Cherubs

 

This has been mentioned before on She Wolf Night blog, so often every year that it's been done to death, the subject of Valentine's Day. I bring a new twisted version now, broken in different posts, to make it tasty and more exciting. 

That time has come when Valentine's Day gifts are appearing in the shops and exchanged between parties of loved ones. It's a time famously symbolic of love hearts and cute cherubs carrying bows and arrows. Cherubs are variations of little angels that resemble winged babies, but these are actually an altered version of the Roman Pagan god Cupid, an archer who looked like a very handsome man. His Greek counterpart is Eros, son of Ares the god of war and beautiful war goddess Aphrodite. Cupid/Eros is the god of love. There is a tragic love story of Eros who fell in love with a mortal woman named Psyche. 

Renaissance era artists painted mythological scenes and included cute cherubs in them. It then started to create the tradition of cupid babies and love. Cupid and cherub came to mean the same thing today, but what are cherubs? 

While it's become popular to give children endearing names like "cherub" it's all because of the Valentine's Day image of them. However, in the Bible cherubs themselves have a sinister appearance originally. These are part of a religious celestial order of the Cherubim, who look diabolical. They are said to be violent and have the features of scary monsters. In Ezekiel 1:5_11 they're described as having four faces like that of a man, a lion, an ox and an eagle. Each cherub has four wings and two furry legs with cloven hoofs. There isn't that many (if any) Valentines cards showing accurate looking cherubs.  

More: https://the-demonic-paradise.fandom.com/wiki/Cherubim

Article with many cherub pictures posted by Marta Savova HERE

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