Rosanne
As you know the Christin church borrowed the image of Pan and the Horned One for the Fallen Angel Lucifer (which was the star Venus anyway), Satan.hippiewitchie said:I understand some of the concepts of the Devil in traditional tarots: Bondage to materialism/ greed/ addictions/ excess...
I cannot wrap my head around those same concepts when confronted with Pagan decks where the "Devil" is the "Horned One", "Pan", "the Guardian" or some other Horned God or a Shamanistic type image (Merlin Tarot and LLewelyn come to mind)
So there has come down to us a mixed message. It is hard to untangle the blended image.
As far as I can tell if you are Pagan you do not follow a monotheist concept.
You follow a Polytheist/Pantheist/Animist and possibly mythological view of things. Satan and the devil have been put in a soup with things that contain the words repress and despise, hatred, anti life, and fear. So it seems that Pagan beliefs deny this concept and think you are responsible for your actions etc - not the tempter Satan. So I would look at Pagan concepts and myth like Pan and the Horned One as a necessity of life - as an energetic opposing force or resistance, some times a trickster and sometimes a fertility symbol and sometimes a hero. He is the life force energy opposite- no really in Tandem with female deities. Quiet different to 'evil' and much more freeing.
~Rosanne