04-01-2016, 09:33 PM
(04-01-2016, 07:40 PM)Shaadaris Wrote: Sudden out of the blue thing: So, doing research for the appearance of horrible mind-twisting Eldritch Things*, I came across images depicting, and written descriptions of the original interpretations of angels. Four faces, tons of wings, rings of fire with eyes, holy light that incinerates everything, eyes EVERYWHERE... I mean, wow. How did people ever go from Lovecraftian Horrors That Predate Lovecraft to Pretty People With Wings and Rings?The idea of the "beautiful winged humans" actually comes from, IIRC, India, which Christianity incorporated as yet another "look we have it in our religion too" thing.
That said, they look freaking cool.
*Related to writing I'm doing, not some kind of cultist ritual. Those are for weekends.
And there's multiple types of angels, like the ones that are flaming wheels with an eye.
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