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Burrrrrrrrrr. Now I’m telling myself, over and over again…
… I’m only noticing the image everywhere now because I’m sensitized to it…
… I’m only noticing the image everywhere now because I’m sensitized to it…
… I’m only noticing the image everywhere now because I’m sensitized to it…
… I’m only noticing the image everywhere now because I’m sensitized to it…
… I’m only noticing the image everywhere now because I’m sensitized to it…
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I was right!!
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“We get the word angel from the Greek angelos,” he says as αγγελος flashes across the screen.
Aggels sounds like a convenience store in Georgia.
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I don’t know if it’s covered in the vid but I think I read that it was Renaissance artists who started depicting angles as humanoids with white feathered wings.
They did so as to make angles in their paintings easily recognizable as angles. So it was kind of essentially a marketing reason, to keep it simple for the audience.
They did the same thing with making the Fruit of Knowledge an apple. So many Christians think Eve took a bit of an apple when it never says such a specific thing in the Bible. It was just painted like that because apples are easily recognizable to the audience (and artists had already established figs sexual metaphors).
I could be wrong about all of this. I don’t trust my memory so neither should you.
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What are the first words out of an Angel’s mouth? “Fear not.” That’s because if they didn’t tell you that you would run in terror.
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Some of these Angels are quite angular
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A snowy owl with wings and tail spread so showing the foot-covering plumes makes a pretty close match.
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That’s fabulous.
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A whole existence spent praising your God, but always with one wing dipped in blood. Would you ever really want to see an angel?
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IAO! ABRAXAS! IAO! That’s not just an angel. That’s an ARCHON!!!
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He caught one on camera??
Seriously though, making a model like that is a great idea.
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Haha! I did it all 3 times, too. I’m such an idoit.
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This is one of my favorite bad movies ever. Walken really makes it.
My recommendation… Do not watch the sequels.
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Non Angli, sed Angeli.
Not Angles, but Angels.
- Attributed to Gregory the Great on seeing British captives for sale at Rome.
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Also the first movie I saw Viggo Mortensen in, and was surprised he could chew scenery as hard as Walken. Amazing cast across the board.
Can’t remember if I made it all the way through the second one or not.
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The angels summoned by the Ark Of The Covenant are ultimately horrific . .
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