tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942242690598747577.post2080978002859798386..comments2024-01-04T01:37:37.579-08:00Comments on Of Epic Proportions: <p> A Blog on Myth and Mankind </p>: Angelic GenitaliaJustin M...http://www.blogger.com/profile/11269347672438551889noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942242690598747577.post-12619695562880707312009-06-21T03:49:47.646-07:002009-06-21T03:49:47.646-07:00I've enjoyed reading your blog, and I had a fe...I've enjoyed reading your blog, and I had a few things I thought I'd add :)<br /><br />A minor quibble: you say that Jewish myths go back 6000 years; I'd say the writings from the Old Testament are a lot later than that. Even if you assumed that Moses was the author of the first few books, they'd only be 3200 years old; chances are they're closer to 2500 years old. Some of the ideas in them might be older, of course.<br /><br />In Milton's Paradise Lost I think angels are all described as theoretically male, but capable of commingling their ethereal bodies in a way that's analogous to sex. CS Lewis' Perelandra/Voyage to Venus is a sort of sci-fi retelling of of Paradise Lost, and he saw gender as a fundamental principle of creation, and represents the Angels of Mars and Venus as male and female respectively, although without any genitalia (or breasts, in Venus' case). I don't know how much tradition he drew upon, but he discusses a lot of the Medieval ideas of angelology in his commentary on Paradise Lost and was a something of a theologian himself, so his depiction may not be his own creation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com