Azazel

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Azazel would mean " God returned fort" by the use of the " root; azaz" in the singular of the third nobody and " El" who means god. The name Azazel has Hebraic alternatives which are " Azaël" or " Aziel" based on the " root; oz" who means force.

Judaism

Azazel appears in the Bible, Lévitique 16:8, in the description of the ritual of Yom Kippour. The large priest was to take two goats then to draw them with the fate. The first was directly sacrificed in atonement to God. The large priest imposed the hands on the second and confessed the sins of the whole of the people Juif. Thus charged, it was sent to its death in the desert by a Hebrew which was to then purify.

The Talmud, in the treaty Yoma 67b, identifies Azazel with a cliff the top of which the goat was precipitated. This version is confirmed by largest of the biblical commentators, Rashi which affirms that Azazel means cliff. Ibn Ezra thinks that the term indicates a mountain of the the Sinai in particular.

Christianity

In the Christian tradition, Azazel is the first color-bearer of the infernal legions, he illustrates the duel between the contrary forces: the Christ and Satan. It is mentioned in the list of principal the demon S established by the Church with gun 7 of the I {{er}} council of Braga. It is also one of the chiefs of the descendants of the fallen angels according to the first book of Enoch. Moreover in the apocalypse of Abraham, it is described like a demon with seven heads of snake, fourteen faces and twelve wings.

Islam

Master of the fallen angels at the Moslem , it taught with the men art to manufacture weapons, to melt metals to create currency. It is him which showed to the women art to employ make-ups and other ornaments. He also learned how to the giants to use their force and to stir up their passions. He taught the virtue of the Simples (grass) and forces it poisons, enchantments, fascinations. He taught finally the Astronomie, the Divination by the signs of the air, the ground and the moon. It is what was named the Mystère of Iniquity.

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