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  What is Satan? What is Lucifer? Satan means a radical advocate for alternative new knowledge   Notice that I said ‘’what’’ is Satan not ‘’who’’ is Satan because the question of ‘’who’’ is Satan is a misunderstanding of the fact that Satan is a metaphor denoting a principle not a person.   When telling a story, a metaphor is a character used figuratively to convey an idea in a simple way such that children would be able to understand the story being told.   In many African mythologies, a wise tortoise is said to be the one that always outsmart other animals in the animal kingdom to win an award.    In one such story told by the Igbos (South East Nigeria) the story goes “once upon a time, a wealthy king wanted his beautiful daughter to get married but the condition given by the king was that whoever would marry the beautiful daughter must bring him an elephant.   All the wealthy men in the land vied to marry the king’s daughter but they all failed because they couldn’t just