Abaddon

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Abaddon (Hebrew אבדון Avadon, meaning "destruction"). In Biblical poetry (Job 26:6; Proverbs 15:11) it comes to mean "place of destruction", or the realm of the dead, and is associated with Sheol. Abaddon is also one of the compartments of Gehenna.

In Revelation 9:11, it is described personified as the demon Abaddon, "Angel of the Abyss", rendered in Greek as Apollyon.

Abaddon is one of the infernal names used in Satanism, and is first in the list (only as it comes first alphabetically), and means "the destroyer." This is clearly where original Venom drummer took his stage-alias from.

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This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia.

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