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Yahweh is not Dionysus. No clue how you thought of that.
There's not multiple devil characters so much as there is one character that changes over time as people's beliefs evolved.
Satan as portrayed in the Tanakh/OT is basically the prosecutor of Yahweh's court, as explained by other dudes here. By the time the NT was written, Zoroastrian influence resulted in him becoming an independent and malicious figure.
The Book of Revelations is the youngest canonical book in the Bible. By the time it was written, stuff like the War in Heaven started being believed, and Satan really took on the role as the prince of evil.
Identification with the snake of Eden didn't begin until much later.
Pre Yahweh centric Judaism was part of a greater whole in which Yahweh was the god of vineyards and merriment
Sorry bro, but you're straight up wrong. https://books.google.com/books?id=8LtGDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA37
They also both seem to have appeared somewhere around 1300 BC (according to when Wikipedia says the first known signs of their worship are from). As such one could not derive from the other.