Satan, Lucifer and Beelzebubare not necessarily the same figure unless you've been raised in Christian dogma. So far as I'm aware -- and as a self-important, pretty stupid prick, I may be very wrong -- Lucifer as we think of him is a Christian development. Beelzebub is adapted from Baal and so would be Old Testament but I've no idea whether his blending with the Prince of Hell would be Christian or not (well, probably, since Hell is also a product of Christian dogma), while Satan drank whisky and gambled with God in between bouts of walking the Earth and going up and down on it, whatever that's meant to mean, and is a bona fide Jewish character who isn't actually the great opponent and Lord of Darkness but is instead only as much of a cunt as God Himself.
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boris the spider,
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