The book that I read was “The Mysterious & Unknown: Angels,” by Stuart A. Kallen. The concepts of evil spirits, death gods and angels are extremely unique pertaining to how they came to be based on different culutre. In American culture and religion, death gods are either good OR bad. They can be viewed as angels or an eil spirit, and I can see why that is so. Angels usually have a positive connotaion when dicussing them, while evil spirits and demons are exactly what tey sound like...evil.
I really do have a whole new persepctive on demons and angels as I found out more information on them. It’s truly not what we see on tv, it’s so much more than that. Things such as the afterworld (the space between heaven and earth), and there is a lot of greek mythology involved as well, which I really idn’t have a clue about. There are also many specific angels and demons that people believe in strictly, which I also didn’t know. There is a lot more information that I had ever thought, and learning about American culture and religion is new and exciting as well. I’m eager to keep researching and learning more.
I really enjoyed how you explained to me what you read in your book in a way that makes me wanna read it too!! It's so amazing how what you are learning in your research is not at all like the movies we see on TV. It's also interesting to see how each and every demon and angel has a different job and different views on things and others.
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