Samael
A
Gnostic god and, in
Judaism, the evil
angel who comes to be identified with
SATAN.
Samael is actually a name of a
kingdom of the
Aramaens, in the area of
Syria in the 2nd millenium B.C.E. A variation of the name is
Sammael.
The name has also been associated with "
Dread God," a
Semitic version of the
Asiatic Sama,
Samana, or
Samavurti, the "
Leveller." In the
Sama Veda he is called a
storm god, clothed in black clouds.