On Angels

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msbauju wrote:

As I recall, my art history professor explained that the Christian

"winged being" angel image was borrowed from Greek depictions of the

goddess of victory, Nike. Similarly, the halos so common in

Christian art were borrowed from depictions of haloed emperors, with

the halo in those original depictions indicating rank or nobility.

Dear ms and Ardis and everyone who is interested in the topic of angels,

 

In my studies and experience of shamanism (and I believe that tantra

is essentially a very shamanic type of work), halos around the heads

of shamans go all the way back to cave drawings. It has been posited

that the halo is a kind of light energy emenated from the shaman (or

angel or deva) that is a reflection of their abilities, including the

ability to traverse between the worlds of life and death, or in

shamanistic terms, the lower world, the upper world, and the world or

ordinary reality. Indeed there is a rich tradition dating far back

into the existence of humans for these qualities and beings. Shanti ~

Linda