Talk:Atlach-Nacha/@comment-27550231-20170130152945/@comment-29602226-20170130173500

Daemon is Greek for "demon". But for the Greek, daemons weren't always evil: The word was originally used for gods when they acted in a scary and/or mysterious way; for example, if you thought a god was trying to punish you but you didn't knew why or what god (like Apollo punished Thebes with a plague because of Edipus's parricide and incest, and nobody knew which god was doing that or why he was doing that, so he was called "daemon").

Later, the word was used for beings who ranked in between mortals and true gods, like messenger spirits, spirit minions of the gods, guardian angels or even human souls...

Christianism adopted the word for the Hebrew/Mesopotamic evil spirits.