"The Morning Star" by Samantha J. Simms

What did you use on the wings? Gold leaf? He looks so innocent. It's kinda creepy.

Samantha J. Simms replies: "I used gold metallic Prismacolor marker on the wings. Thanks for all your comments! ^-^"

The wings are very pretty, as well as his hair. I REALLY like the BG too!

Beautiful. I love the wings and background.

FINALLY!!! Someone makes Lucifer beautiful. He was afterall a FREAKIN' Angel...and um somewhere I heard, he was the most beautiful thing God had set eyes on....................prior to throwing him into hell....anywho great pic.

-Ed

Beautiful! I love how you did the wings, I must try that style wings sometime. Very nice picture!

Actually, Lucifer doesn't mean "Morning Star." Lucifer means "Light Bringer" or "Light Bearer" in the same way that Christopher comes from the Latin for "Christ Bearer." (This was one of the lesser-known reasons Columbus set out to discover a route to the Orient. He believed he was destined to bring the gospel to the heathen Chinamen and Indians.)

And while Lucifer was associated with the Morning Star in Christian tradition, (I believe the Bible uses the term "Son of the Morning" in one place.) that star is not the sun but the planet Venus, which is a very bright planet and is often visible low on the eastern horizon in the hours just before dawn.

So I'm afraid that while there's no link between Satan and Ra, there IS a link between Satan and Aphrodite/Venus, the Greek/Roman goddess of love and lust.

Not sure if you know, but one of Artemis's epithets was Lucifera, the female version "Light-Bringer", altho w/ her it referrs to the Moon, not the Sun. Perhaps Lucifer was meant to be her twin brother Apollo?