It is difficult for modern man to establish the relationship between \u00absymbol\u00bb and \u00abdevil\u00bb, but that relationship exists.<\/b><\/p>\n
\n\tσ\u1f7bμβολον, symbolon<\/em>, symbol<\/em>, as dictionary says, means contract, trade agreement, mark, badge, sign, password, emblem, symbol, logo, omen, auspice, convention, treaty. It relates to συμβ\u03acλλω, symballo<\/em>, take, gather, gather, recruit, launch, compare, interpret, agree … συμ- or συν- , sin<\/em>-, is a Greek preposition or preverb meaning "with<\/em>" and therefore implies an idea of community, of union, of meeting.<\/p>\n \n\t“Symbol<\/em>” makes regard to a practice of protection of hospitality or completion of contracts and agreements; it consists on break a piece of pottery, metal and other materials so that each of the two parties, the traveler and the host, the seller and the buyer, stayed with one of them; on a future occasion the meeting of the two sides in one piece was the evidence of ancient hospitality established or agreement made. Then, in the legal world, the symbol was a contract between private individuals with certain legal guarantees.<\/p>\n \n\tδι\u03acβολος, diabolos<\/em>, devil<\/em>, means slanderer, detractor. It relates δια-β\u03acλλω, dia-ballo<\/em>, throwing, rift, alienate, accuse, slander, denigrate, cheat … δι\u03ac, dia<\/em>-, is exactly a preposition or adverb meaning separately, in part, through .. ; it is, the opposite of συν , sin<\/em>-, with<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tThe term is related to δι\u1f70βολ\u1f75, diabole<\/em>, that means disagreement, quarrel, false accusation, slander. \n\tSo etymologically "symbol<\/em>" is the opposite of "devil<\/em>": if the "symbols<\/em>" join together, the "devils<\/em>" separate.<\/p>\n \n\tDemons<\/em> (from Lat. daemonium, and this from Gr. δαιμ\u1f79νιον<\/em> , daimonion<\/em>, and δαιμ\u1f79ν, daimon <\/em>) deserves a separate treatment which in turn take out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is difficult for modern man to establish the relationship between \u00absymbol\u00bb and \u00abdevil\u00bb, but that relationship exists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-habits","category-language-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquitatem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquitatem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquitatem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquitatem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquitatem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquitatem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquitatem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquitatem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquitatem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\tActually the word diabole<\/em> originally referred to the position that in judicial proceedings, in court, kept who doubted the claim of the other party, which is called diabolos<\/em> , δι\u03acβολος. From this rhetorical sense step to mean "slanderer" and diabole "slander". In the Christian<\/em> context the devil was who introduces division and estrangement from the truth of God and therefore was the enemy of God.<\/p>\n