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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Angels Are Not Named

The word angel derives from the greek a anglos, and would have been pronounced with a hard g up until the end of the thirteenth century. The actual characteristics and individual identities of the angels are not really explored in what's usually considered canonical, biblical literature. A gabriel is also sometimes referred to as the angel of death, or thogh the end f the one who will blow the final trumpet before the end of time. He's also sometimes described as death bad angel who eases people into the next life. But growing up in christianity, i often gravitated towards the weirdness of angels, because they were supernatural outsiders, demi godlike travellers.

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