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2 unusual facts about Lucifer's Hammer


Dan Alderson

As "Dan Forrester" he is a prominent character in Lucifer's Hammer.

Springville, California

In the science fiction novel Lucifer's Hammer, written by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, fragments of a comet strike the Earth, causing massive tidal waves to destroy most of the planet's coastal cities.


Andrei Belyanin

The Age of Saint Skiminok ("Век Святого Скиминока", 1998) - the final book of the trilogy has the protagonist of the series taking on Lucifer himself, while trying to find a trace of his kidnapped son and, finally, sort out all the women in his life.

Azathoth

August Derleth, in his novel The Lurker at the Threshold, depicts the entity as a leader in a cosmic upheaval akin to Lucifer's rebellion in Christian mythology.

Battle of Acapulco

Two of the ships of their squadron, Victoire and Lucifer, in Manzanillo took four hundred Mexican troops under the command of General Apolonio Montenegro, and on 11 September, landed without opposition at Acapulco.

Bionic Jive

Also during this period, the band achieved some airplay, shot music videos for ATYS songs “Pump” and “I Shot Lucifer,” and had music featured in the video games ATV Quad Power Racing 2.

Brother Lucifer

Brother Lucifer is the fourth album by the American stoner/doom metal band Serpent Throne.

Characters of Blake's 7

In 2012, Big Finish approached Paul Darrow to write a Blake's 7 novel set after Gauda Prime dealing with the life of Avon after the death of Blake; Darrow agreed and his novel Lucifer was released in both printed and audiobook (read by Darrow, ISBN 978-1-78178-110-4) form in June 2013.

Charles Manson Superstar

Olivier Messiaen's "Death and Resurrection," Bobby Beausoleil's "Lucifer Rising," Krzysztof Penderecki's "Apocalypsis," and Anton LaVey's "The Satanic Mass," and Manson's own songs "Clang Bang Clang" and "Mechanical Man" from the album LIE The Love and Terror Cult, were played during the film.

Count Baltar

To this end, the Imperious Leader installs Baltar as the commander of a Cylon basestar, with an "I.L.-series" Cylon named Lucifer (body by Felix Silla, voice by Jonathan Harris) as Baltar's second in command; the two other basestars in Baltar's taskforce are also subservient to him.

Cremation of Care

Jones claimed that the Cremation of Care was an "ancient Canaanite, Luciferian, Babylon mystery religion ceremony".

Cross The T's and Gouge Your I's

"Lucifer Recommends", named after the production company Sum 41's then manager Greig Nori formed with frontman Deryck Whibley, endorses new Island/Def Jam signing Autopilot Off.

Dead in Tombstone

The film begins with a narration on the West, or the "New Frontier", described by the narrator — Lucifer (Mickey Rourke), one of the seven Princes of Hell, — as a "heartless, lawless viper pit", contrary to popular belief that it is made up of "god-fearing" good folk.

Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle

They fight Lucifer, and Goku uses the Kamehameha blast to destroy Lucifer's Princess-powered laser cannon (the full-moonlight is to be used to destroy the sun, and begin the Reign of Darkness), and kills Lucifer.

The owner of the castle, Lucifer, pretends to treat her as a guest, until it becomes time to awaken the Sleeping Princess.

Emmanuel Hiel

Benoit set some of Hiel's verses to music, notably in his oratorios Lucifer (performed in London at the Royal Albert Hall and elsewhere) and De Schelde ("The Scheldt").

Ghouls'n Ghosts

The player controls the knight Arthur, who must advance through a series of eerie levels and defeat a number of undead and demonic creatures in his quest to restore the souls stolen by Lucifer (Loki in the English-language Mega Drive and Sega Master System versions), including the soul of his lover, Princess Prin Prin.

Good Time Warrior

Good Time Warrior is the sixth album by Lucifer's Friend, an album in which Mike Starrs, formerly of Colosseum II, replaced John Lawton on vocals for the first time.

Great Evil Beast

This power was so huge, it caused Hell's main three figures - Lucifer, Azazel and Beelzebub - to form a triumvirate to defend themselves should the Great Darkness decide it wanted Hell as its realm.

Gregory of Elvira

Kruger, Lucifer, Bischof von Calaris, und das Schisma der Luciferianer (Leipzig, 1886), 76 sq.

Heavy metal fashion

Folk metal, viking metal, black metal and power metal fans often grow long thick hair and beards reminiscent of a stereotypical Viking, Saxon and Celt, and wear Thor's Hammer pendants and other pagan symbols.

Hesperus

"Heosphoros" in the Greek Septuagint and "Lucifer" in Jerome's Latin Vulgate were used to translate the Hebrew "Helel" (Venus as the brilliant, bright or shining one), "son of Shahar (Dawn)" in the Hebrew version of Isaiah 14:12.

Jeffrey Burton Russell

He is most noted for his five-volume history of the concept of the Devil: The Devil (1977), Satan (1981), Lucifer (1984), Mephistopheles (1986) and The Prince of Darkness (1988).

Kefka Palazzo

Originally designed by Yoshitaka Amano, he appears in Final Fantasy VI as a clown-like, nihilistic psychopath who acts as the game's main antagonist and as the God of Magic, physically transforming into a Lucifer-esque fallen angel.

Lilin in popular culture

In the comic book series Lucifer, the Lilim are an army of demons descended from Lilith, fathered by numerous male entities, including angels, who are eventually led by Lucifer's former consort, Mazikeen.

Lucifer

In what is known as the Taxil hoax, he claimed that supposedly leading Freemason Albert Pike had addressed "The 23 Supreme Confederated Councils of the world" (an invention of Taxil), instructing them that Lucifer was God, and was in opposition to the evil god Adonai.

Lucifer the Lightbearer

The name was chosen because "Lucifer, the ancient name of the Morning Star, now called Venus, seems to us unsurpassed as a cognomen for a journal whose mission is to bring light to the dwellers in darkness."

Luciferianism

Rather, Lucifer in this context is seen as one of many Morning Star, a symbol of enlightenment, independence and human progression, and is often used interchangeably with similar figures from a range of ancient beliefs, such as the Greek titan Prometheus or the Jewish figure Lilith.

In some cases, Lucifer is seen as a rebel angel or opposing God who sought to move humankind forward in defiance of Jehovah’s will to keep them ignorant and childlike.

Marc Hempel

Hempel's art has also appeared in Marvel Fanfare, Epic Illustrated, Heavy Metal, Jonny Quest, Tarzan the Warrior, Clive Barker’s Hellraiser, Flinch, My Faith in Frankie, The Dreaming, Lucifer, and Disney Adventures.

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

The "White Paternoster" was used by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) as a mockery of the mass by Lucifer, described as the "Black Paternoster" in his narrative poem The Golden Legend (1851).

Mormon cosmology

During this pre-existence, two plans were said to have been presented, one championed by Lucifer (Satan) that would have involved loss of moral agency, and another championed by God the Father.

Orchesis Dance Company: Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Robert Moses, of the San Francisco based company Robert Moses’ Kin, choreographed his piece called Lucifer’s Prance for Orchesis' 2008 production.

Robert Dick

Then he obtained a copy of Hugh Miller's Old Red Sandstone (published in 1841), and he began systematically collecting with hammer and chisel the fossils from the Caithness flags.

Sand Land

:Beelzebub, named after the biblical demon of the same name, is the son of Lucifer.

Santa Maria del Parto a Mergellina, Naples

In the first chapel on the right of the altar is the image of St Michael Archangel spearing the throat of a serpentine Lucifer, commonly known as the Devil of Mergellina, traditionally believed to depict an infamous young Neapolitan woman who had tempted Diomede Carafa, then bishop of Ariano.

The Devil's Child

While a priest is performing the last rites, Lucifer appears, and says that he will spare her daughter's life if she promises that one day Nikki will bear his son, the Antichrist.

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

However, the novel is not a continuation (e.g. What the Dead Men Say and the novel Ubik) or expansion (e.g. the novella and later novel Vulcan's Hammer) of an earlier and shorter work.

The Vulcan Dub Squad

The LP comes on like a meld of Arthur Lee's Love, The Smiths and The Kinks, The Wedding Present and Thor's Hammer (60s legends from Iceland), while at the same time offering transitional coherence reminiscent of 50/60's Bollywood scores.

To Reign in Hell

From the illiaster came consciousness that resulted in the firstborn angels: Yaweh, Satan, Michael, Lucifer, Raphael, Leviathan and Belial.

Toninho do Diabo

Antônio Aparecido Firmino (born in Jundiaí, date unknown), better known as Toninho do Diabo (Tom the Devil), is an alleged Brazilian religious, who identifies himself as a disciple of the devil, and calls itself the Ambassador of Lucifer on Earth and is therefore considered by the media as one of the greatest leaders of Brazil Satanists.

Up from Paradise

Undaunted by its failure, he revamped it as a musical, a retelling of God's battle with Lucifer for control of Adam and Eve as chronicled in the Book of Genesis.

Vincent of Beauvais

treats of the created world, of light, color, the four elements, Lucifer and his fallen angels and the work of the first day.

William Edward David Allen

He was a close friend of Mosley and helped him to pursue his fascist ambitions from behind the scenes, by supporting him financially and by contributing mainly anonymous articles to The Blackshirt, including "The Letters of Lucifer".


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