Lucifer

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Lucifer is the fallen angel and ruler of Hell in Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, embodying ultimate evil and the antithesis of divine order.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf devil
fallen angel
fictional character
literary character
appearsIn Divine Comedy NERFINISHED
Inferno NERFINISHED
associatedElement ice
associatedSin pride
treachery
associatedWithVirtueInverted perverted love
bodyPart bat-like wings
six eyes
three heads
three mouths
cannot speak
chews Brutus NERFINISHED
Cassius NERFINISHED
Judas Iscariot NERFINISHED
contrastsWith Paradiso’s vision of God
cosmicPosition center of gravity of the universe in Dante’s cosmology
createdBy Dante Alighieri NERFINISHED
environment frozen lake of Cocytus NERFINISHED
firstAppearsInCanto Inferno Canto 34 NERFINISHED
hasFaceCount 3
hasWingCount 6
imprisonedBy divine justice
languageOfWork Italian
literaryFunction culmination of the descent through sin
negative mirror of divine majesty
locatedIn Cocytus NERFINISHED
center of Hell
ninth circle of Hell NERFINISHED
moralCategory traitor to God
movementEffect flapping wings generates freezing wind
opposes God NERFINISHED
divine order
orientation upside down relative to Earth’s surface
originEvent fall from Heaven
physicalForm giant three-faced demon
punishmentType eternal imprisonment in ice
residesInRealm Hell (Dante) NERFINISHED
roleInWork antithesis of divine order
embodiment of ultimate evil
ruler of Hell
symbolizes frozen impotence of evil
perversion of divine order
ultimate treachery
workComposedInCentury 14th century

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Constantine character Lucifer
subject surface form: Constantine (2005 film)
Comedìa containsCharacter Lucifer
Vanessa Ives enemies Lucifer
Inferno featuresCharacter Lucifer
The Black Album hasPart Lucifer
Lucifer Morningstar mythologicalBasis Lucifer
subject surface form: Lucifer Morningstar (The Sandman TV series)
this entity surface form: Lucifer from Christian tradition
the Adversary relatedConcept Lucifer