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Tetramorph tetra- (four) +‎ -morph (shape, form) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tetramorph#Etymology

When you have time read the links that I posted in the second half of #66, "Parts of the bible where angels are referred to as eldritch abominations". It addresses a lot of your questions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_(archangel)#New_Testament Michael is mentioned explicitly in Revelation 12:7–12, where he does battle with Satan and casts him out of heaven so that he no longer has access to God as accuser (his formal role in the Old Testament).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archangel The Bible itself uses the term only two times, with no mention in the Old Testament, and does not mention a hierarchy of angels in any detail. Archangel is derived from Greek archángelos (ἀρχάγγελος), with the Greek prefix arch- meaning 'chief'...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiery_flying_serpent The term translated as "fiery serpent", saraph, appears elsewhere in the Book of Isaiah to signify the seraphim, the singular form of which is also saraph. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehushtan In the biblical Books of Kings (2 Kings 18:4...

The links I posted earlier in this thread ("Parts of the bible where angels are referred to as eldritch abominations") addresses much of these questions posted in this thread today.

I suppose the disconnect may be that some are using the term "angel" in a generalized sense of a "creature of celestial (upper planar) origin" while others are using it in a more specific sense of "divine messenger". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/angel#Etymology_1 I believe the 'wheels within...

Devas, planetars, and solars in (A)D&D to me seem to be derived from the cosmology of Theosophy by way of An Encyclopaedia of Occultism by Lewis Spence. Parts of the bible where angels are referred to as eldritch abominations

I'd personally prefer not to muck up this thread, but would any of you be interested on my take in a new thread on "biblically/theologically accurate" angels/celestials? I've brainstormed some ideas based on the description of celestial creatures in An Encyclopaedia of Occultism by Lewis Spence...

https://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=743 https://pinside.com/pinball/machine/dungeons-and-dragons

You gotta "Lean into It"...

I was not previously aware that Rob Kuntz was using the same verbiage, that I have noted in the past, that self-defined "Libertarians" tend to use... :confused:

The Frank Zappaest of Mothers.

Camilla!