I kinda thought of it as, “My native tongue is as ancient as the seas, as foundational as the mountains, as incomprehensible to you as the stars are to ants. Anyway, 2000 years ago I had to hire a guy to translate that into one of your languages just so you people could sign a fucking contract. It was a huge mess, guy took twice as long as he quoted me, legal department rejected it three times before it got approved, the whole thing went way over budget. Long story short, I’m not updating the paperwork. You can Google it if you want the fine print.”
…and using that for my next dnd campaign! Thanks!
His legal templates are all in Latin, his production code is all in COBOL, etc.
It is the christian language though… A while ago the bible was in latin.
Edit: the catholic bible
The Bible was written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek.
The Bible was translated to Latin by St Jerome in the 300s
The intent of keeping it in Latin was to keep it from regular people. The Latin is in no way original language, it was preserved as a barrier. The Catholic Church is going to have a lot to answer for on judgement day. Me too honestly, but at least I’m not trying to gatekeep the gospel.
Latin was a widely spoken language in the 300s
I think he meant the Catholic Bible
Yep, thanks
language of the catholic church more specifically then
I once experienced an episode of sleep paralysis with auditory hallucinations. I heard a deep masculine voice speaking in a guttural language that seemed just on the edge of being comprehensible to me. As if it were the primeval language from which all others sprang. The feel of the language in my ear was as familiar as my native tongue. I recognized the cadence, I could discern where one word ended and the next began, whether a sentence was a question, and so forth. But the words themselves were somehow alien.
I strained my senses trying to hear the voice more clearly. What horrible prophesy was I being given? What dreadful task have I been appointed? Am I the keymaster? The antichrist? Am I dying? Oh shit, that’s it, isn’t it? I’m dying and going to hell. Fuckfuckfuck. Um. I accept Jesus as my savior? …Buddha? …Joe Pesci?
Then I snapped out of it and the voice turned out to be the muffled sound of my neighbor’s TV. Praise be to Joe Pesci!
guttural tv sounds beyond my comprehension
Latin is the best language though
Which is why it’s spoken all over the world today!
I mean yeah, it is spoken all over the world today!
Uhh, billions of years?
The Bible is centered around just 10,000 or less years of total universal history, from what I’ve seen.
I don’t believe that, I’m just explaining the dogma here.
Haven’t God and Satan canonically always existed?
In some stories, demons (and Satan/Lucifer, their leader) were fallen angels - those who rebel against God and were cast out. This supposedly predated humans, and also means that Satan was God’s creation, like all other angels.
So Satan’s existence is Biblically fairly recent?
To be totally fair, Satan and the whole pantheon would have existed for essentially infinite time before earth came about, so I think the point still stands
It was literally a few days
In God’s time according to the Bible
If i was god id be quicker than human time lol but maybe yahweh is a slowpoke
Isn’t that what it is? Few days for god, eons for man.
Lately Hell has changed to Esperanto.
The word snake handling cults all know the real demonic language because they do all that speaking in tongues stuff. That doesn’t sound “heavenly” to me.
Satan speaks Hebrew in our world.
Honestly, I think Sumerian or Akkadian would be better but Latin does have its charms.
Ehh honestly, can’t something as powerful and as long lived as Satan just… Know all spoken languages?
Imagine Satan trying to seduce you, but unable to buy your soul because he can’t speak your language fluently. Would be a funny setup, but kinda lame
So if you were like a terminally online furry would Satan be all uwu *buys your soul*
*notices your soul* OwO what’s this?
Satan: vende mihi animam tuam pro maximo desiderio
Me: what’s this about my verandah?
Satan: vende mihi animam tuam pro maximo desiderio
Me: Sorry, I… I got to get going, I got an appointment, hope you get help with whatever the fuck you need.
Yes but how many Sumerian or Akkadian grimoires survive today in their original language?
Nowhere as many as Latin. As far as ancient languages, Egyptian magical texts definitely outnumber Akkadian and Sumerian.
A large number of surviving Akkadian texts are commercial or official records. The most famous is probably the complaint against Ea Nasir.
Unfortunately we know what latin sounds like (though most of hollywood has only a vague concept), and nobody speaks ancient Egyptian of Akkadian.
From what I gather even reading either is a nightmare…
deleted by creator
