Anagrams are fun. They are also thought provoking. Reorganise the letters and the word takes a totally different meaning. Here are three such words: Satan, Santa, and Sanat. Remove one letter and you get Sant. And the four words could not be more different from each other.

Satan refers to the opponent of God in Christian mythology. He is imagined much like Pan, a god of Greek mythology, with horns and goat-legs. He is sexual and threatening. He is the serpent. He tempts Eve, and Adam, and makes them break God’s laws. The first human couple eat the fruit of the forbidden tree and are cast out of Eden, much to Satan’s delight. In Islamic mythology, Satan is referred to as Shaitan, a class of beings, who follows Iblis, the Devil, who was once an angel who rebelled against Allah when asked to bow to Adam.