They are also found in the vicinity of hot springs. Sulfur deposits are often found in areas that display elevated levels of volcanic activity. However, its association with the Devil and with Hell has more to do with geology than anything else. In fact, brimstone means ‘burning stone’, or the ‘stone that burns’. It is because of this behavior that sulfur was looked upon with an altogether untrusting eye by people a long time ago. For an ancient observer, the phenomena would have seemed like a solid had melted and started to burn with an otherworldly flame. The substance liquefies before burning with a pale blue flame. However, when exposed to a flame, it burns in a way that is quite unlike any other element that we know. In its natural solid (as a block or as a powder) form, sulfur does not react with air. It was one of the three special elements alchemists added to the classic Aristotelian system, with the other two being salt and Hydrargum or Quicksilver, which we now call Mercury.īrimstone is found naturally as a pale yellow solid which is brittle and odorless. The association of sulfur with Satanism is rather dated, and has its origins in its use as the symbol for sulfur by European alchemists. The Satanic Cross was originally the symbol for the element which was called brimstone in antiquity, and which we today know as sulfur. The Leviathan Cross/Satanic Cross – Final Thoughts.The Upside-down Cross: Sacrilege or Something Else?.

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