Talk:Abaddon (demon)

Abaddon, Abaddon (demon), and Apollyon: there's much confusion and overlap that needs sorting out. —Charles P. (Mirv) 17:27, 18 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unsourced item from article[edit]

195.195.201.2 originally added this to Abaddon:

The spirit "Abbadon" is also a demon of early British paganism (a huge wooden structure would be built and hundreds of captured soldiers burnt alive inside it to summon the spirit at wartime)^{[citation needed]}.

I can find no sources for this statement. -- Jake 18:02, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Popular Culture[edit]

Abbadon in Popular culture, he is a part the main plot of the MMO game Guild Wars Prophecies and Nightfall. Including mission like Abbadon's Mouth [1] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.24.44.146 (talk) 18:48, 10 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]

I'm not sure of the significance of this?? Does the use of the word in one video game count as a presence in a popular culture? Not being argumentative, just raising the question.

PainMan 21:58, 26 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tagged for lack of citations[edit]

The article contains no proper citations/references. The in-text Biblical citations do not, in my opinion, offer enough support for the assertions made.

Therefore I've tagged the article with the "refimprove" tag.

Article could also use a rewrite to bring it up to standards.

These statements:

Abaddon (Hebrew:אבדון,Avaddon - destruction) , in demonology, was chief of the demons of the seventh hierarchy. He was called The Destroyer

Neither the "seventh hierarchy" is explained nor is the source for the byname "The Destroyer." Is it a back formation from the Hebrew noun or vice versa? The editor leaves us to figure it out for ourselves.

Added alternative meaning of abyss to etymology from Webster's New World Dictionary & Thesaurus v.2.0 1998. Since I've yet to see a footnote inside etymology I didn't add one.

PainMan 21:47, 26 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Torchwood[edit]

In the Series 1 finale, Abbadon is released by the Torchwood team when they open the Rift. It is destroyed when it tries to absorb Jack Harkness's life energy.--uɐɔlnʌɟoʞǝɹɐs 16:45, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]