In this view of the motives of Satan in refusing homage or worship of humanity, an appeal is made strictly to the material origins of Satan and Adam. The precise idea or views vary between accounts in Hasidic, Christian, and Islamic texts, but each of them stresses hiraeth, origins, descent, lineage, or nascence.
In Hasidic and Christian apocrypha, Satan asserts as his conditions of birth in fire, fire of fire, spirit, or fire and spirit, and contrasts it with Adam in clay, mud, or dirt. In one apocrypha, it is temporal descent. In the Islamic account, Satan is of a lineage risen from fire and Adam is of a lineage risen from spit and grime.
On this view, Satan is the original nativist, linealist, or primevalist.
The key difference between this view and that of the Obdurate or Illuminated ideas of motive is that the Traditional view is strictly focused on material origins without a juxtaposition to another layer or level of justification. In the Illuminated view, for example, the fact that Satan and Adam differ in their ancestry and genealogy is secondary in relevance to the issue of acknowledging divinity. In the Traditional view of motive, Satan appeals to the material origins of himself and humanity but does not incorporate a further concern about his relation to divinity. In this view, the sole justification is the origins of Satan or that of his own lineage.
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[Forthcoming; though it should be said that this view is the mainstream view in Islam, and the apparent view in Christian and Hasidic apocrypha]
