Ok. Why do angels have bird wings, and devils bat wings? This is a quite consistent depiction in art etc. Why is this, what is going on?
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| From Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair ... Fourth edition", p 104, 1892 |
I have been pondering this for some time, and a sort of revelation came to me. The situation is complex, but it can be boiled down to a simple fact:
Angels are birds. Devils are mammals
Why is this significant. And what *are* birds, really? Birds are dinosaurs (seriously, look it up).
Angels are the survivor of the meteor impact. They are a hyper advanced civilization, watching earth from far above in their sky-cities, the heavens if you will. They have existed for millions of years, as they achieved *stability* - they do not change, they are "sustainable". Maintaining the Status Quo, the Divine Order, is paramount.
Once the dust from the great meteor strike settled (if it was a meteor strike...), mammals became somewhat dominant on earth. The bird-angels became curious about this new form of life - advanced, but still nowhere near as advanced as they, of course - and did some experiments. They created the devils, as a lark perhaps. Gave them bat wings. For a time, the devils lived in the sky cities in small numbers, slowly growing, seen as "lesser" than the Angels.
With time, humans eventually came to the scene. The angels grew concerned - intelligent mammals, not under their control? Could they become rivals?
So they started instructing them in "morals". As Nietzsche pointed out, this morality was a "servant" morality. Not suitable for leadership. Designed to control the humans.
The mammal-devils were horrified - they felt kinship with these humans. They wanted to instruct the humans about freedom, self-determination. They started agitating.
The bird-angels were offended and cast the traitor devils out of their celestial bases; and started warning humans about not trusting the devil's words - their temptation would lead them to perdition. But if humans were "good" they would go to the "heavens" - a lie, of course.
Preposterous some of you may say... BUT: Who is said to be our secret rulers?
Lizard people. And lizards have the same origin as birds... it's an other conspiracy with a small nugget of truth inside. ;)
I love the idea of pulling in extinction theory as a way to explain this. I'd say that a better explanation of devils is that they're the first mammals to figure out some secret that the angels have. Since bats are the only mammals capable of true, powered flight, they must have figured something out that the angels didn't want the filthy mammals to know. So they cast down the devils and give humans whatever they need to give to make them distrust devils.
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