"Sulphur is a yellow non-metallic element, found in the free state.
It is used to harden rubber used for making tyres.
It is also used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, pesticides and drugs'This element is commonly associated with the Devil or Satan that is. Many people have accounts of smelling sulphur(rotten-egg smell) when witnessing the Devil. Piqued by curiosity, I was determined to find out if this is found in the bible, flipping and pouring through the endless pages of yellow, my landed on this:
About a century or two before the birth of Christ. Satan almost certainly gets his rotten scent from his underworld lair, described in the Book of Revelation as a "lake of burning sulphur." Hell as such doesn't appear in the Old Testament, but the book of Genesis does recount how God "rained down burning sulphur on Sodom and Gomorrah." The idea of a sulfurous Hell ruled by an archvillain called Satan seems to have arisen at some point in the period between when the two sacred texts were written—probably in the first or second centuries B.C. The Apocryphal Books of Enoch, for example, talk about a place of punishment with "rivers of fire" and "a smell of sulphur."
The idea that Satan had a strong odor is consistent with ancient attitudes about smells. A connection between sweet, dry smells and the divine goes back to the Greek epics, and it shows up in precise terms in the Old Testament: The Lord tells Moses to prepare an anointing oil "blended as by the perfume" consisting of liquid myrrh, cinnamon, cassia, and olive oil. Rotten-smelling gases like hydrogen sulfide would have been associated with moral corruption.
Sources: www.slate.com
