When people think of an epic battle between good and evil, often times (in America, at least), people think of the Christian and Jewish God triumphing over Satan or Lucifer.
According to the Bible, Lucifer was an angel in the sky until he questioned God's power, thinking that he could do a better job at creation and, overall, being God. So, Lucifer got greedy, and decided to test the waters of becoming more powerful than God. Until the hour of Satan's downfall, God thought him to beautiful. But Satan had been manipulative and "evil," attempting to take away God's power and keep it for himself. The attempt was unsuccessful. God smited him, and damned him beneath the earth. This was the beginning of evil and of hell.
Lucifer or Satan has depicted temptation, of greed and lust, envy and pride. Many times, the "Devil" as he is called is a symbol of the "evil" archetype. Whereas God is seen as the all-knowing and who guides us on the right path, therefore a "good" symbol.
Those who stray off of the "right path" to God are said to have given into the Devil's evil.
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