This page is a sort of.. crossroads between something I made in two days and some long-standing ideas I had. The image of any of the biblical figures are so sacred, and yet have a long history of being changed to house original works of alternative narratives. And, out of Gothic tradition especially, that is where we see the best of that kind of work.

I wanted to make something in this tradition, as well. At first, I wanted it to just be this ominous, secret site with none of my name attached, this page included. It was a secret that you found and either thought 'oh, another edgy site' or 'this is kind of cool! i wonder who made this!' I decided that, since I made it and at least kind of liked how it turned out, that I would add this page and my copyright/a link back to my site. It's nothing special in design and CSS/JS tricks, but all my sites are made to house content, not look a certain way.

Lucifer is an interesting figure in the Bible, as he is very one-dimensional. His motivation, canonically, is that he is the image of the sin of pride, one of the greatest examples. He refuses to serve God on the basis that he is above humans, who God had made out of dirt. He also is very curious by nature, which is another biblical sin (in the case of this kind of grander curiosity), as it implies that God and his Creation is not enough. He ultimately fell because he did not want to live as his intended role and would rather fall than bend his knee to God. His undoing was his pride, which I took as the main inspiration for his character here. We don't know for certain much about Lucifer, but, by this point, we have a lot of works and general Church and Catholic teachings that would give us an idea. Regardless, the general consensus, as it was told to me in school, was that Lucifer post-fall tortured humanity out of jealousy from deep within that such lesser beings were worth more to God than he was (even though, at the same time, I was taught that God wept for his fallen angels, knowing that they wouldn't come back.) For reference, I have no idea if this is true, but the Catholic school and the priests both presented similar interpretations of Lucifer/evil, so it's more likely that the truth is somewhere inbetween.

In another sense, I think the site is made because I had this four year Catholic high school education that served to just churn out a Gothic writer, but then just had.. nothing else to do with that. I kept a lot of the theology in my mind since then, and of course I use it for inspirations and for artistic references, but what else? So, to solve this, I pretended to be Lucifer and get in his head to get his perspective! A very natural evolution of things.

The Latin within the project is machine translated, unfortunately. As much as I would like to say that I wrote it by hand, I instead wrote the passages to be translated in plain English acompanied by particular and precise language. I didn't worry about it being wrong, as it was mostly a statement choice to begin with, doubled with the fact that it can't really be disrespectful on a site that actively de-sacrifies God.

This would be my third, and perhaps final site in terms of how many projects I want to make. Darker and more theological musings can go here as well, and my main site can hold a lot, so there is no reason to continue outside of these boundaries. I might continue adding onto the site, keeping new things, but, as of right now, I am happy at how small but interesting this little bubble of a website is.

With that being said, I hope you enjoy the little snippets I made here and whatever else is left to come.