Ethan's Book of Angels Wiki

**Welcome to the Ethan's Book of Angels Wiki!**
To support my hobby of researching angels this wiki is to be a repository of and organizer for the information I have gathered and continue to obtain regarding "angels" and other spirits from the Abrahamic traditions as well as the general cosmology of those traditions and the texts and sources from which we learn about them.

## Types

Angels

Archangels

Chariots of Fire

Cherubim

Demons

Living Creatures

Ophanim

Princes

Seraphim

## Characters

Hmm... if I remove the angels from this list... and replace it with a link to list of angels this ends up not as a character section but a type section,,, especially if I do the same with demons and gods and monsters... Perhaps a page should be made listing all the characters...

List of Angels

Asmodeus

Baal

Baphomet

Beelzebub

Belial

God

Leviathan

Moloch

## Places

The Earth

The Heavens

Hell

Sheol

Tartarus

## Other

Angelology

Flaming Sword

Flaming Whip

Heavenly Weapons

Men as Trees Walking

Paradigms

Possession

Texts

Trees

Water

## Serious Stuff

Homosexuality

Inerrancy

## Purpose

As it stand now the purpose is to track the evolution of the ideas over time and across locations and people groups.

I will be including on this wiki other topics as I have interest in them.

## Focus

I am primarily concerned with the perspective of conservative evangelical protestant Christians in the American South with a focus on the ancient near-eastern contexts of the Bible and the evolution of these beliefs from the ancient near-east to the beliefs and traditions of the conservative evangelical protestant Christians of today's American south.

My starting point and main focus at the beginning will be with ancient texts that make up the Protestant Christian Bible and contemporary texts that help to shed light on the canonical texts. As I exhaust those categories (if I ever do) I will move forward mostly towards the context I was raised in seeking to reverse-engineer the evolution of traditions, interpretations and paradigms. I am also interested in the evolution of all the traditions that stem from sister streams and have interacted with each other. As I encounter their texts and their fossil records I will ad them to this wiki. I focus on my context not because I wish to neglect the traditions and perspectives of others but out of necessity. I must anchor and start from somewhere and this is where I choose to start. I am excited by each cosmos I have heard of and hope to one day venture to each in turn and see the vibrant worlds there in.

## Biases

These are the biases of which I am aware. As I have stated before I was raised in the context of a Protestant Evangelical Conservative Baptist Church in the American South. My childhood church was more moderate than is the stereotype of that category. Not necessarily in teaching but in practice. Gentler in approach than many churches are said to be. I am man of European descent so there are those perspectives to consider. In addition I am attracted to men whether you wish to label me gay/homosexual or same-sex-attracted that is an additional lens I see things through. That and the following bias will likely disqualify any observation or opinion I make in the eyes of many. At this time I do not believe in the existence of God. You may label me an atheist or an agnostic but regardless my personal world view is naturalistic. I do not assume the existence of that which cannot be observed or reproduced. That is not to say that as I study that I ignore that perspective. On the contrary I seek to not only collect texts but points of view. There is a remarkable number of ways to read every text. There are so many groups and each has their own way of explaining and reading the words and talking about the history of each text. Then each individual will also have their own perspective. The ideas of each person do not make an entire belief system on their own that can feasibly be quantified but it is yet an important thing to remember.

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