damonisch (English spelling) damonisch

Japanese: dämonisch(英語表記)damonisch
damonisch (English spelling) damonisch

...Daemons are all the forces that modern people would define as operating in the unconscious. Thus, originally, they were not necessarily associated with evil, and although there are still positive aspects, such as in the German word dämonisch, which is used as a characteristic of a genius personality, with the rise of Christianity, pagan gods were rejected, and daemons came to be identified with demons and devils. In Christian theology, which takes a dualistic stance of good and evil along with Zoroastrianism, Judaism, and Islam, a hierarchy of evil is conceived in correspondence with the hierarchy of good constituted by gods and angels, and demons were organized exclusively within the latter.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "dämonisch" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…現代人であれば無意識領域に働くと規定するようないっさいの諸力がダイモンであった。 このように元来は必ずしも邪悪さとは結びつかない存在者で,天才的人格の特性として用いられるドイツ語デモーニッシュdämonischなどに積極的側面が残っているものの,キリスト教の台頭とともに異教の神々は排され,ダイモン=デーモンも魔神や悪魔と同一視されるようになった。ゾロアスター教,ユダヤ教,イスラム教などと並んで善悪二元論の立場をとるキリスト教神学では,神や天使の構成する善の位階に対応して,悪の位階を構想するが,デーモンはもっぱら後者の中に組織されたのである。…

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