The Seraphim

The Seraphim Isaiah 6 New King James Version (NKJV) 6 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. 2 Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. The common perception of the Seraphim is the concept of the European looking Angels, but the earliest usage of the term was ascribe to demons. In Sumerian mythology Demons are not necessarily evil since they work closely with humans and gods to hold at bay the forces of chaos. The word Seraphim comes from the plural of the Hebrew word “Saraph”, which means “to burn.” Could it be referring to the burning rocket engines of the god’s flying crafts? Since the earliest Sumerians must have seen their rulers in the skies represented their gods as “flying serpents” in their early writings. In Isaiah 6:1ff, the Seraphim is described as creatures with six wings and does not retain their serpentine form. They are described as if they now take the form of humans, with faces, hands and feet. It is also interesting to note that Lucifer being the “snake” in Eden has Angelic connections. In the Aztek culture, Quetzalcoatl is depicted as a flying reptile – the Feathered Serpent.

Beth-El

Ancient people pointed to the heavens (firmament) as the abode of the gods and associated anything coming from it as god-sent developing a tradition of recovering meteors and housed them in temples for the veneration of their patrons. Bethel The Ugaritic Divine Council and its gods met on a cosmic mountain at a place where heaven and earth, and were the two rivers intersected- this is the place where the divine decrees were issued from the tents of El. The Kirta Epic spoke of how gods lived in “tents (ahlm)” and tabernacles (mishkan). Baal, the overseer of El’s council held his meetings in the “heights” of Mount Sapanu somewhere in the mountain ranges of the abode of El. Baal’s palace in Sapanu is described as “paved bricks” that made Baal’s house “a house of the clearness of lapis lazuli.” Bethel Ugaritic: bt il, meaning "House of El" or "House of God", Hebrew: בֵּית אֵל, also transliterated Beth El, Beth-El, or Beit El; Greek: