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I wouldn't even buy into before Roman Christianity, as prior to that Hell, Satan, etc. were all temporary things. Hell was a place one was interred until one was spiritually ready for heaven. Satan, as I said before, was an adversary chosen by God to test the faithful. That is the Hebrew version of Satan.
Again, Satan is not sanskrit. You are misunderstanding the root of "sata." The root "sata" exists in Sanskrit and the word "satan" exists in Hebrew. This does not mean that the languages somehow combine for your purposes to provide you with an English translation that means "truth."
And then all of this begs the question: Where in all of this does the idea that Satanism began in ancient Sumeria even fit in?
It doesn't. A bunch of random, false, information is flung around to try to make the whole ideology have more merit. The only real ties we have been offered between Sumeria and Satanism are that frequently Satan is on the same list of demons as many of the old dieties and spirits of that ancient land's lore.
Turns out though that many deities and lesser spirits of varied lore are on that list. The bulk of them stem from the Eastern regions of the Eastern Roman Empire, ranging from Greece to Persia. In the lists of demons and the like, we see the influence of Zoroastrian faith from Persia organizing and categorizing spirits into good and bad entities, depending on how they saw them fitting into their own monotheistic pantheon - one of the firsts of its kind. In this faith we quite literally start seeing spirits demonized.
The very word "daemon," from Greek, is taken and transformed from something that means, more or less, "spirit" into a word that means "evil spirit" due to the Persian views and influences. One can imagine that once Persia conquers the Jews and enslaves them, their interpretation of Satan, or an adversary, could only be that it was an evil spirit's influence, or a demon.
Now we get the spread of Christianity as the Roman empire. Constantine makes it official, sees the potential of uniting his people under one god (as do many subsequent rulers who convert before going on a binge of warfare and expansion), hoping to provide some stability to an empire that is in chaos. The religion has its good guy, Jesus. Now it just needs a bad guy - ah... Satan. The adversary. A real demon. And now we can use that to demonize anything that stands in the way of Christianity, and Rome.
Ta Da. Now we have the modern image of Satan.
Granted, much of what I've said here is conjecture based on what I do know of history. Some of the influence/appearance of the concept of Satan may have happened before or after what I describe.
But even in the idea of Satan being a temptation to Jesus he was only ever that temporary temptation. That test for the faithful. He was not a demon, or even a single figure, until Christianity needed a full time adversary.
So where in this history is there room for the concept of spiritual satanism to have been as ancient as Sumeria? Sumeria doesn't even fit in to the picture.
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