I have seen on the net that these words are believed to have "almost the same meaning" or at least to be related to each other. It is quite common that people mean that similar words have the same meaning, but it is necessary to go to the roots of these words, to the origin, to see if they are really related to each other or not.
As an example, we can take the word Father, which is in Swedish Fader and in German Vater and so on. It existed already in the Proto-Indo-European language as *pəter- and then in Sanskrit as pitar- so we can see that this is an old word that has been spread in many countries. Here we can say that the Swedish word Fader and the German word Vater are "the same word" and it also has the same meaning.
There are other words that originally "are the same word" but when they spread out into different countries they have changed in a way that makes it difficult to see that they originally have been "the same".
And there are words that look very similar to each other, but they are not related to each other. They just happen to be similar. That seems to be the case with all those "demonic" words that I lined up in the headline.
Languages belong to different families and in English, we have both German and Latin words, but both are Indoeuropean. -ow in the word window has the same meaning as the word eye, (from PIE root *okw- "to see"). So window equals to wind-eye, which is not easy to see. So to know if two words have the same origin we have to take a look in an etymological dictionary, which I have done with these words that I mentioned in the headline. You can also do that! You will find much more than just the short texts that I have made here.
Saturn
Old English Sætern, a Roman god, also "most remote planet" (then known), from Latin Saturnus, originally a name of an Italic god of agriculture, possibly from Etruscan.
An ancient Italic deity, popularly believed to have appeared in Italy in the reign of Janus, and to have instructed the people in agriculture, gardening, etc., thus elevating them from barbarism to social order and civilization. His reign was sung by the poets as "the golden age."
Saturday is related to the planet Saturn.
On the bad side of this good agriculture god, there is a story that he ate his children as also the Greek god Kronos or Cronus. At that time Saturn was the planet that was mostly cold and most far away. This dictionary does not know the exact origin of the word.
In astrology Saturn is equal to be hindered, to be blocked and it is also symbolic of stones, materia and rigid structures. But it only means obstacles and it is not evil.
Anyway, these rigid structures and cold heaviness have given Saturn a central place within certain groups that are being called satanic, probably because they want to have control of everything using rigid structures.
Satan is from Hebrew word satan "adversary, one who plots against another,"from root s-t-n "one who opposes, obstructs, or acts as an adversary." It got translated to Greek Satanas and then to Latin Satan. At that time the Hebrew Satan was a part of God, one of God's angels, to test people (he was not against God).
Obstruction is what Satan and Saturn have in common, but in these old times it was not yet "the devil" that later religion has made from it. Words usually change meaning when time passes. Satan was translated into Devil. I get the impression that it is the Christian Church that has built up the fear of a devil that should be the opposite of god. Of course good and bad can be seen as opposites, but anger, greed, fear etc. can also be seen as the opposite of a good, divine life.
Wasn´t there any demonic behaviour at that old time?
There was a child sacrifice ceremony in Babylon and it was called Molek or Moloch. It was the Kanaan people who made offerings to Baal.
Various old people have had ceremonies with human sacrifice.
Sabbath
Old English sabat "Saturday as a day of rest," as observed by the Jews, from Latin sabbatum, from Greek sabbaton, from Hebrew shabbath, properly "day of rest," from shabath "he rested."
From this we have the Italian word Sabato for saturday.
Sabbatean
This word comes from the name Sabbatai Zevi, who was a rabbi and kabbalist from Smyrna. He was the founder of the Sabbatean movement, whose followers were to be known as "converts" or crypto-Jews. Sabbatai claimed to be the Jewish Messiah.
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