Lucifer as the contemporary fictional character started out in Neil Gaiman's Sandman series. At one point Dream (the main character) has to go to Hell to free a former lover. He discovers that Lucifer is quitting--freeing all the condemned souls and demons and locking up. Mazikeen is a demon who is in love with and totally loyal to Lucifer and follows him to earth, where he proceeds to run a nightclub in Los Angeles (and gets his own comic series written by Mike Carey. Mazikeen is drawn with one side of her face normal and the other skeletal. Her words are difficult to decipher because of this. She wears a mask to conceal her condition from the customers. I suspect that those choosing the name for their children may not be familiar with the comic character, but only with the TV version. Both comics incorporate a great range of world mythology and occult lore ranging from Shinto to Norse to Miltonian. Lucifer's long-range quest in the Carey series is to establish his own branch of the universe, one with NO gods or other supernatural beings and in which humans are forbidden to worship. The television version is no more related to the written version than television usually is.
Early in the Sandman series a magical order is run by a character obviously patterned on Crowley--although, since Crowley is mentioned as a rival, we are obviously not intended to think of Burgess as a disguised version of Crowley.
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Date: 2022-07-04 06:17 pm (UTC)Early in the Sandman series a magical order is run by a character obviously patterned on Crowley--although, since Crowley is mentioned as a rival, we are obviously not intended to think of Burgess as a disguised version of Crowley.
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