The 5th deadly sin is
GLUTTONY and is represented by the demon Beelzebub (also known as The
Lord of the Flies). Beelzebub began his career as a Canaanite deity who
name in Hebrew (Baal Zebub) meant Lord of the Flies, and then later came
to be equated with Satan. As a sin he rules over all excessive
eating and drinking.
The endless maw of the
glutton is never satiated, and he or she is never satisfied. The
glutton lives to eat and soon escalates to forgetting gratitude. The
pursuit goes on and leads to a specific damnation: the glutton in hell
will dine on toads and be forced to drink putrid water. The
opposing virtue is Sobriety.
