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Seven Sheriffs, Sans-serif
Posted By: poenadareDate: 2/3/11 5:53 p.m.

In Response To: Chasing the IP puzzle: Joyeuse [Moderately Long] (CortanaV)

Isaiah is a good place to look. Also, consider St. Francis:

While he was praying on the mountain of Verna, during a forty-day fast in preparation for Michaelmas (September 29), Francis is said to have had a vision on or about September 14, 1224, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, as a result of which he received the stigmata. ... "Suddenly he saw a vision of a seraph, a six-winged angel on a cross. This angel gave him the gift of the five wounds of Christ." Suffering from these stigmata and from an eye disease, Francis ... died on the evening of October 3, 1226, singing Psalm 141.

Bungie sometimes likes to fudge the numbers.

Also, always look at the Latin roots: seraphi[m], singular seraph[us]; Literally "burning one[s]". And note the more Judaic meaning of seraph is "snake".

"Seraphim" appear in the 2nd century B.C. Book of Enoch where they are designated as drakones (δράκονες "serpents"), ... Book of Revelation (iv. 4-8) they are described as being forever in God's presence and praising Him constantly: "Day and night with out ceasing they sing: 'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come.'" They appear also in the Christian Gnostic text On the Origin of the World, described as "dragon-shaped angels".

So now we have dragons?

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=488&letter=S

Some authorities hold that the seraphim had their origin in the Egyptian "seref," a composite, winged creature, half lion and half eagle, which guarded graves, carried dead kings up to heaven, and transmitted prayers thither.

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A brazen serpent brings relief from the effects of the bite of the fiery serpents (Num. xxi. 9 et seq.) which Yhwh sent among his disobedient people in the wilderness. Isaiah (xiv. 29, xxx. 6) speaks of fiery, flying serpents and dragons; and a brazen serpent, Nehushtan, stood in the Temple at Jerusalem, and was an object of worship until the time of Hezekiah, who destroyed it as being idolatrous (II Kings xviii. 4 et seq.). The worship of Nehushtan was plainly a remnant of ancient superstition, and was reconciled with the worship of Yhwh by connecting Nehushtan with the scourge of snakes in the wilderness and the rescue from them (Num. xxi. 9 et seq.).

Some Catholic ruminations:
http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=20370

Enjoy!

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Chasing the IP puzzle: Joyeuse [Moderately Long]CortanaV 2/3/11 2:09 p.m.
     Q4Upoenadare 2/3/11 2:30 p.m.
           Re: Q4UCortanaV 2/3/11 2:36 p.m.
                 Re: Q4UForrest of B.org 2/3/11 3:56 p.m.
                       Re: Q4UCortanaV 2/3/11 4:16 p.m.
     Seven Sheriffs, Sans-serifpoenadare 2/3/11 5:53 p.m.
           Creatures of Light and Darknesspoenadare 2/3/11 6:41 p.m.
                 Re: Creatures of Light and DarknessCortanaV 2/3/11 10:16 p.m.
           Re: Seven Sheriffs, Sans-serifCortanaV 2/3/11 10:03 p.m.
                 Egyptian Angelspoenadare 2/4/11 3:34 a.m.
                       Re: Egyptian AngelsCortanaV 2/4/11 10:03 a.m.
                             OK, Wippersnapperpoenadare 2/4/11 10:38 a.m.
                                   Re: OK, WippersnapperCortanaV 2/4/11 11:46 a.m.
                                         It gets worse...poenadare 2/4/11 12:40 p.m.
                                               Re: It gets worse...CortanaV 2/5/11 10:14 a.m.
                                               Re: Book of Amber *LINK*Jabberwok 2/12/11 11:47 a.m.
                                                     It won't disappoint. *NM*poenadare 2/12/11 12:10 p.m.
                                                     Re: Book of AmberCortanaV 2/16/11 1:19 p.m.
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