jhmcd2 opened this issue on Apr 10, 2008 · 306 posts
patorak posted Sat, 12 April 2008 at 4:39 PM
*Try this, go and do some research on what a 'Cherub' actually is. Hint: It's not a naked baby with oversized genitalia and wings. Those flying rugrats you see in Renaissance art are actually 'Putti' a motif from ancient Greco-Roman art, often associated with eroticism, leisure, playfulness and the goddess Aphrodite. ie they are actually icons of sexuality and romantic love and not some 'expression of divine innocence' or some such bullcrap.
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putti I quote- The putto (pl. putti) is a figure of a pudgy human baby, almost always male, often naked and having wings, found especially in Italian Renaissance art. The figure derives from Ancient art but was "rediscovered" in the early Quattrocento. These images are frequently, and erroneously, confused with cherubs.[1]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherub I quote-
This article is about the supernatural entity. For the band, see Cherubs (band). For the Robert Muchamore book series, see CHERUB . For the depictions of winged babies erroneously called cherubs, see Putto . For the sailing dinghy, see Cherub (dinghy).
A cherub (Heb. כרוב, pl. כרובים, eng. trans kruv, pl. kruvim, lat. cherub[us], pl cherubi[m]) (sometimes pronounced the way it is spelled) is a supernatural entity mentioned several times in the Old Testament (specifically the Torah, Ezekiel, and Isaiah), in the Book of Revelation (a New Testament text), and in numerous modern texts, such as Paradise Lost.
The correct plural can be written as cherubim or cherubs. Because most English speakers are unfamiliar with Hebrew plural formation, the word cherubims is sometimes used as a plural, such as in the King James Bible[1].
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