Cacodemon

[doomjedi]

I was just reading some esotheric material, and
found out that Cacodemon is not a nick ID created, it's
from ancient Egyptian mythology, a spirit of Evil
(there were AgatoDemons - spitirs of Good, and Cacodemons)

BTW should we add some good agatodemon monsters to Doom? :)
To coop mode? :D

[DoomedAce]

I thought it was derived from greek mythology, from the Giant Kakos (http://www.theoi.com/Kronos/Kakos.html) (Cacus in Latin).

[Falci]

Well, Shub-Niggurath from Quake 1 is actually a monster from Cthullu mythologies.

[FATAL]

Cacodemon is explained in doom wiki.

[Mute1788]

Cacodemon \Cac`o*de"mon\, n. 1. An evil spirit; a devil or demon. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

2. (Med.) The nightmare. --Dunaglison.
[1913 Webster]

Yeah! Post 200 bitches!

[PumpkinSmasher]

Yea there was a thread similar to this over at DW once.

[MasterOfPuppets]

i always thought "Caco" derived from Cacytus, the 9th level of hell.

[Ninja_of_DooM]

Nope. It's actually Cocytus MoP.:p

Check the Doom wiki. It's linked to the Astral Dreadnought but there IS another, much closer link. I can't remember what it is though.*bug*

[Mute1788]

That Doom wiki is pretty cool.

[MasterOfPuppets]

Nope. It's actually Cocytus MoP.:poh, well i was close.

[EarthQuake]

http://doom.wikicities.com/wiki/Image:Beholdercaco.jpg

[MasterOfPuppets]

the original Id guys were big D&D players.