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  2. Angels in art - Wikipedia

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    Another angel-like creature mentioned in the Qu’ran (4:97, 32:11) is the zabāniya. A zabāniya is a black angel of hell that brings souls of sinners down to hell to punish them and can be seen in illustrations of The Timurid Book of the Prophet Muhammad’s Ascension (c. 1436 A.D.).

  3. Troides aeacus - Wikipedia

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    The underside of the wings is quite similar to the upside. The females are larger than the males and have dark-brown or black wings. Head, thorax and abdomen of this butterfly are mainly black, with small red patches on the thorax and a yellow underside of the abdomen. Caterpillars are pale brown, with long protrusions resembling thorns.

  4. Hierarchy of angels - Wikipedia

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    Of the angelic orders, he asserted that only the lowest five are sent by God to manifest themselves in the corporeal world, while the four highest remain in Heaven at His presence. [ 5 ] The Chaplet of Saint Michael the archangel, a Catholic devotion also called the rosary of the angels, approved by Pope Pius IX, includes prayers and specific ...

  5. Angel Moroni - Wikipedia

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    In 1983, castings of this angel were placed on the Idaho Falls Temple (8th operating temple) and the Atlanta Temple (21st operating temple). [45] Millard F. Malin's angel, which was placed on the Los Angeles Temple in 1953, is known as the second Angel Moroni statue. His angel was cast in aluminum, stands 4.7 meters high, and weighs 953 kilograms.

  6. Shoulder angel - Wikipedia

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    A guardian angel in a 19th-century print. The shoulder angel often uses the iconography of a traditional angel, with wings, a robe, a halo, and sometimes a harp. The shoulder devil likewise usually looks like a traditional devil with reddish skin, horns, barbed tail, a trident, and in some cases, cloven hooves. Often, both resemble their host ...

  7. Polygonia - Wikipedia

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    P. c-album showing angular wings and typical comma marking. Polygonia (from Greek πολύς - polys, "many" [1] and γωνία - gōnia, "angle" [2]) is a genus of butterflies with a conspicuous white mark on the underside of each hindwing, hence the common name comma.

  8. Ascension of Jesus in Christian art - Wikipedia

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    Ascension of Christ and Noli me tangere, c. 400, ivory, Milan or Rome, now in Munich.See below for a similar Ascension 450 years later.. New Testament scenes that appear in the Early Christian art of the 3rd and 4th centuries typically deal with the works and miracles of Jesus such as healings, the multiplication of the loaves or the raising of Lazarus. [3]

  9. Tennin - Wikipedia

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    Tennin are mentioned in Buddhist sutras, [citation needed] and these descriptions form the basis for depictions of the beings in Japanese art, sculpture, and theater.They are usually pictured as unnaturally beautiful women dressed in ornate, colourful kimono (traditionally in five colours), exquisite jewelry, and stole-like, feathered, flowing scarves--called both Chányī/Tenne (纏衣, lit ...