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Show Notes This week on MSB, we're joined by new consultant, and Bible scholar in training, Vivian 'Wheels' Wheeler to talk about the Ophanim, the famous 'wheels within wheels' from the Book of Ezekiel. You can also find Wheels on Bluesky (@singularwheels) or on the podcast Very Random Encounters (www.vre.show)! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment. You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com. Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it. Copyrighted content used in Mobile Suit Breakdown is used in accordance with the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Any queries should be directed to gundampodcast@gmail.comRead transcript

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Send us a textOn today's episode Donnie gives his take on the recent drone and UAP phenomena transpiring in the United States and across the Earth.    Thanks for listening, enjoy!Email: flamingo.1.ag@gmail.com“X” account: @garza_aaron

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Your Unity #493 with Contagious Recorded Live in Adelaide, Australia 16/08/2024 01. Mona Vale - Lenka (Original Mix) [Explorations] 02. Romain Garcia - Everybody Dreams (Extended Mix) [Anjunadeep] 03. Helsloot - Mirrors (Extended Mix) [Get Physical Music] 04. LAR, ALLKNIGHT - Over & Over (Extended Mix) [Explorations] 05. Nils Hoffmann, Kasbo, Vancouver Sleep Clinic - Running In A Dream (Jon Gurd Extended Mix) [Anjunadeep] 06. Dosem - Sensations (Extended Mix) [Anjunadeep] Spector Selector 07. Mortinaré - Somewhere (Gai Barone & Luke Brancaccio Remix) [Particles] 08. Tailor & Klur & Julian Schwarz - Mystery (coiro Extended Remix) [Colorize] 09. Mona Vale - Give It Time (Extended Mix) [Explorations] 10. Nora En Pure, Robinson - Hyperreal (Middle of the Night) (Extended Mix) [Big Beat] 11. RY X - All I Have (Jan Blomqvist Extended Remix) [Disconnected] 12. Marsh - Floodlights (Extended Mix) [Anjunadeep] Premium Pick 13. Ben Böhmer - Rust (Original Mix) [Ninja Tune] 14. Nox Van, Mimi Page - Dream Of Love (Original Mix) [Anjunadeep] 15. Palisade, Ophanim & Phoebe Tsen - Fool (Extended Mix) [Colorize] 16. Ruben De Ronde - Away From You (Oësha & Cyantist Extended Remix) [Epic247 Recordings] 17. Angara & Elliot Vast - Second Chance (Extended Mix) [Monstercat] 18. Romain Garcia - Kako (Extended Version) [Cercle Records] Prestigious Pick 19. Eli & Fur - Parfume (Dosem Remix) [Anjunadeep] 20 Genix, flowanastasia - Lights, Sound, Camera, Action (Yeadon Extended Mix) [Anjunabeats] 21. Kryder, Ginchy & CLO - Hey Now (Extended Mix) [Spinnin' Records] 22. Genix, LYCA - Under My Skin (Extended Mix) [Anjunabeats] 23. Armin van Buuren - Es Vedrà (Extended Mix) [Armada Music] 24. Marsh, Leo Wood - Heartbreak (Extended Mix) [Major Recordings]

Download and stream Sleepless Nights every week on your platform of choice! Don't forget to check out the Sleepless Nights Instagram and Facebook for all the latest gigs and news! Get all the links here: linktr.ee/sleeplessnightsradio 1. Oahu- Alex Pich [Sekora] 2. Fool- Palisade & Ophanim feat Phoebe Tsen [Colorize] 3. Future Memories- Estiva & Lake Avalon [Spectrum Records] 4. Fickle Heart- Jack Emery [Purified Records] 5. Make It Out- Falden feat ALLKNIGHT [This Never Happened] 6. Pretty Delusions (Myon Extended Remix)- Kate Morgan [Ride Recordings] 7. Endlessly (Club Mix)- CamelPhat feat Nadia Ali [When Stars Align] 8. You- Jesabel [Enhanced Recordings] 9. TUNE OF THE WEEK: Holding On (Layla Benitez Extended Remix)- Durante feat Nathan Nicholson [Anjunadeep] 10. With You- ROYALÈ [Addictive Sounds] 11. Photograph- Kyau & Albert [Euphonic] 12. CHEEKY FLASHBACK: Durban- Genix [Anjunabeats] 13. Trifecta- Cosmic Gate & Arnej [Wake Your Mind Records]

Kicking this one off with a track by Ophanim, then later, music by: Hyperbits & Kate McGill, AVAO, Atropate and more.

Hold onto your halos, skeptics and scripture-skimmers! The latest episode of Sacrilegious Discourse is here, and we're taking a blasphemous bash at those so-called heavenly henchmen - angels. Yes, you read that right, it's time for "F*ck Angels," where we serve up a heaping portion of irreverence, topped with a side of cheeky insights.In this divine roast session, we're not just winging it; we dive deep into the celestial bureaucracy of angelic beings with the gusto of a sinner at confession. We kick things off with a candid reminder of our Patreon-exclusive content, where we lure you with angels only to pull the rug out from under your feet with a curveball topic like Lamassu. Spoiler alert: they're not as fluffy as cherubs, and definitely more interesting.From the holy hitmen of the Abrahamic traditions to the rank-and-file messenger boys, we dissect the angelic hierarchy with the precision of a theologian who's had one too many sacrilegious sips. Are these divine drones superior to humans or just sparkly strap-ons of the Almighty? We'll let you decide, but not before we take you through a linguistic journey that explores why so many angelic names end in 'el' and make you question whether you're listening to a podcast or attending a clandestine angelology seminar.Ever heard of the Ophanim? No? Well, they're like God's personal UFOs, according to medieval scholar Maimonides, and we're here to break down the Top 10 Angelic Orders like it's a Billboard chart for heavenly creatures. And if that's not enough to ruffle your feathers, wait until we tackle the transformation of cherubs from badass biblical bouncers to diaper-clad toddlers of Renaissance art.Don't expect harps and halos here; we're all about the nitty-gritty, the esoteric, and the downright weird. Whether it's drawing parallels between Assyrian deities and Ezekiel's trippy visions or calling out the psychopomp trope in pop culture, we're serving it with a side of snark. So if you're ready to laugh in the face of divinity and question everything you thought you knew about angels, tune in, subscribe, and prepare to have your celestial assumptions turned upside down.This isn't your grandma's Sunday school lesson, folks. It's Sacrilegious Discourse's "F*ck Angels," where we make it our heavenly mission to entertain and enlighten you, one irreverent jab at a time.Join us on DISCORD: https://discord.gg/8RwwMrb5zKNOW hosting LIVE episodes every Monday and Wednesday night on YouTube and Twitch!**Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/sacreligious_discourse**YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5rpfCzaWhEaP198xgY7CFw Join Acast+ to enjoy our podcast adfree! https://plus.acast.com/s/sacrilegiousiscourse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Angels in most traditions are heavenly messengers, and modern pop culture has greatly exaggerated almost every feature. While it makes sense to assume that there are female or feminine angels, each one named in Abrahamic scriptural tradition is a man.The word Angel comes from the Greek Aggelos (lit: messenger), and the Hebrew word Malak has the same meaning. In this episode we explore the groups of archangels listed in various sources, most notably Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel, but also including Raguel, Sariel, Remiel, and the Metatron.But more than just a handful of favorite messengers, there are also different kinds of angels, from the baby-faced Cherubim (think of the Renaissance Cupid, though Ezekiel gave them interchangeable animal faces), to the brilliantly dazzling Seraphim (aka fire-folk), to the cosmic horrors known as the Ophanim (the famous "biblically accurate angels" that are simply haunting wheels of eyes and wings and twisted metal)--that last one is dubious in angelic status....Angels show up all over the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, and the entire Quran is said to have been delivered by the same angel that brought Mary and Joseph the news of her pregnancy. In more recent times, works like Paradise Lost and The Divine Comedy have contributed a lot to how we see angels in Western tradition.Angel is also a fair label for demi-god-like beings in other traditions, such as the Devas of Dharmic tradition, the Vördr of Norse tradition, the Yazata (lit: holy) of Mazdeism (aka Zoroastrianism), and the Daemons of Greco-Roman tradition. We consider each of these, and how some are better fits than others for this label.Interpreting Colossians 1:16 to contain a list of angels is ridiculous, and nobody should be that bad at reading.All this and more....   Support us on Patreon or you can get our merch at Spreadshop.Join the Community on Discord.Learn more great religion factoids on Facebook and Instagram. [00:00:11] Katie Dooley: There's a fine. You can go to jail if you... And a fine. There's both. [00:00:19] Preston Meyer: Oh, good. [00:00:19] Katie Dooley: Both a fine and jail. If your phone goes off. [00:00:23] Preston Meyer: That's a bad time. [00:00:24] Katie Dooley: Yeah. It is. You could always ask an angel for help if you go to jail. [00:00:34] Preston Meyer: Ah, there's a lot of stories of people meeting angels in jail. Makes you wonder about those angels, doesn't it? [00:00:39] Katie Dooley: Right. Well, we're gonna explain more on today's episode of.  [00:00:43] Both Speakers: The Holy Watermelon Podcast. [00:00:47] Katie Dooley: Yeah. So. I like that. This is. I feel like we haven't done an episode like this in a minute where we talk about a whole bunch of. We talk about a concept in a whole bunch of religions. [00:01:03] Preston Meyer: Yeah, it has been a minute. [00:01:03] Katie Dooley: I'm excited. So we're talking about angels. [00:01:09] Preston Meyer: Say it ainn't so. [00:01:12] Katie Dooley: Or if you were a really bad speller in junior high an angle. [00:01:16] Preston Meyer: I feel like. Yeah, I must have shared it on our discord this Christmas of somebody who shared a collection of angles that they brought to their family. [00:01:25] Katie Dooley: Yeah, there was a girl in junior high with me. I won't call her a friend because she wasn't. But this was when everyone was on MSN, so you had everyone's email. And her email was sweet angle and then some number. I was like, oh boy. [00:01:41] Preston Meyer: Mhm. Yeah. Spelling is important. [00:01:45] Katie Dooley: Yeah. We all have those cringey emails. [00:01:47] Preston Meyer: Well, it's like most people just cannot spell rogue. [00:01:52] Katie Dooley: Almost every time I see somebody try to say rogue they spell rouge. Now, being a Star Wars fan in a French immersion program growing up, I was not going to make that mistake. Instead, I made all kinds of other mistakes of spelling words the French way in an English context. [00:02:07] Katie Dooley: Well, that's good. Um, but speaking of words, tell us where the word angel comes from. [00:02:13] Preston Meyer: So the word angel as it is known in English. Yes, the the word angel, as you know, it comes from the Greek word Angelos, spelt with no Ns but two G's. Huh? You can complain about that, but English does stupid things too. The word means messenger, which is speculated to have been derived from the older word for mounted courier, which I think is just a cool extra layer of meaning to that. The Hebrew word that typically gets translated into angel in the Greek Bibles is malak, which also means messenger. So there's also the last of the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible prophets. In the Christian Bible format because remember they arrange the books differently is Malachi and he's got the perfect name it basically just means my messenger. Was that his name? We'll never know. [00:03:20] Katie Dooley: Interesting. And yeah, messenger, mounted courier. I'm getting a lot of mailman vibes. Even. Malak. Malak. Malak. Yeah. Mailman. [00:03:36] Preston Meyer: Most of the angels that we see in the Judeo-Christian tradition are men rather than women. So yeah, mailman's great. So the frustrating thing is that the ideas that come along with this word over centuries of thought and baggage collection there's there's a lot of variety and meaning. And most traditions have gotten to the point where the word doesn't mean messenger anymore. Uh, usually it it's just thought of as this is a demigod. The word means some sort of class of demigod, usually with multiple classes. We'll get into that later. And in a lot of religions, you'll see them treated basically as demigods that have dominion over various elements because they can't be gods, because usually you're looking at them in a monotheistic lens. [00:04:36] Katie Dooley: Yeah, I can, especially when when you said it, we'll get into the hierarchy of the angels. But like it's like, how does this even work in a monotheistic tradition to have all of these layers of divine beings? [00:04:50] Preston Meyer: Yeah, they're they're residents of heaven, so they're better than you and me, but they've got great powers, is the deal. [00:05:00] Katie Dooley: And I guess we don't worship angels. I guess saints would actually be a worse sort of like knock to the monotheistic than an angel. [00:05:09] Preston Meyer: Oh, but see, I think it's a mistake to separate them In the Catholic tradition specifically, or any of the the Orthodox, the saint traditions. Lutherans whatever. If you if you're into saints, Saint Michael is one of them. Michael the Archangel, he's a demigod, just like Mother Teresa. Yeah and maybe with better reasons. I.  [00:05:43] Katie Dooley: Mean, can't be worse. [00:05:45] Preston Meyer: One has tales of actual divine power, the other is known to be just awful. [00:05:52] Katie Dooley: Yeah. Cleaned and reuse needles. Yeah. [00:05:54] Preston Meyer: I want to believe that there is a way to clean needles safely. But I know that actual health care professionals say, don't do that. And there's good reason for that. [00:06:04] Katie Dooley: I mean, you're probably right. I'm sure there is. But to, like, guarantee its safety is probably near impossible. Just donated blood this week. Right? Like it's such a small little needle. How would you make sure it was maybe the syringe part, but the little needle anyway. Gross. Don't do it, don't. Clean needles for all. [00:06:25] Preston Meyer: Yeah. Adding angels to monotheism. It does look an awful lot like demigods in a system where there is just one greater God. And we've had this conversation about how Hinduism, you've got a lot of lesser gods under Brahma. [00:06:44] Katie Dooley: Yeah. And I mean even Shinto, all the kami, there's greater kami, there's lesser kami. [00:06:51] Preston Meyer: It's complicated. And it just makes the argument for strict monotheism the way most people define it, a lot harder to argue. [00:07:01] Katie Dooley: Yes. And all the Abrahamic religions have angels, and those are the monotheistic ones. And people are vehement about the fact that they're monotheistic. And it's like, but then they're saints and angels, whether you group them together or not. I mean, even in Christianity, there's the Trinity. [00:07:22] Preston Meyer: Yeah, I saw a meme on Reddit the other day, and it was it was definitely a Mormon kid posting a meme slamming the Trinity in a group that has historically not been friendly to Mormons. And they roasted him hard in the comments, but all of the arguments they offered were absolute nonsense. It's frustrating. Like, it's it's okay to believe in the Trinity if you're going to believe in anything, whatever. But if you're going to slam somebody for not getting it, make sure you get it.  [00:07:22] Katie Dooley: This is such an old movie, but in Bill Maher's Religulous. [00:08:07] Preston Meyer: Oh, that's a lot of fun. [00:08:08] Katie Dooley: It is. He asks one guy about the Trinity, and he, the guy explains it that it's like water. It can be ice, or it can be steam, or it can be water. And that's the Trinity. And I was like, well, that or Bill Maher was like, well, that sounds good on paper, but it really doesn't explain it. They're different, but they're the same. Anyway, we're digressing a bit, but let's jump into talking about angels in the Hebrew Bible. [00:08:32] Preston Meyer: Yeah. So there's. A lot of appearances of angels. It's kind of a recurring theme. [00:08:40] Katie Dooley: Yeah, and not just in the Hebrew Bible, but there are also angels in rabbinic literature and in the Apocrypha as well. [00:08:46] Preston Meyer: Oh for sure. Yeah, the angels are, I would say, a pretty prominent part of this faith. [00:08:51] Katie Dooley: Yeah. And from my research, it feels like there's more angels in the Hebrew Bible than in the Christian Bible. [00:08:59] Preston Meyer: There's definitely more angels named in the Hebrew tradition than there are in the New Testament. The New Testament names Gabriel outright and then just mentions, oh yeah, and other angels showed up for this event. [00:09:15] Katie Dooley: And I guess also like the whole last half of the Christian Bible is just letters.  [00:09:24] Preston Meyer: Yeah, not a whole lot of narrative storytelling. Whereas the Hebrew Bible has a lot of really great storytelling in it. [00:09:32] Katie Dooley: Right. Uh, in the Hebrew Bible, the angels visit many people, including Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, and Hagar, and they're typically used as messengers, like the name implies. But sometimes they appear as warriors and they're supposed to look like regular people without wings. [00:09:49] Preston Meyer: Yeah. It's just dudes. They're just here doing stuff. And not a whole lot of religions love that. They gotta have the wings. We talked about this before. We recorded the biblically accurate angels that are so popularly memed right now, specifically one type of type of angel. We'll talk about that later. These angels look like men. [00:10:12] Katie Dooley: Yes, but all the angels with wings don't just have a pair of wings. They have multiple pairs of wings. [00:10:18] Preston Meyer: Well, you got angels with one pair. You got angels with two pairs. You got angels with three pairs. Four pairs. And then you've got the absolute cosmic horrors. Lovecraftian nonsense with gears and wings and eyes without number. Yeah. There are options. [00:10:37] Katie Dooley: There is some frustrating ambiguity on angels in the Hebrew Bible, obscuring the relationship between Yahweh and the angels. [00:10:46] Preston Meyer: In our Patreon exclusive Bible study. We're not yet to the really interesting. Well, I guess we have covered a few scenes where this has happened for you. Um, there's going to be more. So the appearance of the Angel of the Lord in the Hebrew Bible does have a pattern to it that I think is really interesting, that it does make it hard to tell who we're talking about in the story because of everything that's going on when it happens. The narrator introduces the Angel of the Lord, and then this angel feels pretty godlike in the way he shows up. He does huge miracles, sometimes annihilating a whole army like in 2 Kings 19. It's pretty epic. Not a thing you'd expect somebody who isn't imbued with God-like power to accomplish. And then the witnesses worship him, which, whether he's the creator or not, you're going to receive a great deal of gratitude for saving a bunch of people from a devastating army. [00:11:54] Katie Dooley: Yeah, yeah, in that instance for sure. [00:11:56] Preston Meyer: And this is a pattern that goes on several times in the scriptures. And I think it's interesting. Though it's always treated as though he is the Lord himself, not a messenger and there's a couple of different explanations for what's going on there. But I think whaneighbourst's very likely happened is that this text tradition that we have simply originally said that the Lord showed up and did this thing he's called the Lord of armies. That's one of his titles, kind of a big deal. He was a God of war as far as the neighbours were concerned, and fairly so since they often lost to the Israelites. And then later editors, I think, decided that their God wouldn't do this thing himself. He's too far beyond us, so he would send an angel to do it. And so they added this Angel of the Lord. That's my hypothesis. Pretty hard to prove what an ancient editorial process would have been without variance in the text that back me. [00:13:08] Katie Dooley: Right? The Jewish scripture also introduces four angels that will become the Christian archangels that surround God's throne. So Michael shows up in the biblical book of Daniel as the victor in a battle between nations. The name means "Who is like God?" most prefer to read that as a question. Who is like God? [00:13:28] Preston Meyer: As a challenge. God is the greatest, which is a weird name. latter-dayThe Latter-Day Saint tradition says that this name was given to Adam because he was like God, not terribly popular in the broader Christian community. [00:13:47] Katie Dooley: Gabriel also shows up in Daniel more as a messenger than as a conqueror. The name indicates the power of God usually has a bearer. [00:14:00] Preston Meyer: Somebody who conveys.  [00:14:01] Katie Dooley: I do know what the word means, but I'm like that feels like a lot of Rs. The name indicates the power of God usually has a bearer of an empowering message. These are the only two mentioned by name in the Bible.  [00:14:14] Preston Meyer: Gabriel and Michael. But, you know, there's lots more angels. There was an angel that Jacob wrestled with who later came to be known as Israel. And maybe that was the Lord himself? Maybe it was just an angel. Maybe it was Michael. Maybe it was Gabriel. Maybe it was somebody else that we don't know their name because he's not outright named. Except for maybe that Angel of the Lordbusiness. [00:14:46] Katie Dooley: Right. Then there's Raphael, who's features prominently in the apocryphal Book of Tobit, a story with notable similarities to the Bhagavad Gita. The name Raphael highlights the healing power of God. I'm just thinking of the Lucifer TV series. I'm like, I know that character, Uriel. I think he was a bad guy in Lucifer. He rounds out the set of four showing up in the apocryphal additions to the writings of Ezra. His name means God is my light suitable to his role as guide and instructor. [00:15:19] Preston Meyer: But wait. There's more. [00:15:21] Katie Dooley: What? There's so many. [00:15:23] Preston Meyer: So for a long time, it was really nice that we had a set of four, and they matched the four cardinal points of the compass, the four corners of the world. They took care of the world and the dealings of men within it. And then we got our Enoch literature. And we throw away this need for four and say, well, wait, we can do better. There's seven. And one of the ideas that makes this look good is that it matches the lampstand that's in the temple that has seven branches. So that's kind of nice. And then we get Raguel, whose name means "God will pasture" like a shepherding kind of business. He's connected with justice. He's supposed to watch the damned to make sure they stay within their bounds, which is kind of weird. Like, I guess without him, demons would just absolutely ruin this planet. Like humans couldn't do well enough on our own. [00:16:24] Katie Dooley: It also gives me, like, big, like, Hades vibes. [00:16:26] Preston Meyer: Sure. Yeah. He guards the demons that are locked away in Tartarus. Tartarus being a Greek place where the Titans are held. Yeah. You notice how there's going to be problems here of ideas crossing national boundaries. Yeah. Um, then we have Sariel. His name means "God is my Ruler". Uh, basically serves the same purpose as Raguel without being connected to the idea of justice so explicitly. Sidekick, I guess? Then there's Remiel, which means "God has Thundered". We talked about Thunder as a great nickname a couple episodes ago. I think that was. This is an interesting situation. He's connected to hope, and he's supposed to be the one responsible for all true visions, and he is also a bit of a psychopomp. That he would be the guide that takes you to heaven if that is your destination. Yeah, kind of interesting. This name is too similar to Ramiel, who, according to the same book, liked the human ladies too much and became the father of many of the watchers, the great giants in the early part of human history, when the one legendary version of our religious history has angels mating with humans to make giants, and they just ruined everything. [00:17:54] Katie Dooley: So there's Remiel and Ramiel. That is very confusing. [00:17:54] Preston Meyer: Especially when we're talking about a language that was originally written with no real differentiation between vowels. The vowel marks we have today are pretty new. So it's just a tradition. And so the confusion that exists today is certainly an old confusion. And then of course, there's lots of other angels that are named in the apocryphal literature. And some of them get multiple names, including some of the ones we've talked about. They're also known by other names sometimes. And the great thing about having a list of your favourite angels is you can swap them out sometimes and just say, no, this dude wrote this list. I don't like that one. I'm gonna pop in my guy over here. Just cause. Did you ever watch Dogma? [00:18:49] Katie Dooley: No. [00:18:50] Preston Meyer: We need to fix that. [00:18:51] Katie Dooley: Okay. Movie night? [00:18:53] Preston Meyer: Absolutely. Okay. Dogma is an absolute treasure. Part of Kevin Smith's Jay and Silent Bob saga but this features Alanis Morissette as God and Alan Rickman as the Metatron, and oh, why can't I think of the names right now? Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are fallen angels. [00:19:18] Katie Dooley: Oh, wow. It's ridiculous, isn't it? [00:19:20] Preston Meyer: It is so much fun. But the Metatron is just this really weird figure in religious angeology. I guess it never made any sense to me ever. And my first exposure to it was Alan Rickman. [00:19:36] Katie Dooley: But it is in actual religion, the Metatron?  [00:19:36] Preston Meyer: Yeah. Everything you see in dogma is taken from real religious ideas  and then twisted for humor, which is great, except for I don't I haven't found yet any validation for the Golgotha poop demon but, the ideas behind it are validated in many religious ideas so there's that. But so this Metatron, according to Kabbalistic sources, is the name of Enoch after his transformation into an angel when he was promoted to the great office of Heavenly Scribe. So he would be the one who writes down the book of life for God. Which is completely different than the job that he has in dogma, where he speaks for God. Because if you were to hear the voice of God, your head would explode and you would die. A lot of religions actually really buy into this idea, even though it absolutely contradicts what we have in the biblical text. [00:20:44] Katie Dooley: Yeah, because God talks to a lot of people. [00:20:47] Preston Meyer: Yeah. Well, so the idea that a lot of people have bought into as well. Yeah, it says God talked to them, but he talked to them through the Metatron. It's a stretch that I don't love. The name I think is really interesting for the Metatron, and people are going to argue about it forever, probably because we still haven't come to a solid conclusion on it. Some say that it's the Hebrew word for some sort of keeper. Others say that it comes from the Greek construction of Meta Throne, so that we have the guy in the chair beside the chair. Remember, we've talked about the very obvious and well-documented polytheistic origins of the Israeli religion. Yahweh is the son of El. There was never only one throne. So the guy on the chair, beside the chair, beside the chair, beside the chair, who knows how many chairs there are? Whatever. [00:21:50] Katie Dooley: I mean a lot. There's a lot. [00:21:53] Preston Meyer: Right. Well, in the theology that is evident a little bit in the book of Job, there is a council of God. [00:22:03] Katie Dooley: I mean, because even they talk about Michael being the right hand of God, but Jesus is also the right hand of God. So they're going to wrestle over that. [00:22:09] Preston Meyer: Well, so that's something that the Jehovah's Witnesses think they've fixed. They say Jesus is Michael. [00:22:20] Katie Dooley: Perfect. Wrap it up. [00:22:21] Preston Meyer: Rather than admitting that the Bible is very clear that Jesus is Jehovah. Every time you try to come up with a really good, tight little bow to simplify things there's a really good chance you're screwing it up. [00:22:38] Katie Dooley: Yeah, because it's religion. [00:22:41] Preston Meyer: Yeah. Nothing's ever as simple as you want it to be. [00:22:44] Katie Dooley: So I just threw this wrench in our notes because I started explaining the angelology of the Hebrew Bible. And then I realized everyone has angelology and it just be easier to explain what that is right now. So angelology is the ranking system of angels. That's how many angels there are. [00:23:09] Preston Meyer: And it's never as simple as you want it to be. [00:23:11] Katie Dooley: No, it's like I saw a ranking and then I saw different rankings and then I saw different ranking. So I don't think we've included any rankings in here. [00:23:21] Preston Meyer: Just to keep it simple. Stick with the basics. [00:23:24] Katie Dooley: If you're curious on how angels are ranked, pick your favorite scholar and go for it. So in the Abrahamic religions, Islam has no standardized hierarchy, but scholars divide up the angels into different groups depending on the scholar. This can be anywhere from 8 to 14 different groups. So while they're all on par, there's different species of angels? Categories?  [00:23:47] Preston Meyer: I think species is a fair classification, I guess we'll talk about some angels that definitely feel like they would be different species from others. [00:23:58] Katie Dooley: Then there are different types of angels that appear in Judaism and then therefore Christianity. And they have been ranked a variety of different ways depending on which rabbi or kabbalist you're reading. [00:24:14] Preston Meyer: Yay! Complicated. [00:24:16] Katie Dooley: Very complicated. [00:24:18] Preston Meyer: Um, the Hebrew Bible differentiates between different kinds of heavenly beings as well. And they're all called angels, generally speaking. But sometimes you'll get other great titles like Seraphs or Seraphim. [00:24:32] Katie Dooley: I think the best way to compare this is that there's dogs and then there's dog breeds, there's angels, and there's types of angels. [00:24:41] Preston Meyer: Sure. Yeah. [00:24:43] Katie Dooley: They're all dogs. They're all angels. They're just... They got special features. [00:24:48] Preston Meyer: Sure. I don't know if it's a perfect analogy, but it definitely helps with explaining what's going on here, [00:24:53] Katie Dooley: That they're all angels, but there's cherubs and seraphs. [00:25:00] Preston Meyer: So my whole life I've, I've never heard people say cherubs. But that's definitely the way the word is spelled. Yeah. [00:25:13] Katie Dooley: In Hebrew? [00:25:15] Preston Meyer: Yeah and even when we spelled it c h, it was meant to be like the ch in Loch Loch Ness. We just we've gotten used to doing all the CHs as cha- so we went with cherubs. [00:25:31] Katie Dooley: I'm going to start calling them cherubs at Christmas. [00:25:33] Preston Meyer: Absolutely. Even though a cherub is a thing you eat, that's fine. [00:25:39] Katie Dooley: Sorry. Go through your types of angels. [00:25:41] Preston Meyer: So cherubs are best known for being painted in Rome as children. That's just the deal. But it was one of these who protected the tree of life with a flaming sword in Genesis. We see cherubs on the the Ark of the Covenant with their wings and all that. Ezekiel gives them more wings than everybody else but Ezekiel was getting, maybe a little too much of that temple oil that we now know for sure had hallucinogens in it. [00:26:15] Katie Dooley: Nice. How many wings? Was this the three and four pairs? [00:26:20] Preston Meyer: I think Ezekiel's cherubs only had two pairs of wings.  [00:26:24] Katie Dooley: That's still four full wings. [00:26:26] Preston Meyer: Right. He also gave them interchangeable faces of lions, oxes, men and eagles. It's a little bit weird. Um, the same faces that we have described in Ezekiel. They get used again in the Revelation of John. So the name cherub, hard to know for sure, it may have been derived from an Old Assyrian word caribou meaning mighty.  [00:26:52] Katie Dooley: Interesting. So where we get caribou...? [00:26:54] Preston Meyer: No. Entirely different. [00:26:56] Katie Dooley: Okay. Well, because those are pretty mighty creatures. Yeah. Majestic even. [00:27:01] Preston Meyer: Haul Santa's fat ass across the sky at Christmas. [00:27:05] Katie Dooley: Um, tell me more about seraphs. [00:27:07] Preston Meyer: Seraphs, the name means burning, and they're always illustrated verbally or in art, in visual arts, as being surrounded by light. So these guys get described by Isaiah as having six wings. Other than that, they're people-shaped, but lots of wings. And so those are the two reasonable ones, because cherubs are always described as children for a long time as a kid or not as a kid, as a teenager trying to figure out angels from the Latter-Day Saint perspective, where we really don't talk about angels very much at all relative to the things we're talking about today. It's mostly you've got either spirits who haven't got bodies yet or people who have got bodies, died. And thus are still unembodied, or those great spirits who have come back resurrected with their bodies in full glory. And so you got cherubs would be the young ones who haven't got bodies yet. Seraphs are the glorified ones who have got their bodies and all the glory of God, whatever. Ophans have never been part of this discussion. The ophanim, the name means wheels, and this is a class of angels described only by Ezekiel and depending on your version of the Bible, you might not even recognize that he's talking about angels. So there's some argument on whether or not these even belong here. But when people talk about biblically accurate angels, the ones that are absolutely terrifying and monstrous, it's the ophanim. Sometimes they're called thrones because these gear monsters support the throne where God sits. And that's their deal. They don't visit Earth. They're not messengers. [00:29:07] Katie Dooley: Good, good. [00:29:09] Preston Meyer: So the whole be not afraid meme of no, this is the most terrifying moment of my life. The ophans.  [00:29:16] Katie Dooley: Were not those messengers. That's good. They remind me of the Bhagavad Gita. The guy with infinite eyes and infinite mouths, like. I don't want to be visited by that. [00:29:28] Preston Meyer: No, I don't think anybody would. [00:29:30] Katie Dooley: I think... That's is that Krishna or Vishnu in their, like, real form? I think that's what it is. I forget now, but, um, someone will listen to our...  [00:29:39] Preston Meyer: The Messenger was Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita.  So these these guys are just wild. It's really hard to know what Ezekiel was experiencing, but I feel like he was definitely getting the best of the temple oils and the way that eyes are described here with all these wing imagery. My instinct is to say that he was also seeing and failing to interpret correctly because of it, wonderful intoxication, a peacock. [00:30:18] Katie Dooley: That's interesting. Yeah. That's a not a terrible theory. [00:30:21] Preston Meyer: Well, so the the tail feathers, they all got eyes. Yeah. And wings might be hard to see where one wing ends and the next thing might be a wing if you're high, especially the peacock just feels right. [00:30:38] Katie Dooley: Okay. All right.  [00:30:43] Preston Meyer: But yeah, so they are not visitors to Earth. They're not messengers. They're their own special thing built out of wheels and gears and eyeballs and feathers that support, apparently, according to Ezekiel's vision and some creative license and interpretation, the throne of God. And taking that into consideration and the description of the cherubs with the weird heads of all these various animals, it makes sense that there's some interesting sorts of ideas, like the they're chimeras of one sort or another, that we see all over the old world. And it makes sense that a lot of scholars would agree that some of these ideas are coming in they're very odd forms from neighboring nations. [00:31:35] Katie Dooley: Fair, you gotta make it popular to the public. [00:31:37] Preston Meyer: Right? Plus, people love stories about that. Weird monsters thing. So yeah, popular to the public helps. [00:31:46] Katie Dooley: Yeah. So in the Christian Bible, angels appear only as messengers and teachers, though there is a scene in the Revelation of John illustrating Heaven, where the four faces of Ezekiel described as cherubs, are represented. [00:32:02] Preston Meyer: We also get Gabriel. He's the one who showed up to Joseph and Mary, both of them separately, to let them know, "Hey, there's a baby in there. Don't freak out. It's Jesus." [00:32:16] Katie Dooley: Though I do love the memes about Joseph. [00:32:19] Preston Meyer: Yes, they are certainly entertaining. [00:32:22] Katie Dooley: Have you seen the one where Joseph is like, "I made you a cherry pie", and Mary's like, "we don't have cherries." And he was like, "God gave them to me. Do you see how stupid that sounds?" Uh, and then the stepdad, ones "I'm the dad that stepped up". [00:32:43] Preston Meyer: Oh, yeah, yeah. I feel weird about Joseph being left out of the story after the nativity. Like there's the sons of the carpenter or whatever, because Jesus had brothers. There's no arguing against that. But we never know about him dying. But also, he wasn't there when Jesus died. People just lost track of where his stepdad was. [00:33:09] Katie Dooley: Yeah. Angels who go undescribed appear at a few crucial points of the end of the Jesus story, presumably in regular human form. No wings. [00:33:20] Preston Meyer: Yeah. We got angels who were there when Jesus came out of the empty tomb. Well, when he made the tomb empty. We got angels standing around in Jerusalem when Jesus ascends up into the clouds. Reminding people. This what I'm doing, that they said he'll come back the same way he left. So if you find somebody claiming to be Jesus reborn, biblical contradiction. And then we have more angels in medieval writings. [00:33:55] Katie Dooley: Which is pretty cool. [00:33:56] Preston Meyer: Yeah. Have you ever read Paradise Lost? [00:34:00] Katie Dooley: I haven't, but I want to. [00:34:02] Preston Meyer: I also have not read Paradise Lost. I've only read about it. It's one of those great popular things that just hasn't hit my table yet. John Milton's Paradise Lost, written so, so long ago, 1667, was when it was published. Great couple of great poems. Angels are super important. We got the story of Satan / Lucifer. Because for so long, everybody just assumed Lucifer means Satan. [00:34:32] Katie Dooley: Yeah. So the two we're going to talk about, I, tell me if I'm wrong and maybe, maybe we don't know because we haven't read it, I think this is where the connection of Lucifer and the Bible is to the devil, because Lucifer in the Bible is not the devil, [00:34:45] Preston Meyer: Right? Lucifer in the Bible is not ever the devil. [00:34:48] Katie Dooley: So this must be where... [00:34:50] Preston Meyer: I feel like that's.  [00:34:51] Katie Dooley: And even in, uh, Dante as well.  [00:34:55] Preston Meyer: Yeah, I've talked with a couple of doctors of theology in my time at university, and there's not any solid consensus on whether Dante Alighieri, who wrote The Divine Comedy, was super influential on Christian theology, or if he was writing about things that he'd been learning at church. Um, there's not a strong consensus there, by the sounds of it, but very fascinating stuff. Not that Dante agrees with all of the thoughts on angels, but his thoughts are very well preserved. [00:35:34] Katie Dooley: Sorry, we are jumping ahead a little bit, but Paradise Lost is an epic poem. And yes, it talks about Satan, Lucifer. It also talks about Adam and Eve in a separate part. It outlines the hierarchy of angels. It talks about Lucifer, Satan's rebellion, the war in heaven, and what fallen angels are, which I read that there's parts of this all pulled from, like the Dead Sea Scrolls. So there is a... [00:36:00] Preston Meyer: Well, the Dead Sea Scrolls weren't available when Paradise Lost. It's been like 70 years. [00:36:08] Katie Dooley: But anyway it had biblical or Apocryphal references. [00:36:13] Preston Meyer: Yeah, yeah, there's definitely a lot of rabbinical literature that would have been some good source material for, [00:36:18] Katie Dooley: Because there is no fallen angels in the Bible. [00:36:22] Preston Meyer: There is a couple of passages that allude to huge swathes of angels being cast out of heaven before the foundation of the world. What that looks like is the matter of many hypotheses. [00:36:38] Katie Dooley: So we started talking about the Divine Comedy. [00:36:40] Preston Meyer: It's even older. [00:36:42] Katie Dooley: Yeah, and most people are familiar with Dante's Inferno, which is a part one of the three parts of... [00:36:47] Preston Meyer: Dante's Inferno, is great drama because it's the first part of a trilogy. And so if you're going to get tired and quit, at least you'll have read some of Inferno. But it's also the great part where Dante gets to slam on all the thinkers and popes that he didn't like and say, "Ha! You guys are in hell. I know, because I'm the dude who wrote the book". [00:37:12] Katie Dooley: So this is also written in a poem format, and he wrote it between 1308 and 1321, and it describes the afterlife. Obviously, the inferno is the hell part and Paradiso is the part that describes heaven. [00:37:29] Preston Meyer: And then there's the part in between. Purgatorial. For purgatory.  [00:37:29] Katie Dooley: So Paradiso describes the nine spheres of heaven. There's what? Seven circles of hell. Nine circles of hell anyway. Inferno describes the circles of hell. I don't remember how many. And Paradiso describes the nine spheres of heaven in the ninth sphere. I'm reading the notes wrong. The ninth sphere of heaven is where the angels reside. It's called Prima Mobile. There's one more sphere where God resides. So according to Dante, angels are beings that are most familiar to God, and they are made of an immaterial. [00:38:07] Preston Meyer: Now, what sort of substance is immaterial, Katie? But light is matter as well. Light is a particle and a wave. It's like when people say that God exists outside of time and space. [00:38:21] Katie Dooley: I'm, uh. I'm rereading His Dark Materials. They're probably made of dust. Have you read?  [00:38:21] Preston Meyer: No [00:38:29] Katie Dooley: Oh. They're great. They were very controversial when they came out of the 90s. [00:38:33] Preston Meyer: Sure. That's the, um, the Amber Spyglass. [00:38:37] Katie Dooley: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, so probably dust is what I'm going to call it. [00:38:40] Preston Meyer: Sure, but dust is matter too.  [00:38:43] Katie Dooley: No, in the book it's a divine matter, but they call it dust. Capital D dust. [00:38:47] Preston Meyer: Okay. When I think of immaterial substance, it sounds like they're just holograms. But I'm always reminded of, I think it was Neil deGrasse Tyson who said, you know, if you if your God exists outside of time and space, that's how you describe a thing that does not exist. [00:39:06] Katie Dooley: So like tug on the collar... [00:39:08] Preston Meyer: It's a really popular description for a lot of Christians and people of other traditions as well. And I don't see the need to describe God as outside of time and space, especially when it causes you the problem of now you've described something that doesn't exist. [00:39:26] Katie Dooley: Maybe out of time, but definitely not out of space. [00:39:30] Preston Meyer: Even outside of time doesn't make any sense to me. [00:39:34] Katie Dooley: I guess time would be irrelevant for God, I guess is my point. [00:39:37] Preston Meyer: Right and yeah, if you live long enough, time might not matter but you still exist in a state where there's an event and things before and after that. [00:39:46] Katie Dooley: Now we're getting into the multiverse and.... It's all great in theory, but very confusing in practice. So we touched briefly on angels in Islam because of their non-hierarchy but groupings. In Islam, they believe they are heavenly beings originating directly from God. Like little God offspring. [00:40:08] Preston Meyer: Yeah, but usually in the creation sense, like molded because in the Islamic tradition, the Quran is very clear that God does not have children. The Quran is also very clear he had three daughters. [00:40:24] Katie Dooley: What a holy book that contradicts itself? Say it ain't so. Colour me shocked. [00:40:30] Preston Meyer: It's tricky. But they would have been angels, not gods, even though they were definitely figures that were recognized as goddesses among the heathens. [00:40:43] Katie Dooley: It's fine. So the Quran is the number one Islamic source referring to angels, but there's also angels in the hadiths and elsewhere in Islamic literature. [00:40:53] Preston Meyer: I mean, the whole thing wouldn't have happened if not for an angel at least allegedly appearing to Muhammad. Um, good old [00:41:02] Jibril. The same figure that we called Gabriel earlier in this [00:41:06] episode. They're messengers, servants for God. And Jibril is the greatest messenger. I don't remember hearing anything about Michael and looking up things in Islam. [00:41:18] Katie Dooley: Um, they have sort of a 1 to 1 comparison I put in the notes. Um. But I don't know where they appear in the Quran. [00:41:27] Preston Meyer: So, like in Judaism, angels are super great for protecting against terrible things. Angels are attracted to sacred places. The whole guardian thing makes sense. And every now and then, you'll find them protecting people. With it an angel will not enter an unclean place. This is pretty typical of most religions. That an angel that is supposed to be so good and pure, not going to go to places that could be called haram or go near a dog even because that's dirty. [00:42:04] Katie Dooley: My dog was an angel, so.  [00:42:04] Preston Meyer: Many are. [00:42:10] Katie Dooley: I disagree with that. Maybe they're more powerful angels. And so other angels are scared to come by. [00:42:19] Preston Meyer: Uh, there are many classes of angels. Or maybe Paige was just a jinn. [00:42:24] Katie Dooley: Oh, wow. But it's probably more accurate anyway. Angels in Islam, are believed to be older than humans and the jinn that Preston mentioned. And they have no human desires. They don't tire, they don't get hungry. They're never angry. [00:42:38] Preston Meyer: So they're often described this way in Jewish literature and the trouble that I have with this idea is that they saw in most versions of early Judeo-Christian Abrahamic origins of the world. They saw the daughters of man and said, that's a really good place to play hide the sausage, and that's not an angel that doesn't have passions. Oh, well. [00:43:18] Katie Dooley: Um, Muslims do not believe in the concept of the fallen angel like in Christianity. Rather, they believe that angels are infallible. [00:43:25] Preston Meyer: Right? And the Iblis isn't a fallen angel, but a terrible jinn. I'm pretty sure, if I remember correctly. [00:43:34] Katie Dooley: So they, as Preston, sort of asked, Islam shares three out of the four archangels with Christianity. So we have Jibril, who's Gabriel; Mikhail, who's Michael; Israfil, who's Raphael. And then the fourth one is Azrail, or Azrael is the English name, but that's not Uriel. Those are their archangels. [00:43:57] Preston Meyer: And, um, Azrael would be a little bit more familiar with the Angel of death called sometimes Malak Hamad. There's another name that I can't remember, Samael, I think. I might be confusing with another angel. I have to look that up later. [00:44:16] Katie Dooley: I mean, that sounds correct to someone who watched the entire series of Lucifer, but that's my only frame of reference right now. That's terrible.  [00:44:27] Preston Meyer: Popular culture is a great tool for education as long as it's well-written. [00:44:32] Katie Dooley: So the Quran describes angels as well-formed human beings. Nice build. Sure. Uh, made of pure light. And they have multiple pairs of wings. So I read two, three, four pairs of wings. [00:44:47] Preston Meyer: Right. So we get very similar descriptions for the jinn. But the jinn are newer and a lot more selfish and a lot more likely to do sexy things so than the angels in this tradition. And then we can change gears a little bit to Zoroastrianism. And I think a lot of the ideas of angels that we get in Judaism probably find a much more comfortable home in Zoroastrianism. Um, the writings of Ezekiel. Are generally thought to have come post-exile. And so this influence would have been definitely a part of this deal. If that is how that worked out. So then in Persian Zoroastrian tradition, there are several forms of yazata. I like that word. Any word that has a bunch of syllables and the same vowel every time. I don't know why it gets me just right.  Like Canada. [00:45:52] Katie Dooley: How patriotic you are. Rococo. Rococo. [00:45:58] Preston Meyer: Rococo. That first I was a little soft, but I can appreciate it. [00:46:04] Katie Dooley: It's a great art movement. [00:46:05] Preston Meyer: So anyway, the Yazata are a class of beings defined nominally as worthy of worship. Gods, in the simplest sense. This is complicated by the fact that we still don't have a good definition of what is a God that everybody can agree on. If it is worshiped, it is a god. That's the deal. That's for today's discussion. I feel like that's pretty fair. So this same word, yazata is applied to all the really good things, including some plants and even prayer formats. So because of that, I feel like a really fair way to translate that into English instead of worthy of worship would be anything that is holy. [00:46:54] Katie Dooley: Holy, sacred, yeah. [00:46:55] Preston Meyer: Yeah, and like the Most Holy One, would be your Most High God, which in this case would be Ahura Mazda, the greatest of the Yazata. So in the earliest writings, Yazata is anything good, and in slightly later early writings the Yazatas are completely and absolutely divine, and so it quickly went from holy things as opposed to profane things, to holy things, as in the gods and God adjacent things in a religion that's mostly monotheistic but isn't quite either. Tricky business. We've talked about this in our Zoroastrian episode. The Persian, the Legend of Persian Zoro. Yeah. Tricky business. So the most popular yazatas received a formal ranking. Relatively late in the Zoroastrian time frame. In about the fourth or fifth century BCE, a calendar was instituted that used the names of the angelic Yazatas to name the months, the days, and even the portions of the days. There's five parts of the day, and each of them are named for various yazata angel figures and so based on that, we got what became of well known because everybody needs to know how you're measuring time, angelology. That was kind of nifty. And so for the Mazdaists, the seven Amesha Spenta, we've talked about them before, they're roughly equivalent to archangels. And so it feels like maybe the shift from 4 to 7 might have been influenced from this time of exile with the Babylonian. [00:48:56] Katie Dooley: Yeah. I mean, this is all happening in the same place at the same time in the world, so. [00:49:00] Preston Meyer: Yeah. And so Ahura Mazda is often described as the father of the Amesha Spenta, but it's generally not taken literally. Just like the Muslims say that Allah is the creator of these angels, not the father, father. [00:49:16] Katie Dooley: Though there was one Amesha Spenta that is described as his daughter. Do you remember that? [00:49:20] Preston Meyer: Well, they're all described as his children. [00:49:22] Preston Meyer: No, there was one specifically that was like, it's his daughter. [00:49:25] Preston Meyer: This one is definitely a daughter. Oh, and he's got other sons, too, right? But they're more godly and less angelic. But they are all yazata. Not that it's not confusing. [00:49:38] Katie Dooley: I haven't said this in a long time. A square is a rectangle, but a rectangle isn't a square. [00:49:44] Preston Meyer: The trouble with that is that for a long time, a square was also called a rectangle. [00:49:52] Katie Dooley: Oh, I thought you were gonna, like, correct me on the yazata. Like, not all yazata are gods, but all gods are yazata. [00:49:59] Preston Meyer: No, that's... Yeah, you got that right. But there's even more. Because why stop with just the Judeo-Christian and immediately Judeo-Christian adjacent? There is other great ideas. [00:50:13] Katie Dooley: There's so many. So the Dharmic religions, this is Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism all have Devas, which means heavenly, shining or divine being. The word is generally applied to the gods of the Hindu peoples, as well as to cosmic principles that might manifest during meditation. It is a worthy goal to ascend from this human level and to be reincarnated as a deva. Devas are said to be mortal, expected to die after thousands of years, and be reborn if they don't escape samsara. [00:50:47] Preston Meyer: Imagine being demoted from Deva back to human. [00:50:50] Katie Dooley: I mean, it happens. [00:50:51] Preston Meyer: I mean, the story is that it must. [00:50:58] Katie Dooley: Each has their own... Each of the devas has their own identity, different than an avatar, right? So there's different avatars of Vishnu and different avatars of Krishna, which is a temporary embodiment of a god.  [00:51:10] Preston Meyer: When they just come down for what for them is a weekend. And I think it's really interesting that for Zoroastrianism, the Devas are, well, not the Devas. Deva was an evil god. He's the bad guy. [00:51:30] Katie Dooley: Oh yeah. [00:51:32] Preston Meyer: So I'm curious if that label comes from conflict between the two nations. [00:51:40] Katie Dooley: I don't know. [00:51:41] Preston Meyer: And I haven't been able to find anything that says, oh yeah, sure, "this idea is good, Preston", but I still like it in my head. Next on our list, we have the border. In ancient Norse tradition, we have the Vördr as basically essentially guardian angels. Some of them will follow people around, some of them are trees that you might have in a yard that have been around for a while. And so they'll house minor guardian angels in their root. [00:52:13] Katie Dooley: That's cool. [00:52:14] Preston Meyer: It is kind of cool. The name Vördr basically evolved into what we have in English as warden means watcher, but the word wraith also comes from this root and wraiths, as far as I've been able to find meaning in it is like the scary. [00:52:35] Katie Dooley: Yeah, never positive. I always just think of the ringwraiths but... [00:52:38] Preston Meyer: Sure. Yeah. Bad times. Yeah, they're they're not good friends, but the Vördr are our guardian angels, basically. It's hard to tell how much the idea changed when Christians showed up into their neighborhood, but it probably did change a little bit. Or maybe they're partly responsible for the way we see guardian angels in our Anglo tradition. [00:53:06] Katie Dooley: Yeah. Well. And then it's interesting. There's also demons in ancient Greek mythology spelled d-a-e-m-o-n-s so pronounced the same but not to be confused with demons. [00:53:19] Preston Meyer: In so many words we just drop that A it's interesting that we allow it to persist in this word, but I think there's a good reason for it. [00:53:30] Katie Dooley: Well, and then topical in His Dark Materials, in one of the worlds, everyone has a daemon, which is an animal spirit attached to you. [00:53:40] Preston Meyer: That's spelled with an A.  [00:53:40] Katie Dooley: And it's spelt with an A. And when I was a kid in reading, I had no idea how to say it. [00:53:46] Preston Meyer: Did you say a damon the whole time? Yeah. That's fair.  [00:53:52] Katie Dooley: So demons with an A are positive. And just like the Vördr, they are minor deities that would act as guides, guardian angels or whatever. And it's the same thing. We kind of have this, cuple of traditions that are very influential on Judeo-Christian and Western, therefore Western culture of this idea of guardian angel. [00:54:14] Preston Meyer: Yeah. Looking up angels across all these religious traditions has been pretty cool. There's something like the idea of an angel in almost every religious tradition, though naturally, they're not all going to be called angels. But the idea that there's somebody watching out for you is pretty universal. In the more primal religious traditions, it makes a lot of sense that usually we're talking about ancestors. [00:54:44] Katie Dooley: Right? Their ancestor worship. And we haven't actually talked about... I guess Shintoism, has some ancestor worship, but we haven't talked about Daoism at all, right. Which is a big ancestor worship religion. Maybe that's one we should add to our list right away. I think you're right. But that's basically Mulan. Where she... [00:55:05] Preston Meyer: The good animated one. [00:55:06] Katie Dooley: Yeah, absolutely. Where's she? lights some incense and prays to her ancestors for guidance. [00:55:13] Preston Meyer: And then has to try to keep a straight face while traveling with Eddie Murphy. Oh, now I want to watch Mulan. Thanks. Yeah, so that is a big. topical guardian angels. [00:55:29] Preston Meyer: Right. [00:55:29] Katie Dooley: Mushu is a guardian angel. [00:55:30] Preston Meyer: Here we are in a year of the Dragon. [00:55:32] Katie Dooley: What? It's all coming together. [00:55:35] Preston Meyer: But it's not the year of the Fire Dragon. In the 60 year cycle, it's the year of the Wood dragon. [00:55:40] Katie Dooley: Wow, interesting I didn't know that. You, dear listener, congregant, could be our guardian angels. [00:55:48] Preston Meyer: We would love it so much if you would support this podcast financially. [00:55:55] Katie Dooley: I was going to say you can do that a few ways. So, um, spreadshirt is great. If you want to buy someone a gift, buy yourself some merch, one time fee. You have our Patreon with bonus episodes, extra content from our interviews, if you like a subscription model, there's more coming down the pipe there as well. We also would love your support your warden watcher wraith on our social media. What social media are we on, Preston? [00:56:22] Preston Meyer: We are on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and of course Discord, where we have some pretty great memes and discussions organized into great little channels. I love discord! You can also share this podcast with a friend and give us five stars on Apple Podcast. It's a great way to help us out. [00:56:39] Preston Meyer: Thank you so much for joining us. [00:56:41] Both Speakers: Peace be with you.

Ophanim are spherical angels with eyes all around them. They operate at a very high level of wisdom and have the Spirit of life in them. They run God's transport system and impart upon God's people wisdom for war, revelation, politics, witty inventions, accounting, planning, valuing and teaching. They are connected to Chayot Hakodesh and operate with horses and chariots. Learn more as you listen to this podcast.

Over de schijnbaar eindeloos rechte zandweg bracht ooit paard-en-wagen visch uit de Zuiderzee naar de markt in Arnhem. De voerman, zwartgerokt, zong Psalm 125: wie zich neigen tot kronkelwegen, zal de HEERE doen verdwijnen. Naar boven turend, vergeefs hopend op een glimp van de vurige pendant van zijn krakende kar, de hemelse wielen die duizenden jaren eerder Ophanim waren genoemd. Loodgrijs is de lucht. Maar niet in Belem. Daar schijnt de zon. 23.04 CD In the key of joy (Allophon Media Concord Records) Jorge Benjor: Mas que nada Sérgio Mendes & Brasil ‘77 2'39” CD Sambach (Evil Penguin EPRC 0055) Jorge Benjor, arr. Ivan Zandonade: Mas que nada Linus Roth; Orquestra Johann Sebastian Rio 5'16” 23.12 CD Sambach (Evil Penguin EPRC 0055) Jorge Benjor, arr. Ivan Zandonade: Garota de Ipanema Linus Roth; Orquestra Johann Sebastian Rio 2'03” 23.15 eigen opname Franz Schubert, arr. Maarten Ornstein: Arpeggione Sonate - II Maarten Ornstein, basklarinet 4'58” 23.27 eigen opname November Music Kris Oelbrandt: Psalm 125 Cappella Brabant olv Marc Versteeg; Sietse van Wijngaarden [orgel] 4'41” 23.33 eigen opname November Music Maya Fridman, Aart Strootman: Ophanim Maya Fridman, fc Jongbloed, Cappella Brabant olv Marc Versteeg 12'30” 23.47 CD The First At Last (Just Listen Records JL030) Ruud Bos: TIme and again Jasper Staps (saxofoon) - Rembrandt Frerichs (piano) - Matheus Nicolaiewsky (contrabas) - Mitchell Damen (drums) 4'49” 23.52 eigen opname Ton de Leeuw: Midare Yung-Tuan Ku [marimba] 7'40”

In this episode, I ask the question: what would a software design style inspired by ecological and embodied cognition be like? I sketch some tentative ideas. I plan to explore this further at nh.oddly-influenced.dev, a blog that will document an app I'm beginning to write. In my implementation, I plan to use Erlang-style "processes" (actors) as the core building block. Many software design heuristics are (implicitly) intended to avoid turning the app into a Big Ball of Mud. Evolution is not "interested" in the future, but rather in how to add new behaviors while minimizing their metabolic cost. That's similar to, but not the same as, "Big O" efficiency, perhaps because the constant factors dominate.The question I'd like to explore is: what would be a design style that accommodates both my need to have a feeling of intellectual control and looks toward biological plausibility to make design, refactoring, and structuring decisions?SourcesAndy Clark, Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again, 1997Ray Naylor, The Mountain in the Sea, 2022Erlang processes (explained using Elixir syntax)MentionedBrian Foote and Joseph Yoder, "Big Ball of Mud", 1999TetrisIllinoisNew HampshirePrior workWhat I'm wanting to do is something like what the more extreme of the Extreme Programmers did. I'm thinking of Keith Braithwaite's “test-driven design as if you meant it” (also, also, also) or Corey Haines's “Global Day of Code Retreat” exercises (also). I mentioned those in early versions of this episode's script. They got cut, but I feel bad that I didn't acknowledge prior work. CreditsThe image is an Ophanim. These entities (note the eyes) were seen by the prophet Ezekiel. They are popularly considered to be angels or something like them, and they're why the phrase "wheels within wheels" is popular. I used the phrase when describing neural activation patterns that are nested within other patterns. The image was retrieved from Wikimedia Commons and was created by user RootOfAllLight, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Bible is filled with strange scenes, but few can compare with the opening of Ezekiel when the sky is filled with clouds, fire, and lightning and a vision of a strange entity described as “wheels within wheels” terrifies the prophet so that he cannot speak for a week. But it's hardly the strangest thing we'll encounter in this episode. There's also the worship of a bronze snake, a resurrected Sumerian god, child sacrifice, and Yahweh's own mother.

ETAO PODCAST, EPISODE 170. Matt Brelsford opens his hundred eyes and talks about the “loose collective” that is Tiny Mass Games, the spiritual dimension of game development, and (of course) Ophanim. You can find Tiny Mass Games on itch.io.You can also find Betty & Earl and Retro Wing Prime on Steam.———• Hare are our interviews with … Continue reading "Chance, Curation, Providence, with Matthew Brelsford"

Nuevamente los memes y las publicaciones sobre temas del Ocultismo inundan las redes sociales, esta vez se trata de un tema relacionado a la Angelología, la Theurgia y el Idioma Enoquiano SON LOS ÁNGELES RUEDAS GIGANTES CON OJOS?? Los ángeles Ophanim u Ofanim, son un grupo de ángeles en el judaísmo que son conocidos por su sabiduría; nunca duermen, porque están constantemente ocupados protegiendo el trono de Dios en el cielo. Los Ophanim son comúnmente llamados tronos y en algunas ocasiones “ruedas”. Su nombre proviene de la palabra hebrea “ophan”, que significa “rueda” y esto es debido a la descripción que se le da en la Torá y en la Biblia en el libro de Ezequiel versículo 1: 15-21, que menciona que tienen sus espíritus encerrados dentro de ruedas que se movían junto con ellos adonde quiera que iban. Las ruedas de los Ophanim están cubiertas de ojos, se dice que estos simbolizan su conocimiento constante de lo que está sucediendo a su alrededor, además de que las actividades que ellos realizan se alinean con la voluntad de Dios. Según la biblia Hay varias clases de ángeles, como arcángeles, querubines y serafines. Y todos ellos se ven muy diferentes de esa imagen que tenemos en la mente, y muy pocos tienen alas. Con algunas excepciones, como los serafines, que en realidad tienen seis alas y necesitan de todas ellas para cubrir las diferentes partes de su cuerpo, incluyendo sus ojos para no quedar ciegos. Luego están los tronos angelicales, los cuales son descritos en la Biblia como "ruedas dentro de ruedas", con los bordes llenos de ojos. Luego tenemos la más bella orden de los ángeles, los querubines, la percepción de un querubín es que es un ángel bebé, por lo general con un pequeño arco con flecha y una hoja de protección sobre su modestia. Pero según la descripción que encontramos en la biblia en el libro de Ezequiel 10:14, son descritos como aterradores monstruos con cuerpo de hombre y una cabeza con cuatro rostros que incluye; el rostro de un Oso, el de un hombre, el de una águila y el de un león. En realidad la percepción que se tiene de los ángeles provino de algunos pintores y artistas que se tomaron libertades al retratar a los ángeles, y al igual que un dibujante de caricaturas le pone capa a un súper héroe, ellos les dieron alas lo cual era una forma visualmente interesante para distinguir a los ángeles en una pintura llena de personas normales ( las alas también fueron utilizadas en la iglesia primitiva para indicar que estas criaturas vivían en el cielo). Al Arcángel Miguel y Gabriel, se les dio ropa militar contemporánea. Los querubines, en particular, obtuvieron su cambio de imagen extremo gracias a los escultores del Renacimiento quienes los representaron como bebés lindos bailando y jugando en las tumbas infantiles. Por último, lo de las arpas fue implementado por John Milton, quien escribió acerca de los ángeles "tocando arpas", en El paraíso perdido , básicamente porque era la cosa más linda que podía imaginar. Un poco de historia. Agradecemos a la Parroquia de Santiago Apóstol, aquidiocesis de Toluca por su interesante aportación al canal

164. Moreh Nevukhim 3:2 (part 2) - The Ophanim and the Four Elements of Aristotle with Rabbi Daniel Korobkin at Bayt

Never Angeline Nꙩrth (she/her), is an agender author, artist, and musician living in Olympia, WA. Her creative book-length works include Sea-Witch, Careful Mountain, and Sara or the Existence of Fire. Find her online at https://never.horse/. ASL version coming soon. Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dreamingtheworldtocome Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-PzunkdbVA4yrhBChIXY8od06z8POB4t The Indwelling Dreams of Olam haBa planner is on super mega-sale for $18. Purchase at https://www.dreamingtheworldtocome.com/ while supplies last! This podcast episode was edited by Kim Wayman and Nomy Lamm Convo: Dori Midnight: a friend, collaborator and teacher, abolitionist, liturgist, and magical Jewish witch. Learn more: https://dorimidnight.com/ Tree of Life: a cultural symbol throughout the world, here we are referencing a kabbalistic diagram of the many faces of the divine. Sefer Yetzirah: a very early Jewish mystical text from around the 4th century CE. Shekhinah: the Indwelling Presence of god in the physical world. Asherah Pole: a pre-Israelite symbol of the goddess, a tree or pole Ketubah: Jewish marriage contract B'rit Ahuvim: Lover's covenant, an alternative to the Ketubah Interview: Significance of the number 18: in gematria/Jewish numerology, 18 corresponds with the word chai which means life. Shavuot: The Festival of Revelation on the 6th of Sivan Isaac Luria: A rabbi who lived in Safed in the 16th century, he is known as the father of modern kabbalah Shabbos Bride: Shabbat is often compared to a bride or a queen (shabbos is the Ashkenazi/Yiddish pronunciation), who comes to join us and gives us an extra soul for the 25 hours of Shabbat The Dybbuk: a Yiddish play by S. Ansky written in 1914, about a bride who becomes possessed by the ghost of her beshert (meant-to-be love) on the day of her wedding. Dysphoria: discomfort, distress, dis-ease Sephirot: emanations of the divine on the kabbalistic tree of life This Way to Olam haBa: Anti-trans bills: https://translegislation.com/ Generation Alpha:  https://www.tiktok.com/@davidbowieshousewife/video/7214557539453635883 https://www.tiktok.com/@cllr.little.brighouse/video/7214988473428675845 https://twitter.com/BrokenAngel85/status/1648184015248138240 How to fight back: https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvzge5/how-to-fight-anti-trans-bills-legislation-united-states-activism⁠ Support Trans Lifeline: https://translifeline.org/ Support Transgender Law Center: ⁠https://transgenderlawcenter.org/support/⁠ Song: This is a new song that wormed its way into the world throughout the Omer counting period, just in time for Shavuot! For now it's called the Ophanim song, in reference to biblical angels as described in Ezekiel. 

This week the guys talk about angels, light beings and different cultural depictions of these entities. They also discuss how paintings from the Renaissance era and the Catholic church have formulated our current understanding of angels and their physical appearance.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://diningwithjesus.net/2022/12/09/what-are-the-ophanim/

Many within the realms of Magic, Spirituality, and Mysticism are well aware of heavenly messengers which are called Angels. While many are familiar with the depictions of them as winged celestial beings, their origins and deeds are a bit less well known in today's world. Angels were incredibly important to the Ancient Jewish peoples, and more recent scholarship has begun to uncover to what extent Angels played a role in the nascent Judaic worldview. One of these scholars is my guest for this show- author and professor Dr. Mika Ahuvia!

Australian Man Films Strange "Wheels Within Wheels" In the Sky The Big Bang Theory Has Been Debunked? Is the Pentagon keeping real evidence of UFOs a secret? In the book of Ezekiel in the Bible, the prophet describes seeing something he describes as “wheels within wheels” covered in “eyes” that move without turning. In Biblical and angelic studies, these objects or beings are called Ophanim, and are classified as a type of heavenly creature or angel. But the descriptions have long been of interest to UFO enthusiasts who wonder if this ancient priest was seeing the same kind of things that many people note today. Perhaps these wheels within wheels were the workings of a flying saucers, with the eyes all around being what we would consider lights along their edges. It's an interesting theory, although Biblical scholars have many other, more metaphorical explanations for Ezekiel's visions. But then again, many people have reported seeing similar things in the sky, such as this Australian man. But how would a Bible Believing follower of Christ view this UFO theory of the world? The world is entering into a "Spiritual Awakening" but it's not the good kind. Dr Andy Woods said: "He believes we're in a spiritual awakening a great Spiritual Awakening we're in the middle of it right now and he said however it's not the good kind it's the bad kind it's very dark" I believe what we are seeing unfold right now is a spiritual awakening of great deception. We are going to see a greater push toward believing in UFO's More so called “evidence” of these other world beings will continue to come to light I would not be surprised if in the very near future someone makes “contact with an enlightened being from a parallel universe” This will not be some other world being with enlightenment. This will be demons looking to deceive the world in one more con This is why we are seeing a rise in earth worship Why we see the worship of a bull (Baal) being portrayed at the Commonwealth Games. This is just my opinion. PS: If you enjoy my content, I will think of you while drinking my coffee. – Buy Me a Coffee The Slippery Slope Spotify J Fallon Apple Music J Fallon Spotify J Fallon YouTube The Slippery Slope Apple Podcasts The Slippery Slope YouTube The Slippery Slope Stitcher --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jason-fallon/message

The fireworks are coming, along with some hard self reflection. It's the hardest thing to look at ourselves. Those we trusted are showing themselves. There is something called a citizen ego. Everything we have been living is a lie. Swayed and frustrated. Ophanim sees everything from all angles. Discernment and the literal truth. Every second of time is $$. Fallen angels, Nephilim half breeds, world cataclysms, and God's task force. Life cannot exist without units of time. Once spent, it's gone forever. Think of Lucifer as a currency. How to reward the righteous. Real world context and the Fourteenth Amendment. A defining crisis of the Constitution kind is the pain we must all endure. It's not the first time our government will get an overhaul. We are being forged by fire, and when it's over our nation we will emerge bright, shiny and new. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Life is full of things that we can't explain. Secret Grasp is a paranormal podcast that teaches you about the most mysterious aspects of our world. Join host Dustin Yarc and learn from his more than two decades of experience researching the paranormal, occult, spirituality, conspiracy theories, urban legends, cryptids, and more. New episodes every Tuesday and Thursday morning. Visit us at www.secretgrasp.comThis episode is all about Biblically Accurate Angels.- What are angels?- The angel hierarchy- 5 types of angels (Ophanim, Seraphim, Malakh, Cherubim, Virtues)- Different choirs of angels- Fallen angels- ArchangelsIntro music:50 by tobylaneLink: https://pixabay.com/music/beats-50-1280/License: https://pixabay.com/service/license/Outro music:Half Mystery by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5026-half-mysteryLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Der Eine und der Andere sind an einem wunderschönen Abend nach ein paar Bieren auch dem Wein und einer spontanen Podcastaufnahme verfallen. Wir sahen am nächsten Tag zwar aus wie die Herren der Augenringe aber was macht man nicht alles für qualitativ hochwertigen Content?! Nur für euch! Viel Spaß mit der neuen Folge und vergesst nicht, euch ne Packung Zahnstocher für die Apokalypse zu kaufen!

A Reason For Hope with Pastor Scott Richards! Sharing the Word one question of the heart at a time. Tags: Interracial Marriage, Ophanim, and Contrasts

Uncork the holy water, light the incense and prepare the ritual invocations because this week we're discussing God's Angelic Hierarchies and get to know some of the Archangels which lead them. Journey with us as we investigate the nature of angels in the Hebrew Tanakh, Christian New Testament, Muslim Quran and Solomonic Grimoire to discover the ancient source that informed Angelic nature and their organization into Qabbalistic hierarchy.On this week's episode we discuss:What are Angels?The ElohimEl, The FatherThe Angel of the LordFour Classic ArchangelsAngels in the QuranAncient EgyptMaimonidesThe Chayot HakodeshThe Primum MobileMetatronThe Ophanim, Wheel AngelsRaziel's GrimoireThe Erelim / ThronesTzadkiel, The Eye of GodIn the extended show available at www.patreon.com/thewholerabbit we discuss:Jupiter, Sky DadThe Chashmalim (Bright Ones)Seraphim, Flaming Serpent AngelsThe Uraeus CrownRaphael, Heals The PeepeeThe Lord of HostsVenusArchangel MichaelThe CherubimThe Importance of GabrielSandalphonThe Fall of the AngelsNazis from AldebaranRoyal StarsEnochian Angels…Music By:Spirit Travel Plazahttps://open.spotify.com/artist/30dW3WB1sYofnow7y3V0YoWhere to find The Whole Rabbit:YouTube: https://youtu.be/z4DL6BFdzfMMerch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/thewholerabbit/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0AnJZhmPzaby04afmEWOAVInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_whole_rabbit_/Sources:Zoroastrianhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amesha_SpentaMaimonideshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-DWrWXAIuIChicken Qabalah:https://www.illuminatiorderoto.com/resources/DuQuette-Chicken-Qabalah.pdfTimaeus:http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/timaeus.htmlQuran:https://legacy.quran.com/Egyptian and Hellenistic Connections to the Jewish Idea of Angels (Academic Study):https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/37319575.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjpsayQ18f2AhWwJDQIHYQqAZ0QFnoECAQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2qSmiMDpfSUoFOjvpU9huV"Enochian Vision Magic",  Lon Milo Duquette"The Vision & The Voice", Alister Crowley"Angels & Archangels", Damien Echols"Mastering the Mystical Heptarchy" + "Mastering the Great Table", Scott Michael Stenwick"Three Books of Occult Philosophy", Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa"Rhythms and Visions: The Changing Patterns of Belief" Lawrence BlairSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewholerabbit)

Have you ever wondered about unravelling the spiritual joy of expanding our life force? How should we live our lives if we want to understand the world entirely? In this episode of Spiritual Ecstacy Show, host Gabriel Cousens, M.D talks about The Six Foundations that expands consciousness. The foundations include Yoga, Reiki, Sacred Dance, Tai Chi, Qigong, Ophanim, and more. Tune in to witness how we can expand our life force and improve our way of life through the said foundations.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://diningwithjesus.net/2022/02/01/what-are-the-ophanim/

Subconscious Realms Episode 9:- Ordo Draconis & The Nephilim Bloodline Of Vlad The Impaler with Gary Wayne. Ladies & Gentlemen, it's an honour to have my 1st returning guest & we have an absolute Killer Episode featuring the Phenomenal Sir Gary Wayne. Gary covers in depth the origin of the Ordo Draconis. A Monarchical Order for Elite Royals of a specific Bloodline. What is no coincidence to all this secrecy of Snake Orders is that Vlad III, the Prince of Walachia and the military governor of Transylvania was inexplicably inducted into the Sarkany Rend, the Order of the Dragon, in 1439, by none other than King Zsigmond Von Luxembourg himself. This was the nefarious family of Vlad the Impaler, who the character Dracula was based upon. In fact, Vlad II was known as Lord Draconis, which derived the variant appellation “Dracul.” Vlad III inherited his father's Dragon office, becoming Dracula , the “son of a Dragon.” The under- investigated Vlad was the overlord (Oberon) of the old Scythian traditions; he was known to be of fair skin (pale), with reddish hair and green eyes, a Noble Celt. Vlad was educated in the Mystery School of Solomon in Austria; he was an Adept of alchemy who was also known to be an Adept of the Star Fire culture, the blood- drinking cult of Nephilim. Vlad was affected by sunlight and became a night person, or night operative, known again, not without coincidence, as a night operating Oupiere , as in the traditions of Oberon. Vlad the Oupiere was known to have had his mystical powers enhanced through the consumption of Star Fire" We go into - Sigismund King Of Hungary, Secret Masonic Societies, the manipulation of organised religions, renewal of the pursuits of Thoth the Egyptian God of Wisdom, Polytheist Religions, Nephilim, Raphaim, the 7 Sacred Sciences, Kings Of God - Rex Deus, Seraphim Fallen Watchers, Cherubim, Ophanim, Archangels, Oupier's, Mystery School Of Solomon, Alchemy, Moses, Nimrod, Goliath, Polytheism, Parent & Offspring God's, Gaia, Chronus, Zeus, Poseidon, Isis & Osiris, Tartarius, Baal, Enki, Enlil, Sabaoth - Army of Angels, Hercules, Gnosticism, Titan's Of Earth, Demi-God's, Atlantean's, Olympian God's, Akidna, Tamiel, Witchcraft, Zebelba, Anunnaki, Giants - Albion, Gog & Magog, Cain & Lileth. King Og, King Sol, King David & Jesus Christ. A truly Mind-blowing conversation from start till end with some pretty heavy Vital Knowledge, as Weird & Wild as they come!! *Gary Wayne* https://genesis6conspiracy.com/ https://www.facebook.com/people/Gary-Wayne/100007593408352/ https://twitter.com/garywayne63

Cherubim have four faces (face of man, lion, cow and eagle) and have wheels made of angels called Ophanim. The fire

In case you missed the show, we've got  you covered Here is Saturday Night's wrap up report for our YouTube Live Stream Let's get funky ya'll DOT.CONNECTOR.PODCAST by [BMC] This amazing podcast and video are proudly presented by our sponsor || SIZZLE CITY || Strings of Bling and Other Shiny Things || Call or Click Today || www.SizzleCity.com || 626.274.6028 || Hot Products / Sizzling Prices || It's felt so weird lately hosting the show without Bexx but her schedule has absolutely sucked. Although she's come home with tons of great stories and observations I can't host an entire show myself and assume it was the best it could be..no way. Total opposite actually. It's really a shame because the last two weeks I've had A LOT of unbelievable information and bombshells to drop on everyone and it would've been really nice to have Bexx there to assist with helping people walk, talk and breath after the big reveals came. I know, I know - Doozies for Your Koozie really run a high risk of injury to subscribers, fans, watchers, followers, friends, lovers and even haters - I've said the same thing for years. Just because someone doesn't agree with my thoughts, theories or ideas doesn't mean I want to rip their legs off and watch their brains drip from their ears. Boogie Man Channel Saturday Night Live - cloud cloaked crafts, full project blue beam controlled skies The video version of the podcast is below Boogie Man Channel Saturday Night Live - cloud cloaked crafts, full project blue beam controlled skies  Be sure to visit the podcast library in order to listen and watch more amazing episodes of the DOT.CONNECTOR.PODCAST by {BMC] THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN KOOZIES GET DOOZIED! Trust you, me - that's EXACTLY what happens when I drop a bombshell in my videos. Fans get blown out of their chairs, slammed into walls. We definitely see a lot of bed-wetting from people who try and go to sleep after watching a [BMC] bombshell video. I never recommend watching [BMC] bombshell videos so close to bedtime -- I never do it so why would I think others could handle it better than I? My favorite is when people lose consciousness and start saying weird things like accusing their mother of stealing all of the air and water from Earth. Oh yes, I've seen it all - I just saw it happen last week. Moving on - Saturday Night was a doozie for the koozie. We continued the bombshells coming which we started on Friday night. Bexx was back for the show and it was great to finally have a co-host to continue the winning streak. I have no problem hosting the show by myself I just don't like doing it. Not alone! When there's nobody else but me I have nobody to bounce jokes and conversation off of. We found some very weird world maps in the background of the ISS in many of the NASA videos. The map has been hanging in the background for so long that nobody ever bothered asking about it. I took one look and knew exactly what it was. Check this out! If you look at the 3 real images of the world map which is unfortunately blurry (it's the best I could find) you'll notice a few strange things:  It's hexagonal shape It's missing a huge piece of it It may or may not have extra land to the north east  NOTE: It appears that the huge swath of land that was busted off of the side has moved to the other side. It perfectly matches all of the other maps we see here. NOTE: Two of these maps are by NASA, one of them is a flat Earth map and the last is just a random map which obviously matches the hexagon shape. Today we'll be discussing Skydome Atlantis, the theoretical base and world located in the midst of dark waters - the same dark waters talked about in the bible which were seperated from the waters here on Earth by the almighty using his world-famous firmament which you've probably heard so much about . Skydome Atlantis is the location of entities like Fallen Angels, Elohim, Yahweh, Satans, Cherubim, Ophanim, Seraphim,

Boogie Down Friday - Dope Saturday Showdown - Dope Boogie Man Channel - Dope DOT.CONNECTOR.PODCAST by BMC - DOPE If you weren't lucky enough to catch us live over the weekend I feel extremely bad for you. Although NOT being Boogie or Bexx, I already felt bad for you. HHHEEEYYYYOOOO!!! We've been busy as hell these last two weeks but it's not what you think. I personally, have been knee deep in the strangeness, realness and the research. Last week I made such amazing leaps and bounds I truly thought I was only about a day away from finding the key to the exit of this BS simulator - of course, I'm still here so you know how the hell that went. Just when I thought I was making read headway I (nobody else but me) through a wrench in my spokes. I found a collection of old videos that not only hinted but practically proved that our simulation was one that was being run by entities of even higher intelligence and technology than those that are running our simulation now. Meaning God, religion, the fallen angels, the watchers, the Elohim, the Cherubim, Ophanim, Seraphim, the Demons, the Devils, the Satans and eve the Jhin were all being duped by someone else. Who is smarter than God himself? That was the question that was running off of my tongue all week. This meant that God was fake, religion was fake, all historical landmarks were BS and everything else that I felt safe to endure was all a load of crap. Not only was it all crap but I had been spoon-feeding it to myself my entire life. This felt like shiz - like total shiz. It was the worst feeling in the world to know you had fooled yourself and nobody else is responsible for the shenanigans. It's a sad day in hell when something like that happens. So I ask the dome for some answers. I do this every once in a while and when I do I'm shown messages. Really good messages but I never ask it much to show me these things - first and foremost, I'm forgetful and never remember to do it. Plain and simple. Secondly, the last time it showed me a message after asking it - it was downright scary. The message it showed me last time was all about war. War of our people, our people against our people. Most importantly it was a war against an attack brought on by a germ, a virus or a sickness of some sort. This was before Covid and it has nailed Covid right on the head. It was beautiful! At the time I had no idea what the hell Covid even was. I obviously wasn't scared of something I didn't know but now I'm scared shitless of it now - that's for sure. As you can see Covid has done more than just killed over 600,000 Americans but it's taken what and who was left and ripped them all apart and turned us all against one another with these vaccinations and the mandatory implementations of them. If you've never had a chance to see this video I urge you to take the time to watch it. It's absolutely a work of art! Skydome Atlantis: Signs and Wonders in the Heavens & in the Dome; There is a War Coming! Get Ready   Let's get down to this weekends' live shows for those of you that missed them! There's no way to sugar coat the sort of information you'll learn when you look through the dome with answer as your intent. This isn't a game and i t's not for the light of heart. You come to the dome with an open heart, an open mind and no exceptions or you don't come to the dome at all. It doesn't take you a long time at all of shooting the dome before you realize God truly is all around us. We most definitely live within a closed system, a simulation and the ruler of this realm is NOT who you think. Not unless you're 100% sure Satan truly is the king of the castle. If this takes you by surprise then you'll really, truly be shocked to know that Satan is NOT who you think and not such a bad guy at all. In fact, he is a fair, just and compassionate God. There are at least 8 Satans but Lucifer is whom we are discussing tonight. Tonight you're going to hear it straight.

Today we take a look at how angels were described in various religious texts and they look nothing like you'd expect, unless you imagined nightmarish Lovecraftian beings. These figures include the Seraphim, Cherubim, Ophanim and the Virtues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I've finally got Itai Gal of Itai and the Ophanim on my podcast!!! They traveled to NJ so we got to hang out and chat about Jewish spirituality, music, and other things both tangible and ineffable. You can find them and their music at and on Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, and wherever else you stream and buy music! A link to something Itai mentions in the video:

As Doc pays off his debt to the Church of the Last Light, Crux leads the rest of the crew to seminars and recruitment campaigns for the many churches, cults, and minor organizations hosted within Ophanim.  After a particularly disturbing first show, Korvavev finds a note in his pocket asking for a secret meeting.  Taking Amy, they head to the location and await whatever is planned for them... Episode art by Bee.Sound editing by Kyle.Theme music by Avery Stemmler.Other music by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons 3.0. Roll to Breathe is funded by Patreon. If you like the show, please consider backing us yourself!

Having escaped the Tartarus prison, the convicts of the ship Edge 7 find themselves stuck in the derelict Lethe system.  They spend some time learning about each other as Doc asks questions of the strange psychic gem and Kellen shows Crux how to prepare a nice, warm meal in their high-quality kitchen.  After dinner, the crew heads to the one place where they may find a way to escape this corner of space: Ophanim, the multi-ringed Dyson sphere where all the strange religions, cults, and marginalized xenos may find a place to practice their beliefs without persecution. Episode art by Bee.Sound editing by Kyle.Theme music by Avery Stemmler.Other music by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons 3.0. Roll to Breathe is funded by Patreon. If you like the show, please consider backing us yourself!