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Subject: Want moar dragons in Destiny? Seven Seraphs could be your answer.

He's right on top of us! I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using...

Ockeghem
Missa Prolationum

I thought I would share some insights on the name of one our our Destiny groups. It is hard to demonstrate Hebrew language and grammar when I cant actually type in Hebrew on B.net, but I will do my best.


Most christian art depicts seraphim (that's more than one seraph) as a type of angel with wings, typically 6 of them.

Why six wings? That comes from a description in Isaiah 6:2. However, there is nothing in Isaiah chapter 6, or elsewhere in the old testimant, that depicts seraphim as humanoid. In fact, the humanoid depiction of seraphim is a post-biblical phenomenon. If we look at biblical imagery surrounding seraphim, the base animal we come to is a snake / serpent.

In Numbers 21:6, God sends hanchashim hasrafim (the seraph serpents) against the Israelites, who were complaining about the food in the wilderness. In Deuteronomy, Moses references the creatures a second time, using the indefinite singular nachash saraf (seraph serpent).

To translate hanchashim hasraphim as "seraph serpents," which many do, is a cop-out. The root of saraf is sin-resh-fey, meaning to burn, especially to burn something completely to ash. So, hanchashim hasraphim can be translated as "the snakes that burn" or "the burning snakes."

Now, remember that we know from Isaiah that seraphim have wings. That means that...

seraph = serpent + has wings + can burn things

Now lets see...what do we usually call a serpent that can fly and breath fire? oh right, DRAGONS!

Still not convinced? In the Septuagint (that is the translation of the Torah into Greek), the word used for seraph is drakon, which is the word dragon is based on.


TL;DR Seven Seraphs could reasonably involve dragons...but probably wont :(

Just for fun, an example of a winged serpent depicted in 8th century BCE Ancient Near Eastern art.

  • 11.06.2012 12:31 PM PDT
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I just saw a green monkey nut shot a small tan lizard(?) in a gunny sack.

Dragons are old news, man.

  • 11.06.2012 12:49 PM PDT

He's right on top of us! I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using...

Ockeghem
Missa Prolationum

inorite? 8th century BCE old.

  • 11.06.2012 12:53 PM PDT

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Just an Average Joe...

Hey cool, thanks guys.

  • 11.06.2012 3:18 PM PDT

And so the war of Gods and Demons shall begin. Tomorrow will end with your heart in my hand!

Love ya! =3

I knew I picked the Seven Seraphs for a reason.

  • 11.06.2012 4:46 PM PDT

Per Audacia Ad Astra

Bungie isn't stupid. Skyrim made dragons boring.

  • 11.06.2012 4:52 PM PDT

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Chimera.

  • 11.06.2012 4:58 PM PDT
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...Oh, I'm sorry, I was just busy thinking about something more important.

"Quotes are cliche!" -Meh

How tasty! I love burnt reptile wings!

  • 11.07.2012 8:33 AM PDT

This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends;
Not with a bang but a whimper.

If Bungie has no Dragons in Destiny, I just might cry.

  • 11.07.2012 8:35 AM PDT

What goes here??

Posted by: xXIHAYD0IXx
If Bungie has no Dragons in Destiny, I just might cry.

Dragons please!!

  • 11.07.2012 8:37 AM PDT