Devil
The Devil is the name given to a supernatural entity who, in most Western religions, is the central embodiment of evil. This entity is also commonly referred to by a variety of names, including Satan, Lucifer, Mephistopheles and Beelzebub. In classic demonology, however, each of these alternate names refers to a specific supernatural entity, and there is significant disagreement as to whether any of these specific entities is actually evil. The word devil is derived from the Greek word diabolos ("to slander"), and the term devil can refer to a lesser demon in the hierarchy of Hell. At the same time, the term devil is also derived from the same Indo-European root word for deva, which roughly translates as "angel."The notion of a central supernatural embodiment of evil, as well as the notion of angels, first arose in Western monotheism when Judaism came into contact with the Persian religion of Zoroastrianism. Unlike classical monotheism, Zoroastrianism features two gods, one good and one evil, locked in a cosmic struggle where both are more or less evenly matched and the outcome is uncertain. Ahura Mazda ("Wise Lord"), also known as Ohrmazd, is the god of light, and Ahriman ("Evil Spirit"), also known as Angra Mainyu, is the god of darkness. In a final battle between the supernatural forces of good and evil, human souls will be judged in a fiery ordeal, and only the good will survive this ordeal. Accordingly, humans are urged to align themselves with the god of light and his angels and to shun the god of darkness and his demons.
Christianity views Satan as a being created by God, whereas the evil god of Zoroastrianism isn't a created being.
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Centrals 8 to 14: radials 12 to 40 or more.
neo-mexicanus* (59), deserti* (61), chloranthus* (62),
borders of the United States, as even individual stations of
States forms represent a northern extension of an abundant
the thirty-one forms defined as occurring north of the Rio
found far from the boundary, and all the twelve.html">twelve are Mexican forms
the forms are found east of the Pecos: heyderi, the most widely
of Texas westward along the whole Mexican boundary except in
southern New Mexico; meiacanthus, also along the Mexican border
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Eagle Pass.
The Pecos forms the eastern boundary of five other EUMAMILLARIA
Chihuahua, apparently only in the mountains between the Pecos and
ranging further northward on the high plains of the Upper Pecos
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the highlands of Sonora and Chihuahua, with the exception of the
species, tetrancistrus, is also a Sonoran type which has reached
and extended through western Arizona to southern Nevada and
EUMAMILLARIA. The twelfth form, goodrichii, is Lower
County. A summarized statement of the distribution of our twelve
grounds of Coahuila and Chihuahua and spread along the valley of
and Sonora, four of which have extended eastward to the low
west of the Pecos, and one has kept to the Colorado Valley and
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