Angel

[lathany]

With a halo and red hearts on its dress (are all angels male?).

In other news, today is The Wheel session six and the Principal Record has had its shortest update so far. Sadly no guest stars could make it, but maybe next time.

And the Bea quote after bateleur read her new top (from Granny Iris and Grandpa Ken) which declares "Girls Love".

Daddy : "What do girls love?"
Bea : "Boys!"

Comments

The traditional answer

[wimble.livejournal.com]

But boys are icky!

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

are all angels male?

Where they appear in the Bible, it's usually (perhaps always) as either male or of unspecified sex. In art, however, you get female angels: google mentions some (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22female+angel%22+cathedral).

Gnosticism (and maybe also Kabbalah-related stuff?) mentions Sophia, a female angel embodying wisdom. So that's an early precedent of at least one girl angel, if not from an orthodox source.

They won't appear in Muslim art for obvious reasons, and I know nothing about Muslim writing.

[condign.livejournal.com]

Erm, is Sophia actually an angel in Gnosticism? I thought she was an aeon, and the angels were analogues to archons.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Fair enough comment - I was assuming on no particular grounds that it's OK to make everything analogous to angels.

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

If you make everything analogous to angels, things get very confusing, fast.

[lathany.livejournal.com]

There speaks someone who knows more about angels than I do.

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

Well no, I was thinking of the following situation:

Daddy: What do girls love?

Bea: Boys!

Daddy: Is that a bit like angels?

Bea: Err...

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

"And what do boys love?"
"Boys!"

[triskellian]

When I was little, I thought angels were the male version and fairies were the female version. It makes a lot of sense - they're both magical beings with wings and powers, and angels are usually portrayed as men, and fairies often as women.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

It's a cute idea, but actually angels are only classically portrayed as men. Contemporary sources more frequently portray them as women, because airbushed breasts and bikinis look stupid on men.

&lt snigger &gt

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]