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Origin and evolutions

Lucifer means in Latin “carrying ( fere ) light ( lux )”. This name originates in the Latin translation, in the Vulgate, of the Book of Isaïe 14.12 by Saint Jerome, which translated the name Heylel (name of the planet Venus in Hebrew) by Lucifer .

Among Romans, the god Lucifer ( Phosphoros among Greeks) personified knowledge, through a figure which mixed with the attributes of Hermes and of Apollon.

Transposed in the tradition of the Christianity, Lucifer is the name allotted in the first times of Christianity to Jesus.

It is only with the Middle Ages that this name will indicate largest and brilliance of all the Ange S. But the latter, according to the " myth of the fall of the angels rebelles" , was pushed by its pride to rebel against God, because he wanted to shine more than his creator. He became then Satan (l'" Adversaire"), king of the " demon s" - which is the angels which, with him, revolted and fell - and enemy of humanity and God.

Divergences of interpretations

There exist several visions metaphysics of the figure of Lucifer (which is the “carrier of the light”, métaphoriquement “of the knowledge” and thus “of the Hybris”): it can be comparable in Satan (which is the “adversary”, the antithesis of God) by some whereas others distinguish some.

For the first indeed, Lucifer remains a being created by God and thus cannot in no case to be its opposite. It thus cannot, accordingly, being compared to the figure of Satan. He is then rather opposed to Michael, chief of the angels faithful to God.

For some of those which share this vision, it is by a bad interpretation of Isaïe 14.12 that Lucifer was connected has Satan. This passage of the Bible speaks indeed about the fall of Lucifer and a " adversaire" , and two interpretations are possible from there: either the text refers to the king who reigned on Babylon at the time, or to Samaël which went down in Hell (nondeposed, it went down by choice). It moreover is on several occasions indicated, and by Jesus him even, “the Lord of the Earth”.

In alchemy

The Alchimie compares Lucifer to the Devil, not in the popular and malefic form, but on the contrary in its form rédemptrice: It represents the Raw stone, initial matter of the work, which, under its aspect cheap and pushing back, does not remain about it less the pillar of all Work, because concealing in its center the light to be followed, the star which the magi followed to arrive at the child philosophal.

Rumanian interpretation

In Rumanian Luceafăr represents the planet Venus (and Lucifer wants to say the Devil). The peasants also associate it with a certain number of stars. It also refers also to the giant Hypérion. Often the " Luceafăr" animate the demon S, but it does not represent the absolute evil or the Devil ( Dracul in Rumanian).

Its etymological origin comes from the verb luci and the adjective luciu . This verb is not translated into French but one can approximate it by gloss in the expression " this object found its gloss of antan ".

In current language one says however that an object is lucios when this one is enough clean to reflect the ambient light. The typical example of such an object is the body of a beautiful car. On the contrary, the glare of the sun says strălucirea soarelui and in general strălucire wants to say brightness . However the moon and the luceafăr make only " luci " because they emit less light. stră comes from Latin extra and is an element of composition which marks in Rumanian the distant origin and the seniority.

With not confusing with the verb lumina which wants to say to illuminate , to light or to make so that the light spreads , for example by opening the window as in its luminat camera which wants to say the room cleared up/illuminated .

Several stars have this name:

Venus the morning:

Luceafărul-of-Dimineaţă (of Morning)
Luceafărul-of-Ziuă (of Day)
Luceafărul-Porcilor (of the Pigs)
Luceafărul-Boului (of the Bull)

Venus the evening:

Luceafărul-of-Seară (of Evening)
Luceafărul-of-Noapte (of Night)
Luceafărul-Ciobanilor (of the Shepherds)

the star Véga of the constellation Quadrant:

Luceafărul-concealment-Pond-of-Miezul-Nopţii (the Large one of Midnight)
Luceafărul-concealment-Frumos (Beautiful)

the star Aldébaran of the constellation of the Bull:

Luceafărul-Porcesc (which makes as a Pig)
Luceafărul-Porcar (which deals with the Pigs)

the star Sirius of the constellation Large Dog (Cainele Mare):

Luceafărul-of-Ziuă (of Day)
Luceafărul-DIN-Zori (of the beginning of the Day with the rising of the sun)

the star (?) also said Hypérion:

Luceafărul-concealment-Pond-of-Noapte (the Large one of Night)

Mihai Eminescu wrote a poem with this name which is among most famous of its works. An young woman falls in love with " Luceafăr" who will metamorphose himself and transform himself into an young man with golden hair. The girl will ask him to come to marry with her on ground what the latter (also called Hyperion) refuses. When the girl tells him " me I am alive and you you are mort" , this last refuses to believe it by saying that it can see the things with prospect for in top and it says to the girl that she does not know what awaits it on ground (i.e. death).

Mihai Eminescu in the Sus poem in curtea ECA domnească (there high in the garden of the lords/kings) identifies three types of eyes:

negru înfundat and husband : inserted and large blacks, for a character describes like cruel and cold
of jib : of fire, for characters who are described like girls pale and beautiful the eyes emit light
lucii and multi : glosses and many, they are described at the end of the poem like magnet " even the lumière" and sitted with a large white table in a large living room with much of guests who have the soft word

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