально все Ангелы были добрыми.

Организованный дьяволом бунт подавил Архангел Михаил, сражавшийся вместе с собратьями, оставшимися верными Богу. Он выдворил демонов из небесного дома, и те создали собственное царство, монархом которого стал сатана.

Упоминание в Книге Исайи

Знак равенства между Люцифером и сатаной Отцы Церкви поставили после переосмысления 12 стиха из 14 главы Книги Исайи:

Как упал ты с неба, денница, сын зари! разбился о землю, попиравший народы.

Эти слова обращены к падшему правителю Вавилона. Одним из первых отсылки к сатане в этом месте увидел Тертуллиан, однако он никогда не упоминал слово «Люцифер» как имя собственное. Со временем денница стал метафорой для обозначения падшего ангела, хотя Исайя прямо говорит, что речь о вавилонском царе, которого настигло возмездие за все его преступления.

Въезд Александра Македонского в Вавилон (1665 г) Шарль Лебрен (1619 — 1690)
Холст, масло
450 x 707 см

Исайя называет его утренней звездой, чтобы показать блеск его прежней славы. Как Венера превосходит сиянием другие звёзды, так в свете славы вавилонского владыки меркли все земные цари того времени. Но её затмит солнце — Израиль.

Богословы видят в этих стихах не только прямой смысл, но и аллегорический. Вавилонский царь — собирательный образ всех гордых и жестоких правителей мира, к которым относится и сатана. Сначала он был светлым Архангелом, а затем гордыня раздула его амбиции до чудовищных размеров и те выместили его святость. Желая сравняться в величии с Богом, он нарушил Его закон и лишился ангельских полномочий и привилегий.

Так у бывшего ангела света появились новые имена: отец лжи, убийца, князь тьмы, мятежник и т. п.

Исайя, создавая трагедию, создаёт целую детальную драматургическую разработку для Дьявола под маской ассирийца.

Иоанн, патриарх Антиохии

Герберт Вольф — американский толкователь Ветхого Завета — считает, что пророк обращается не столько к умершему тирану, сколько к Вавилону, и радуется падению империи.

Затем стих Исайи связали со словами Иисуса Христа, который описывает это событие как очевидец:

Я видел сатану, спадшего с неба, как молнию.

Лк. 10:18

 Отцы ранней христианской Церкви видели в падении вавилонского правителя аллегорию грядущего поражения сатаны.

С этой же позиции западные богословы рассматривают обращение пророка Иезекииля к царю Тира:

Ты находился в Едеме, в саду Божием; твои одежды были украшены всякими драгоценными камнями; рубин, топаз и алмаз, хризолит, оникс, яспис, сапфир, карбункул и изумруд и золото, все, искусно усаженное у тебя в гнездышках и нанизанное на тебе, приготовлено было в день сотворения твоего.

Ты был помазанным херувимом, чтобы осенять, и Я поставил тебя на то; ты был на святой горе Божией, ходил среди огнистых камней. Ты совершен был в путях твоих со дня сотворения твоего, доколе не нашлось в тебе беззакония… От красоты твоей возгордилось сердце твое, от тщеславия твоего ты погубил мудрость твою; за то Я повергну тебя на землю, перед царями отдам тебя на позор.

Иез. 28:13-17

В раннем христианстве

Иисус Христос именует сатану князем, а апостол Павел — богом мира сего, способным принимать вид Ангела света (Ин. 12:31, 2 Кор. 4:4; 11:14). Хотя Фома Аквинский считал его и бесов духовными сущностями, обладающими высоким интеллектом.

Миниатюра-заставка из Евангелия Хитрово

В раннехристианской литературе высказывались разные точки зрения на то, что именно было первым грехом сатаны:

1. Юстин Мученик считал, что из-за него прародители человечества ослушались Бога.
2. Киприан приписывает ему ревность и зависть к Адаму — эмоции, несовместимые со святостью.
3. Ориген Александрийский называет гордыню и бунт против Всевышнего.

Со временем биография Князя Тьмы обросла новыми подробностями. По мнению многих верующих, он стал королём ада и повелителем ведьм.

Но есть ли библейское основание ставить знак равенства между словами «сатана» и «люцифер»? Утренней звездой в Писании назван и Спаситель:

Я, Иисус, послал Ангела Моего засвидетельствовать вам сие в церквах. Я есмь корень и потомок Давида, звезда светлая и утренняя.

Откр. 22: 16

По «Толковой Библии» Лопухина, Иисус является светлой утренней звездой, потому что Он — надежда на то, что придёт вечный день Его Царства.

Люцифер — эпитет Иоанна Предтечи в Вульгате и Господа Иисуса Христа — в пасхальном католическом гимне.

Люцифер, сатана, демон, дьявол, падший ангел — синонимы?

Дьявол — «клеветник», потому что использует ложь для достижения целей и обвиняет перед Богом людей, чтобы они разделили его ужасную участь. Сатана — «противник». Несмотря на разные значения эти титулы Князя мира сего используются как синонимы.

Падение Симона-волхва, икона.

Падшим ангелом можно назвать как сатану, так и любого демона. Однако сатану демоном не называют, он выше их по статусу, так как правит царством злых духов. А слово «Люцифер» в этом значении активно используют голивудские сценаристы. Обозреватель журнала «Фома», публицист и богослов Сергей Худиев считает:

Нам не стоит использовать слово «Люцифер» для именования сатаны — во-первых, теперь-то он уже точно никакой не светоносец, во вторых, не стоит обижать благочестивых людей, которые носили это имя, а в третьих — не стоит связываться с голливудской традицией люциферических страшилок, которые в духовном отношении могут сбивать с толку.

Мифы о Люцифере

Нет ни одного языческого мифа о Люцифере. Скорее всего, он был не древним божеством, а только поэтическим образом. Однако после его отождествления с дьяволом авторы апокрифов приписали ему то, что совершенно не соответствует библейской истине:

1. Создатель сбросил его на землю, а не убил, так как тот был равен Ему по силе.
2. Люцифер влюбился и взбунтовался против Господа из-за того, что не мог быть с любимой. Бог заточил его в подземелье, но потом разрешил раз в 100 лет облетать землю в поисках девушки. Это больше похоже не на смягчение наказания, а на изощрённое издевательство, потому её уже давно не было в живых.
3. Творец сам подбил Люцифера на восстание, чтобы тот, испытывая людей в своей тёмной ипостаси, помогал развиваться их душам.
4. В «Евангелии Тайной Вечери» Люцифер — старший брат Иисуса. Спустившись на землю, Люцифер заточил небесные души в людях. Иисус отправился следом, чтобы выпустить души на свободу, а старший брат попытся уничтожить его, используя как орудие убийства крест.
5. В Средние века бытовало еретическое мнение, что небесное воинство создано Люцидой — звёздной энергией. В эпоху Возрождения возникла тенденция представлять Люцифера не сатаной, а продолжателем дела его матери, дарующей свет и добро. Он должен был возродить человечество.

Люцифер — имя нарицательное?

В качестве синонима «сатаны» слово «люцифер» может использоваться как нарицательное. А сатана в Библии — это не только падший ангел, но и тот, кто чинит препоны, строит козни, противится воле Всевышнего. Или просто мешает кому-то совершить задуманное — как Ангел, заступивший дорогу ехавшему на ослице волхву Валааму (Чис. 22:22).

«Семь смертных грехов и четыре последние вещи» фрагмент картины нидерландского художника Иеронима Босха

В раввинской традиции сатана — это не титул тёмной духовной личности, а синоним греха — поступка, идущего вразрез с Божьей волей.

Люцифер Калабрийский — подвижник древнехристианской Церкви

Люцифер Калабрийский — святитель IV в., присутствовавший на Первом Вселенском соборе. Он жил в Кальяри, на юге Италии, где Люциферы в ту эпоху встречались так же часто, как у нас — Сергеи и Андреи.

Люцифе́р из Калья́ри, также Люцифе́р Калари́йский, Люцифе́р Каларита́нский и Люкифе́р Калари́сский (лат. Lucifer Calaritanus); Сан-Лючифе́ро (итал. San Lucifero — «святой Люцифер»; ум. 370 или 371) — епископ Кальяри на о. Сардиния (353—370/371), известный своей активной борьбой против арианства, христианский местночтимый святой. О нем в ряду с папой Либерием и Осией Испанским упоминает Афанасий Великий

Епископ всю жизнь боролся с арианством, да так активно, что в 355 году император Констанциий II после трёхдневного спора изгнал Люцифера в Фивы (Египет). Он смог вернуться оттуда лишь через 7 лет, уже при императоре Юлиане, так и не изменив своим убеждениям. После смерти его возвели в ранг святых.

Итак, в первые века христианства слово «люцифер» не использовалось как личное имя сатаны, а было лишь описательным прилагательным. Популяризация Люцифера как личного имени дьявола произошла благодаря художественным произведениям. В «Божественной комедии» Данте определил Люциферу роль владыки ада, пребывающем в ледяной пустыне девятого круга. А у Мильтона в поэме «Потерянный рай» он искушает Еву.

У современных людей Люцифер-сатана в первую очередь ассоциируется с голливудским кинематографом. Русская Православная Церковь, однако, не считает, что князь зла и тьмы достоин именоваться светоносцем. Он мог быть Люцифером до падения с Неба, но не после.

Виктор Глебов

Похожие статьи

Хотим привлечь ваше внимание к проблеме разрушенных храмов, пострадавших в безбожные годы. Более 4000 старинных церквей по всей России ждут восстановления, многие находятся в критическом положении, но их все еще можно спасти.

Один из таких храмов, находится в городе Калач, это церковь Успения Божией Матери XVIII века. Силами неравнодушных людей храм начали восстанавливать, но средств на все работы катастрофически не хватает, так как строительные и реставрационные работы очень дорогие. Поэтому мы приглашаем всех желающих поучаствовать в благом деле восстановления храма в честь Пресвятой Богородицы. Сделать это можно на сайте храма

Помочь храму

Рекомендуем статьи по теме

История грехопадения Адама и Евы берет свое начало с падших ангелов. Предводителем падших ангелов стал Люцифер денница Божья. Но что обозначают эти слова, имена? Кто такие Люцифер и денница? Рассмотрим вопрос подробно в статье.

Что обозначает имя Люцифера

В переводе с латыни слово Люцифер обозначает «несущий свет». Это был лучезарный светоносный ангел, один из приближенных к Трону Бога. Он был самым прекрасным и чистым, пользовался безграничным доверием бога. В Библии нет прямого указания на бунт ангелов, но об этом можно прочитать в других источниках.

Так, по легенде, светоносный ангел отказался поклониться Адаму, посчитав это унижением своего достоинства. Этой же версии придерживается и мусульманская ветвь авраамических религий. Люцифер заявил, что он создан из тончайшей материи, а Адам — из праха земного.

В связи с этим обстоятельством Люцифер категорически отказался поклониться Адаму, что дало импульс трансформации его сущности из ангельской в демоническую.

Что интересно, отождествление Люцифера с сатаной произошло не сразу. Например, в Сардинии был священник по имени Люцифер Каларисский, он служил в 4 веке н. э. в церкви. Это официальные данные. После смерти его возвели в ранг святых. С какого времени имя Люцифер стали отождествлять с вселенским злом? Теологи полагают, что в начале средневековья.

Итак, имени Люцифер в Библии нет. Зато есть слово Денница. Его можно найти в книге Исайи (14 гл). Пророк Исайя сравнивает вавилонского царя с падшим Денницей.

Денницей наши предки именовали утреннюю зарю. То есть, слово «денница» переводится как «утренняя заря». Получается, что латинской название «Люцифер» и славянское «денница» — равнозначны.

Сатаной Денницу впервые называет пророк Захария в своей книге, в Третьей главе. Денница показан как обвинитель (сатана) замыслов Божьих, обесценивает их значимость.

Падение Люцифера

Как любимый сын Бога (первенец) стал его лютым врагом и ненавистником? Почему Люцифер стал падшим ангелом? Творец в начале времён создал ангелов, чтобы они служили ему и восхваляли имя его.

Люцифер излучал любовь, добро, красоту. Он был самым прекрасным созданием Господним, самым талантливым учеником. Он с радостью помогал Богу, подавая всем пример для подражания.

По своему уровню развития Люцифер был почти как Бог, но все же оставался его созданием. Он принимал активное участие в процессе творения, был наделен великой силой — и свободой воли.

Он не смог перенести возвышение Адама, которого рассматривал как конкурента. Семена гордыни дали свои плоды, и вот, любимый сын Денница становится чудовищем. Вместе с ним отпали от Бога треть ангелов.

Когда Денница выразил свое неповиновение Богу, в нем появилась гордыня. И вот что об этом написано в книге Исайи:

Один грех влечет за собой второй, второй — третий. И так до бесконечности. Грехи может остановить только искреннее покаяние, но у Денницы не было своего исповедника. Так он окончательно превратился в демона, а вместе с ним и последовавшие ангелы. Духовная трансформация произошла мгновенно, как только в сознании взошли ростки греховной мысли.

Денница подумал, что сможет так же стать Богом, ведь ему доверяют так много ангелов. Они восхищаются им и преклоняются перед его мудростью.

Также он под гнетом гордыни решил, что лучше знает, в чем нуждаются люди, и пошел соблазнять Адама и Еву в райский сад. Там он им предложил запретные знания, за которые Бог лишил их своего благоволения.

С этого момента между Творцом и его противником дьяволом идет непрекращающаяся война. Люцифер откровенно ненавидит всех людей, всячески им вредит и губит души. Корни этой ненависти — в зависти к первочеловеку Адаму. Денница привык был самым лучшим и любимым, он не смог смириться с конкуренцией.

Гордыня

Откуда у ангела света могла взяться гордыня? Грех моментально вступает в силу, как только нарушаются заповеди любви. Так произошло и с Люцифером, когда он возвысился над Адамом и не захотел его признавать. Ангелы были тоже созданы свободными существами, и у них было право выбора.

Соблазнившись почитанием и восхищением своей персоной, Люцифер и не заметил, как стал впадать в прелесть. Признание ангелов и их любовь убедили Люцифера в своем совершенстве и превосходстве.

Однажды Денница увидел Трон Бога пустым, он сел на него и заставил ангелов преклониться пред собой. Это было начало раскола в ангельской среде. Некоторые из них так искренне восхищались Денницей, что даже не заподозрили его духовного перерождения.

Сброшенный с Небес гордец превратился в ужасное чудовище, его месть за унижение стала выливаться на ни в чем не повинных людей. Он стал человекоубийцей, клеветником, соблазнителем, осквернителем. Вся его ненависть к Богу обрушилась в полной мере на Божьи создания — людей.

Таким образом, светоносный ангел прошел путь от любимца Бога до ужасного чудовища, средоточием всех имеющихся пороков на земле. Однако мечта править сбылась: он стал властителем ада.

Денница совершенно не замечал своего уродства, ведь он наслаждался вседозволенностью. Теперь не нужно никому подчиняться, не нужно никого прославлять — он сам себе хозяин и господин.

Каково же истинное имя Люцифера Денницы, что говорит википедия? Согласно иудейской традиции все ангелы имеют имена с окончанием «эль»: Рафаэль, Михаэль. Самаэль — это имя Люцифера до падения, иудейское имя.

Денница — это слово обозначает его качество — утренняя звезда. Денница и Люцифер обозначают одно и то же — утреннюю звезду.  Так что исконным ангельским именем Денницы является имя Самаэль.