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<!--QuoteBegin-ramana+Sep 20 2008, 02:04 AM-->QUOTE(ramana @ Sep 20 2008, 02:04 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Now need to find out where did The Hindu get it from!
Was he influenced by South Indian temple imagery? The temple in Singapore also has such a figure if I recall.[right][snapback]88253[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Oft-used motif in S Indian Hindu temples, almost as common as the must-be-present Yazhis (don't know Romanized spelling, but pronounced ~Yalees). (Yazhi style designs also used later in SE Asian and E Asian Bauddha temples.)
Other kinds of winged creatures I've also seen in latter-day Hindu designs of "Tanjore paintings". Barring "christians did it" stories peddled by the thomas-figment-worshippers, these Tanjore paintings are not any cherubic-influenced designs either, but appear to take their cue from older S Indian Hindu paintings and sculptures.
On the topic of angels, even if not on the topic of Hindu winged motifs, I don't know why christian kiddies in India aren't taught that angels are without exception male - this is what I distinctly recall learning in school in my bygone primary and high school days. Do christians in America and India not learn christian mythology, else why do they imagine there can be female angels? (I remember once seeing an Indian PETA advert featuring Mahima Choudhary dressed up as an angel. I can understand her not being aware of these facts as she's a Hindu. But the rest...)
From what I had to learn: angels in Judaism (and these ideas were stolen/carbon-copied by christianism) are all male, will-less servants of their God: this apparently applies to the entire hierarchy of angels from seraphim to cherubim and certainly all archangels - such as the likes of Gabriel, Raphael and of course "Who Is Greater Than God?" Michael. (IIRC that's the literal meaning of the name Michael - most archangels' names tend to be questions about the Judaic God). I never understood why christians - including the funny Indian variety - called their daughters Gabriela, Michaela,.... Rather an impossibilty.
Also all-male: the Nephilim, the weirdo offspring that would result from human women being assaulted - I kid you not, assault is the right word - by male angels. It's been a while; I think it's in the blabla's Revelations chapter, though I heard this scary nephilim stuff explained to me in NL high school by some classmates angry at christianism. Even christian mythology is not kind to their women.
<!--QuoteBegin-ramana+Sep 20 2008, 02:04 AM-->QUOTE(ramana @ Sep 20 2008, 02:04 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Now need to find out where did The Hindu get it from!
Was he influenced by South Indian temple imagery? The temple in Singapore also has such a figure if I recall.[right][snapback]88253[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Oft-used motif in S Indian Hindu temples, almost as common as the must-be-present Yazhis (don't know Romanized spelling, but pronounced ~Yalees). (Yazhi style designs also used later in SE Asian and E Asian Bauddha temples.)
Other kinds of winged creatures I've also seen in latter-day Hindu designs of "Tanjore paintings". Barring "christians did it" stories peddled by the thomas-figment-worshippers, these Tanjore paintings are not any cherubic-influenced designs either, but appear to take their cue from older S Indian Hindu paintings and sculptures.
On the topic of angels, even if not on the topic of Hindu winged motifs, I don't know why christian kiddies in India aren't taught that angels are without exception male - this is what I distinctly recall learning in school in my bygone primary and high school days. Do christians in America and India not learn christian mythology, else why do they imagine there can be female angels? (I remember once seeing an Indian PETA advert featuring Mahima Choudhary dressed up as an angel. I can understand her not being aware of these facts as she's a Hindu. But the rest...)
From what I had to learn: angels in Judaism (and these ideas were stolen/carbon-copied by christianism) are all male, will-less servants of their God: this apparently applies to the entire hierarchy of angels from seraphim to cherubim and certainly all archangels - such as the likes of Gabriel, Raphael and of course "Who Is Greater Than God?" Michael. (IIRC that's the literal meaning of the name Michael - most archangels' names tend to be questions about the Judaic God). I never understood why christians - including the funny Indian variety - called their daughters Gabriela, Michaela,.... Rather an impossibilty.
Also all-male: the Nephilim, the weirdo offspring that would result from human women being assaulted - I kid you not, assault is the right word - by male angels. It's been a while; I think it's in the blabla's Revelations chapter, though I heard this scary nephilim stuff explained to me in NL high school by some classmates angry at christianism. Even christian mythology is not kind to their women.