This documentary on this history of the devil was very interesting, It goes on bout where the first mention of the devil an "the Satan" which means the accuser. a servant of god who did the dirty work, an wasn't evil at all. Then the greeks adopted the concept of it an added a range a characters of there own, one of them being "Hades" being the devil but is als not evil. in a famous myth Zeus defeats a winged serpent Tyfon and sent him the the lowest parts of the underworld "tortoues". over centurys the myth developed into the well known story about how Satan rebelled against god an gets thrown out of heaven with all his followers, Satan's alleys the fallen angels. also is tells you about how the fiery hell we know came to be. it was based on "Gehenna" a rubbish heap in Jerusalem an because of the stink it would be set on fire an would burn for days if not weeks, it was aslo a for the Jerusalem authority's to burn the bodys of the executed criminals. from this overtime people thought of it to be a supernatural place, an it was said that is was a fate for the wicked. so Gehenna was inspiration the fiery hell we know.

Throughout history we have changed the way Satan looks from an fallen angel with wings, to then the black bearded god with a two pronged staph.. then he adopted dragon feet as it was said dragons was a symbol of evil, then he developed a hairy body, horns, an goat legs from the pagan god Pan. then in the 20th century Satan was thought to look like a well dressed man, he could grant you wished in return for your soul.