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Originally Posted by liveandlove
here is just a small bit of whjat is out there
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Did you bother to read it?
So, Wikipedia does not support your assertion.
Your other reference, which isn't referenced, has no references, just a bunch of speculation:
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Certainly I cannot speak for all Gnostics in regard to the “Lucifer” issue. I can only speak for myself and for what I know about the Gnostic tradition and the history of religious ideas. I know for a fact that “Lucifer” originally was the name of a god in ancient Roman mythology. Lucifer was the son of the dawn goddess named Aurora; and the Romans named the planet we call “Venus” after him. Among the Romans Lucifer was identified with the morning star; and the word Lucifer literally means “light-bearer.”
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_%28mythology%29
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In Roman mythology, Aurora, goddess of the dawn, renews herself every morning and flies across the sky, announcing the arrival of the sun. Her parentage was flexible: for Ovid, she could equally be Pallantis, signifying the daughter of Pallas,[1] or the daughter of Hyperion.[2] She has two siblings, a brother (Sol, the sun) and a sister (Luna, the moon). Rarely Roman writers[3] imitated Hesiod and later Greek poets and named Aurora as the mother of the Anemoi (the Winds), who were the offspring of Astraeus, the father of the stars.
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Odd, no son named Lucifer.
Strangely, Wikipedia fan, you didn't bother to reference Wikipedia's exhaustive list of Roman gods and goddesses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_deities
Do, point out for me where "Lucifer" is listed there.