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Azazel
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Not who you're looking for? Others named Azazel: fictional character in Marvel Comics · fictional demon in the TV series Supernatural · DC Comics character from The Sandman · 2002 mini-serial directed by Aleksandr Adabashyan
In the Hebrew Bible, the name Azazel represents a desolate place where a scapegoat bearing the sins of the Jews was sent during Yom Kippur. During the late Second Temple period, Azazel came to be viewed as a fallen angel responsible for introducing humans to forbidden knowledge, as described in the Book of Enoch. His role as a fallen angel partly remains in Christian and Islamic traditions.
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