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That's not Satan, that's the snake. Satan's just an asshole who does God's bidding testing and tempting people like he did with Job. And it's not the same as the nake or lucifer.
The 'snake' was the one who told Eve that God was lying to them, and that they would not die if they ate the forbidden fruit. This one is the cool guy who's the equivalent of Prometheus.
Lucifer isn't even in the bible at all. It's a Roman mythical explanation for Venus because it was something bright that appeared sometimes in the sky, and it somehow got conflated with the bad versions of the "morning star" mentioned in the bible later. Funny enough, Jesus is also referred as "morning star" too. Also the King of Babylon, I think. "Morning star" may be just a saying to describe a characteristic, not a character, like "you are a rising star".
Good point, lucifer is a word used in some translations of the bible though, this book Isaiah was originally written in Hebrew and the word was heilel, and this was translated to latin as lucifer. It was referring to a Babylonian king, not the devil, or the fallen angel, likely Nebuchadnezzar. Some translation use this or similar wording.
Lucifer is latin and means light bringer, lux means light, ferre means bringer.
The serpent was cursed to live as an animal on it's belly. So not the same person as Nebuchadnezzar.
Different devils (from the ancient Greek word diabolos) also not the same person, or one person