Mammon (theology)

Mammon is a concept in religion that basically sums down to an excessive love of material wealth, often to the point of worshipping it as a false idol - although largely symbolic Mammon has been viewed as a sentient vaguely humanlike personification of greed: he is often seen as a type of fertility god that people worship, taking the "love of money" to its logical extreme (i.e. the worship of money).

Mammon may actually of been an actual deity at some point in pre-Christianity, like many demons of scripture (such as Baal and Moloch) but either degenerated into a false idol and demon with the advent of Christianity.