User blog comment:SolZen321/Noa/Nexus/Next Theory/@comment-1733689-20130809053750/@comment-5527544-20130809170254

That's understandable but Mephisto or Mephistopheles, which his name comes from, is not actually from any religious source, it comes from a german novel/fairytale, I believe is called Faust, or at least has that in it's title. It's a cautionary tail about making deals with shady individuals. The name was to name the devil without having to use any of the more common and therefore uncomfortable names, however afterwards it became popular. It's the same was Dante's Divine Comedy made a lot of people think downstairs was comprised of nine circles when the whole story was a look at human sin. In fact Dante put certain priest and religious officials who were still alive at the time as characters in hell, just to tick them off.