In the Satanic narrative, I find that Dante serves as a syncretic milestone for fusing the Greco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian afterlives together (the latter being a syncretization of Persian and Egyptian influences). The next syncretic milestone can be found in John Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost. This was written in the 1600s, so about 300 … Continue reading Lecture 8: The Adversarial Algorithm and Pandæmonium