Traditional depiction of Satan in scenes of the Last Judgment during the late 15th c.:Like some kind of diabolical port-a-potty...even though I could elaborate for days on the simile, I won't. See how the ground is divided into parallel levels in the background? The registers remind me of the relief decorations on Roman sarcophagi. They depict the fate of the damned in hell. It seems to combine several of the cardinal sins, the most obvious being gluttony, avarice, and sloth.
Not a whole lot turns up on the internet about Binsfeld's classification of demons in conjunction with the seven deadly sins (but you can always count on Wikipedia), but I thought it was an interesting tangent nonetheless, especially because Beelzebub is the demon associated with gluttony and the fact that the name has come to be synonymous with Satan (in the New Testament). In the Old Testament, however, he was the Philistine god of Ekron 25 miles outside of Jerusalem, his name, which means "lord of the flies," was probably bestowed not because he brought the flies (originally, he was thought to be a sun god, and flies typically pester during the daytime) but because he was invoked to drive away the flies at a sacrifice.
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