Angelic Art
February 15, 2019 9:48 PM Subscribe
Lovely angels, I needed to see these today. If only St. Michael the Archangel would smite the evil demon in DC.
Interesting how they span so many cultures. Are there Asian angels from those ancient cultures as well?
posted by mermayd at 8:30 AM on February 16, 2019
Interesting how they span so many cultures. Are there Asian angels from those ancient cultures as well?
posted by mermayd at 8:30 AM on February 16, 2019
Are there paintings of chreubim as described in the bible? I'm talking about a lot of wings and eyes.
posted by Nancy Lebovitz at 9:24 AM on February 16, 2019
posted by Nancy Lebovitz at 9:24 AM on February 16, 2019
Varieties Of Angels And Demons In The Religions Of The World
posted by storybored at 11:10 AM on February 16, 2019
posted by storybored at 11:10 AM on February 16, 2019
hippybear, my favorite theory is that they come from deep ingrained shared conceptualizations of nature. Dragons, for instance, seem to have developed independently all over the globe, and are generally a collection of serpent and predator parts: everything our species has feared the most since prehistory.
Some of the weirder ones (like the ones Nancy Lebovitz mentioned) clearly have to do with mysticism and numerology. One can imagine scholar priests using them to conceptualize math and geometry concepts. Borges has a great book that covers a lot of these.
posted by es_de_bah at 1:12 PM on February 16, 2019
Some of the weirder ones (like the ones Nancy Lebovitz mentioned) clearly have to do with mysticism and numerology. One can imagine scholar priests using them to conceptualize math and geometry concepts. Borges has a great book that covers a lot of these.
posted by es_de_bah at 1:12 PM on February 16, 2019
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I just think it's fascinating how many cultures have created winged animal hybrids seemingly totally separately.
posted by hippybear at 9:59 PM on February 15, 2019