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Tennin ( 天人, lit. "Heaven (ly) Person"), which may include Tenshi ( 天使, lit. "Heaven (ly) Messenger"), Ten no-Tsukai ( 天の使い, lit. "Messenger (s) of Heaven"), Hiten ( 飛天, lit. "Flying Heaven") and the specifically female version, the Tennyo ( 天女, lit. "Heaven (ly) Woman/Women"), are a divine kind of spiritual beings found ...
The rendering of "ángelos" is the Septuagint's default translation of the Biblical Hebrew term malʼākh, denoting simply "messenger" without connoting its nature. In the Latin Vulgate, this meaning becomes bifurcated: when malʼākh or ángelos is supposed to denote a human messenger, words like nuntius or legatus are applied.
A guardian angel is a type of angel that is assigned to protect and guide a particular person, group or nation. Belief in tutelary beings can be traced throughout all antiquity. The idea of angels that guard over people played a major role in Ancient Judaism. In Christianity, the hierarchy of angels was extensively developed in the 5th century ...
In the angelology of different religions, a hierarchy of angels is a ranking system of angels. The higher ranking angels have greater power and authority than lower ones, and different ranks have differences in appearance, such as varying numbers of wings or faces.
Archangel. The Annunciation by Paolo de Matteis. Archangels ( / ˌɑːrkˈeɪndʒəls /) are the second-lowest rank of angel in the Christian hierarchy of angels, put forward by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in the 5th or 6th century in his book De Coelesti Hierarchia ( On the Celestial Hierarchy ). [1] [2] [3] The word "archangel" itself is ...
A seraph ( / ˈsɛrəf /, "snake, from burning one, meaning a venomous snake “; pl.: seraphim / ˈsɛrəfɪm /) [a] is a celestial or heavenly being originating in Ancient Judaism. The term plays a role in subsequent Judaism, Christianity, and Islam . Tradition places seraphim in the highest rank in Christian angelology and in the fifth rank ...
Sidereus Nuncius (usually Sidereal Messenger, also Starry Messenger or Sidereal Message) is a short astronomical treatise (or pamphlet) published in Neo-Latin by Galileo Galilei on March 13, 1610. [1] It was the first published scientific work based on observations made through a telescope, and it contains the results of Galileo's early ...
Portal. v. t. e. In Judaism, angels ( Hebrew: מַלְאָךְ, romanized : mal’āḵ, lit. 'messenger', plural: מַלְאָכִים mal’āḵīm) are supernatural beings [1] that appear throughout The Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible ), rabbinic literature, apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, Jewish philosophy and mysticism, and traditional Jewish liturgy ...