Why do devils have horns?

i'm doing a research paper on why angels have wings and devils have horns (in pictures of course). And I do not find many suggestions on why the "devil" is depicted in most pictures with horns...

Why do devils have horns?
The true answer is the depection of the devil you see in modern day pop culture is false and established by the Advertising Industry.





Satan(the Devil) was a fallen angel, theirs no mention of the devil with a pointy tail, horns or bat wings, Satan does though shapeshift usually into serpents. The Passion of the Christ movie has the best interpritation of the Devil.
Reply:I believe the depiction of horns on the devil comes from the relationship with the Goat of Medes I believe. It was an old Satanic sigil created along time ago when the Yezidi people still worshipped him in silence. Afraid of being killed by the christian mass when the holy wars were going on. Look up the Sigil Of Baphomet and you should be able to find more information.
Reply:to stab you in the back
Reply:In Greek mythology certain beings were represented as being goat like. (see Pan) So nasty people had horns like a goat.
Reply:That is from the early christian church. they used the depictions that they could find of old nature spirits and pagan drawings of cerinious. also from the Knights Temple when they fell out of favor with the church. The Knights Temple symbol is an inverted pentagram with the face of Bohapmote ( a goats face)fitted in the pentagram.


There are also pictures of demons and devils with black wings.
Reply:to scare us
Reply:That is just an artist impression to intimidate the viewers. They are actually fallen angels. Don't you read the Bible? So, do you think Saints have halo? I don't think so... That is just to draw people's attention to the face. Like a beautiful woman wearing a hat.
Reply:comes down to the pagan demi- god pan which has been classified as demon, as well the goat was once said to be a symbol of the devil from also which the horns give it an evil quality.
Reply:Angels have wings so they can fly to you when you need them, and devils have horns to stab you in the back...who knows
Reply:Are you Horny, baby?
Reply:Is it to give him a bestial appearance (along with cloven hooves, tail etc) so he appears less human/more animalistic? And therefore, beneath "God"
Reply:Satan was cherubim, and the bible says cherubim have horns. There was also Jesus saying he would separate his sheep from the goats.





A good question is: Why are angels mainly depicted as female when the biblical ones are all males?
Reply:So you have something to hold onto, on the way downnnnnnnn!!!!!
Reply:Goats, BEasts
Reply:ARTISTIC LICENCE .THEY ORIGINATE AS THEY WERE BASED ON THE aNUNAKI .BUT THEY WERE LIZARDS AND MOST DEMONS LOOK LIKE THEM ,


THE OLD GOD OF nATURE WAS CALLED pAN ,HE WAS HALF MAN HALF GOAT,with the change over of Pagan ism to Christianity Pan was discredited and became evil politically speaking.so he became the devil and that is why the devil has horns.
Reply:Several ancient pagan gods are depicted with horns. Faun, saytrs, the god Cernunnos, and various shamans have worn horns to better understand the animals their tribe hunts. This might also explain the goat hooves that the Devil is sometimes portrayed to have. Early Christianity demonized the older religions of Europe in order to gain converts, much the way Republicans demonize Democrats these days. What's with the forked tail?
Reply:horns look evil.
Reply:THEY REPRESENT THE HORNED ANIMALS THAT ABOUNDED THE LAND IN THE PAST CENTURIES.


NOT EVIL AS SOME THINK
Reply:During the early centuries of Christianity, the Greek god Pan was adopted as the motif for representing the devils. Pan was a satyr - a human with the legs and horns of a goat.





This served multiple purposes. First, it demonized Pan (who was not too terrible a god), scaring people from the ancient pagan ways and supporting what Paul had said about the pagan gods being demons (1 Cor. 10:20). Second, it fit the symbolism of Christians being sheep while sinners were goats (see Matt. 25:31-33). Third, it may have also demonized sexuality, which Pan partly embodied but which early Christians tended to think negatively of.





Whether goats particularly represent a particularly bestial nature, I don't know, though their adoption into Satanic imagery suggests that this is so. Satan is associated with the Beast through the writings in Revelation; later the inverted cross would be either adopted by or ascribed to Satanism.





Previously it was the cross of Peter, based on the traditional story that he had asked to be crucified upside down but more importantly because it looked like a sword, which Peter had used in defense of Jesus. Just as the upright cross is a symbol of the heaven-oriented spirituality of traditional Christianity (but also the ascetic denial of earthly pleasures that is occasionally encouraged), the inverted cross is a symbol of practical concerns (but also lusts of the flesh - the beast nature).





Which is why I like the sun cross that was adopted by the Gnostics - with its equal-length bars, it symbolizes wholeness and embraces all aspects of existence, both spiritual and physical.
Reply:The characterize him as an animal.
Reply:makes them more reminiseant of a serpent
Reply:Most probably because their wives ran around on them! HA!
Reply:Because devils are just ugly mutant unicorns.
Reply:'cause they're horny devils... hahahaha!!!
Reply:Many of the Pagan Gods have horns, tusks or antlers and were often depicted as part animal. Mainly fertility God and Gods of the Hunt. For example: Pan and the satyrs (Greek), Herne (British), Cernunnos (Celtic), Pashupati (Hindu), Caerwiden (Welsh).


The Church made demon and Satan to look like these Gods to discourage their worship. Thus demonizing fertility and Nature Gods of old.





http://www.sciencemusings.com/blog/image...





http://paganinstitute.org/images/Deities...





http://www.lugodoc.demon.co.uk/SHRINE.HT...





http://visionaryrevue.com/webmedia2/jofm...



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