In the ancient Hebrew language, there are certain words which are quite commonly translated today - and they are mistranslated but one cause of this could simply be that in more modern times we are more cognizant of 'onomatopoeia' than of the kinds of visual mimicry in script components which were the basics of writing in the ancient past.
The Greek Oroboros - the Cosmic Serpent that eats itself - is another ancient word that is hardly formed from some sound which echoes its sense. Nobody (on Earth at least if even anywhere for that matter) has heard what particular sound such a thing is making!
The word of course is made using the 'o' letter after the circular shape of the imagined creature.
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However, in short, we need to just consider that the Book of Enoch might simply be using (and by the way, there is grammar in there, or diacritics; just a lot of nouns and verbs and some pronouns and that's about it. It's difficult to place all of these words into a complete meaningful sentence very often... Translators have done but they made it all up as to how things really should be formulated) - might simply be using letter shapes to convey ideas:
'Oth' means a rainbow in Hebrew. And 'Oph' means arched around or arced like part of a wheel.
It has eyes all around the front of its face and wheels, wheels which go round and round - very fast. |
You will realize when you have read the linked text what this is all referring to.
But anyway, the 'Ophanim' might not be wheels.
The line from the Book of Enoch simply says 'they have eyes that are penetrating (see in all directions) and are arced all around the rim of the brow of their face.' Not - 'they have eyes looking in every direction all the way around a wheel!' lol
And sure, R2D2 is on wheels, but that's a Hollywood movie after all. And there is no reason they know things any better than anyone else who does not have actual direct accurate knowledge.
Living in the human Earth situation, we tend to be only vaguely conscious that the biological organism that is our dynamically-growing bodies, is slowly transporting chemicals and molecules from nutrition and the metabolism all the time, with the effect that our physical bodies are changing quite a lot all the time; except that it is over enough length of time for our perceptions to pass over noting these changes too much.
The magazine imagery industry in particular is constantly shaping the popular culture's ideas about what beauty is or should look like - and that is because it is so dependent upon still pictures/photographs of people.
Perry, dressing to take the attention of Dylan Meyer away from... lol |
The fact is, 'people' - a person - is a continuously changing molecular composition around a set of 'image instructions.' There is no 'one single image' of any single person that necessarily means that no other visually slightly different version of them is 'not them.' 'They' are in any case, something other than the outward image.
I would personally say though, that 'they' are something in addition to, rather than actually completely different from...
The mythological angels who descended in Babylon and 'taught humans the arts of cosmetics' and various other 'bad things(!)' have at least imparted to the human cultural view of attractiveness, an idea that there is transportability to the person and also that the inner personality can express itself (that is, literally show itself) by projecting thoughts and ideas and preferences onto completely external, outside, defined inanimate things.
The Bible says 'the hairs on your head are numbered.' But that is only an accessible way to talk about how exactly mathematically enumerated and controlled and organised things are.
There's too much pop fantasy about people like Tesla and others who opined that the Universe is made up of number/s and maths. That is true to an extent but it is much much more than that.
Just step through the doorway one time. |
There is technology somewhere... ...that can recombine your atoms and molecules so that you are 'there' as a nine-year old, or, just as easily - just as easily - as a fifty-year old.
It's time to stop thinking in too simplistic terms about all of these things.
You take a walk into any large city, into any place where there are a lot of re-combinations of atoms and molecules, and you will soon enough realize that suddenly just 'appearing' in a rainbow ship from Arcturus or wherever is not such a good idea.
At least not in broad daylight in the full glare of the Earth general masses of people and the media.