Friday, November 18, 2011

Angels are Weird

The modern image of angels are cute little children with feathered wings or handsome men/woman with wings too. But their original description ranges from beings with 4 wings and 4 faces with the whole body covered with eyes (including the wings) to "wheels within wheels," the rims of which are covered in eyes.
For more freakish angels

Original descriptions of angels are much more freakish, some of them would put Lovecraft to shame and about to attack Tokyo 3.
I looked, and each of the four cherubim had a wheel beside him, and the wheels sparkled like beryl. All four wheels looked alike and were made the same; each wheel had a second wheel turning crosswise within it.
Both the cherubim and the wheels were covered with eyes. The cherubim had eyes all over their bodies, including their hands, their backs, and their wings. I heard someone refer to the wheels as “the whirling wheels.” Each of the four cherubim had four faces: the first was the face of an ox,b the second was a human face, the third was the face of a lion, and the fourth was the face of an eagle.
Attending him were mighty seraphim, each having six wings. With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew. They were calling out to each other,
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies!
The whole earth is filled with his glory!”

Seraphim, by the way, they are eternally burning

Seraphim (top) and Cherubim (botton)

A Cherubim ready to rock!

Thrones or Ophanim

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4 comments:

  1. I am an angel. I recognize myself as that being with four wings. In particular the lion. When angels become wary of crimes against Africa, lion hunting, they rebel, and turn against Earth. Against the little crown which still exists after kingdoms are gone, only to enslave black, to kill their precious animals in Africa, to harm Africa in the name of the crown.

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  2. You can become an angel if you protect lions in Africa with all your heart. An angel gets energy from the Pentecost: Peace among nations, between Jews and non-Jews. The secret is that crowns ruled history. In the 20th century they got rid of kingdoms, but dictators replaced them. So an age of dictators ran. Then by the late 20th century dictatorships were defeated. They didn't even give us time, but Bush immediately launched new wars against other races. But what remained was the little crown, even if kingdoms went away, or the little tie, even if dictatorships went away. Bush like tried to rebel and free the dictators above us. They built over 800 concentration camps on US territory. Here the small tie wants to grow big, the small crown wants to grow big. And the rebels from the past are being destructive.

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  4. I change my mind. The four wings are common in dictatorships. Lions symbolize supremacy. Bull strength and power. Eagle or Hawk symbolizes the empire. If such dictatorial image is an angel, that is crazy to suggest. I fell into my own trap that I see myself in the mirror again. It's totally true, dude.

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