>>19743820you might be right, according to encyclopedia britannica demons were defined as either good or bad messengers of the gods, it got changed to exclusively bad spirits during the 20th century. u can look it up at
archive.org.
some assume that demons are actually just 'demonized' pagan gods, the same way hitler is smeared and turned into his opposite some say our ancestral gods were turned into grotesque carricatures by jewish christianity. momotheism scratches your polytheism itch with the numerous dinstinct angels, their individual duties and characteristics. the power distribution is different, the elements similar however. the same way pagan gods of antiquity have flaws the angels too argue and fight amongst one another. in pagan faiths one finds one supreme father god also, all the lesser gods were turned into angels in christianity, in the past people used to ponder and identify with the individual characters of the angels more that we understand today, gabriel, michael etc. worshippers used to adress particular angels for their specific needs.
'DEMONOLOGY (Aai/icov, demon, genius, spirit), the branch of the science of religions which relates to superhuman beings which are not gods. It deals both with benevolent beings which have no circle of worshippers or so limited a circle as to be below the rank of gods, and with malevolent beings of all kinds. It may be noted that the original sense of " demon " was a benevolent being; but in English the name now connotes malevolence; in German it has a neutral sense, e.g. Korndamonen. Demons, when they are regarded as spirits, may belong to either of the classes of spirits recognized by primitive animism (q.v.) ; that is to say, they may be human, or non-human, separable souls, or discarnate spirits which have never inhabited a body; a sharp distinction is often drawn between these two classes [...]'
Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911
