A few more interesting tidbits about our pillar demons: >And I said to him: "Canst thou raise this stone, and lay it for the beginning of this corner which exists in the fair plan of the Temple2?'' And he said: "Not only raise this, O king; but also, with the help of the demon who presides over the Red Sea, I will bring up the pillar of air3, and will stand it where thou wilt in Jerusalem.'' One, it's the demon's idea. They're bound to answer him and all so maybe it's that compulsion, but it raises an eyebrow when Solomon claims to have "outsmarted" the two in the previous passage.
Secondly: >127. I, therefore, Solomon, having heard this, glorified God and adjured the demons not to disobey me, but to remain supporting the pillar. And they both sware, saying: "The Lord thy God liveth, we will not let go this pillar until the world's end. But on whatever day this stone fall, then shall be the end of the world1." Oops, doomsday seal established.
Speaking of Flask Demon's buddy: >And the demon answered: "I, O King Solomon, am called Abezithibod. I am a descendant of the archangel. Once as I sat in the first heaven, of which the name is Ameleouth -- I then am a fierce spirit and winged, and with a single wing, plotting against every spirit under heaven. I was present when Moses went in before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and I hardened his heart. I am he whom Iannes and Iambres invoked homing1 with Moses in Egypt. I am he who fought against Moses 2 with wonders with signs." One winged angel descendant of the archangel who was responsible for all that shit in Egypt. Further proof that pretty much all human endeavor is just crappy fanfiction.
Blake Richardson
"lead heaven" might refer to Saturn actually - the planet's associated with lead in some systems.
Luke Torres
The flaming sword angel would be Uriel.
Luis Brown
New Testament is pretty dope too.
>ke o tritos angelos esalpise ke epesen ek tu uranu astir megas keomenos os lambas ke epesen epi to triton ton potamon ke epi tas pigas idaton >ke to onoma tu asteros legete apsinthos ke ginete to triton is apsinthon ke polli anthropon apethanon ek ton idaton oti epikranthisan
"And the third angel blared, and fell from the sky [a] star enormous, burning as [though a] lantern, and fell on the third of the rivers and on the sources of waters. And the name of the star is (called) Absinth (wormwood); and changed the third [of waters] into absinth (bitterness) and many people died of those waters, because embittered."
The key is to find a translation that keeps the original Koine Greek syntax relatively intact: that verb-first, verbose style of writing makes it sound way more epic than contemporary texts.
Nathan Long
>I like to imagine Angels feathers are hard as steel, and fallen angels have black wings because they literally fell from heaven and burned up on reentry. Funny, I like to imagine fallen angel feathers are dark and heavy like lead, meaning they have difficulty flying up but can dive-bomb with ruinous force. I'm sure that's not canon in the slightest, but when you're boiling Angels of God down to combat-ready prettyboys I feel it works pretty well.
Pic related to the prettyboy thing and nothing else, though it's a good read anyway.
>Also the angels who refused to pick a side in the war in heaven are condemned to forever chase a blank banner in the waiting room of hell, which is both awesome and extremely dickish. Wow, what an asshole. Guess God hates fence-sitters more than he hates prideful traitors.
Brody Thomas
>Most of the others are banished by some variant of "[AngelName], wreck [DemonName]'s shit" spoken aloud, writing the name of their nemesis angel on a piece of paper and wearing it somewhere (around the neck, over the loins, across the temples), or a slightly more elaborate ritual involving the above
100% enochian "kick me" signs. They could not be anything else
Wyatt Jones
Distaste for fence sitters is biblical, god would rather you hate him than refuse to pick a side.
Gabriel Young
It's literally in genesis 3:24. The angel is not always Uriel it depends on the tradition. YWHW places a cherubim and a flaming sword to guard Eden. "So Hedrovethemanout; and at theeastof thegardenofEdenHestationedthecherubimand theflamingswordwhichturnedevery direction toguardthewayto thetreeoflife."
Isaac Ross
I recently read an old medieval dutch account of the knights of the round table and the grail, it ties arthurian legend with new testament and a healthy dose of medieval fanfiction. The grail was created by Joseph of Arimathea, the guy who caught Jesus' blood in a chalice and gave the disciples his tomb to bury him in. He also appears at the end of the story, being the first bishop in Christianity. The description of the grail by Galahad was cool, by looking at the contents you see spirituality incarnate. However, Galahad dies right after looking at it, with just time enough to get a wafer/communion. It's similiar to the book of Exodus where you're not supposed to look directly at God, and Moses has a halo for several days after being in his presence.
Christian Fisher
>King Solomon >And if one of the Romans adjure me by the great name of the power Eleéth, I disappear at once Sorry but the Romans didn't exist at the time of king solomon
