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Husky_Khan said:

Can anyone confirm?

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It's kind of ironic because the "angels" seen in Evangelion could be seen as being in the same vein.

Captain X said:

It's kind of ironic because the "angels" seen in Evangelion could be seen as being in the same vein.

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That anime used a lot of Biblical imagery and contained a large amount of references to Christianity.

Husky_Khan said:

Can anyone confirm?

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No, this is a very common misconception though.

Ezekiel 1 opens up with describing God's Celestial Merkava, that is His Chariot, and includes the descriptions of some angels, but 1:16-18 describes the wheels on the chariot, not any angelic being. The previous set of verses describe the "Living Creatures" who are next to the wheels and are angelic beings.


When one reads the full chapter, or looks at artists' recreations of the entire Celestial Chariot from the full chapter, it becomes fairly apparent that the wheels are, in fact, supposed to be the Chariot's wheels.


Their interpretation that every angel has a single giant eyeball in the center is also not drawn from any biblical source, in fact they're putting a lot of eyes all over the place that aren't described in any scripture.

The Four Living Creatures of Isaiah have:

5 Surrounded by Fire
5 Human-like bodies
6 Four wings and four faces (Sometimes interpreted as four heads, sometimes four faces on a single head
7 cloven hooves like a calf that appear to be bronze, or possibly just as shiny as polished bronze
8 Human hands
9 They do not turn, they move in perfectly straight directions using whichever face is pointed that way.
10 Human face probably forward, bull face to the right, lion face to the left, and eagle face backwards.
11 Two wings are used to cover the body, and two to constantly touch another Living Creature
12 Again, the extreme straightness of their movement is emphasized by repeating it.
13 Their bodies are like hot coals, possibly either haloed or glowing with power. They are surrounded with fire and lightning.
14 They move as quickly as lightning.

For some reason (and this is a pet bugaboo of mine) artists rarely remember that the Living Creatures are constantly in contact via their wings, and they draw them as separate.

Revelation also has a vision of God's Throne and many of the same motifs are repeated, God has four Living Creatures surrounding his throne, though they have one face each in that vision, one human-faced, one bull-faced, one lion-faced, and one eagle-faced.

There's a bit of debate about the symbolism of each one, some feel that the Lion represents God's Power, the Bull his patience, the Human his elevation (as humans are elevated above beasts), and the Eagle his ability to see all things. Others hold that the Eagle represents God's protective desires (God's power to protect is likened to an Eagle in Ex 19:4 and Deuteronomy 32:11-13), that the Lion represents rule over nature as the King of Beasts, and the Bull is power. There's significant debate to this day about it.

King Kravoka said:

Spoiler: Galactivation

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Website's dead. Appears to have been for just the yogic art work of this Thompson person (how many frog-licking Thompsons do I need to run into for one life?), rather than being a cult.

I'm not sure if this belongs here, but I hope that it does. Here is Georges Rodenbach's tomb:



It's certainly very unique.

Am I allowed to post photos of additional tombs and/or graves here? If not, then I'll just limit it to this one.

I like this painting:



Daydream by Paul César Helleu

Bear Ribs said:

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Well,he certainly knew how to made clients never go to other shop.

I like this beautiful mountain landscape acrylic painting:

More acrylic art:

Another beautiful painting:

An underwater fissure formed in 1789 that split the North American and European/Atlantic Tectonic Plates drifting apart and are still... very slowly... drifting apart.

Part of the Silfra Rift which runs through Icelandic territory above and below the surface.



This was formed during the French Revolution... Coincidence?

Him said:

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Is The Mess part of Mongrol ?

ATP said:

Is The Mess part of Mongrol ?

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The mess is used to refer to Steelhorn after he got betrayed by humans and turned to hot sludge, functionally their prisoner, his relation to the supernatural and conscious planet of Mars probably plays a part in how he was restored later on.

Deadlock, Mongroll, The Mess, Happy Shrapnel, Blackblood and...
... Joe Pineapples. Probably because he lost a bet and team got to pick his name.