#raphael — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #raphael, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.laviezine.com/1619299/week-end-a-marseille-echappees-belles-2/ Week-end à Marseille – Échappées belles #belles #cosmopolite #culture #DeCasabianca #découverte #eau #échappées #échappéesBelles #F5 #France5 #gastronomie #IsmaëlKhelifa #jérôme #jovillard #khelifa #magazine #mer #Montagne #nature #pitorin #PlacesToTravel #raphaël #SaintPaulTroisChâteauxFranceTour #sophie #SouthOfFranceDestinations #SouthOfFranceTour #SouthOfFranceTravel #SouthOfFranceTrip #SouthOfFranceVacation #Terre #Tiga #tourisme #TourismeVert #traditions #Voyage
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"This is where I watched my parents die, Raphael."
All shot practically using real figures, lighting and miniature sets.
#cowabummer #tmnt #teenagemutantninjaturtles #batman #photography #miniatures #toyphotography #crossover #dc #photographicart #visualart #comicbook #photooftheday #raphael #actionfigurephotography #photographicart
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"This is where I watched my parents die, Raphael."
All shot practically using real figures, lighting and miniature sets.
#cowabummer #tmnt #teenagemutantninjaturtles #batman #photography #miniatures #toyphotography #crossover #dc #photographicart #visualart #comicbook #photooftheday #raphael #actionfigurephotography #photographicart
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DATE: August 3, 2026 at 11:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: Eye tracking reveals the hidden power of painted hands
URL: https://www.psypost.org/eye-tracking-reveals-the-hidden-power-of-painted-hands/
A new psychological study reveals that pointing gestures in early modern paintings act as hidden guides for human vision. Viewers barely look at the painted fingers, yet these small details completely reshape how people observe and interpret the artwork. The research was published in a scientific journal.
In art history, the way viewers interact with painted pointing hands has been discussed for centuries. During the Renaissance, artists began incorporating specific characters into their compositions to direct the audience. One such character is the admonitor. This figure typically gazes directly out at the viewer while pointing a finger toward an important element in the main scene.
The concept of the admonitor originated from fifteenth-century theatrical plays. A mediating character on stage would catch the eyes of the audience and point to the main action. Painters adopted this technique to organize their images and guide the eye along a desired path. Over time, these pointing gestures multiplied and evolved, serving as visual tools to indicate spatial relationships, sequential events, and symbolic connections.
Despite the prominence of pointing hands in classical art theory, modern researchers had never tested these assumptions with empirical experiments. Temenuzhka Dimova, a researcher at the University of Vienna, led a team to investigate whether these painted fingers actually influence modern viewers. Nicolas Lapique of the Broad Institute and Raphael Rosenberg of the University of Vienna also collaborated on the project. The team wanted to determine if people focus on pointing hands, if they follow the gestures to their targets, and if this small detail transforms the overall understanding of a scene.
The researchers recruited eighty-four adults between the ages of eighteen and thirty-four. None of the participants had an educational background in art history. The team selected fifteen European paintings from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, featuring works by renowned artists like Caravaggio, Raphael, and Rembrandt.
To isolate the effect of the pointing hands, the researchers created a subtle digital trick. They used photo editing software to seamlessly erase the pointing forefingers from the digital reproductions of the paintings. The participants were divided into two groups, and each participant viewed a mix of original and edited paintings, always seeing only one version of any given artwork. None of the participants reported noticing any digital modifications.
The experiment took place in two consecutive stages. In the first stage, participants sat in front of a high-resolution monitor and observed each painting in silence for forty seconds. An eye-tracking camera recorded the exact movements of their dominant eye. The equipment measured exactly where their gazes landed and how long they lingered on specific spots.
The eye-tracking data revealed a surprising pattern regarding the painted hands. Viewers spent an average of just half a second looking directly at the pointing fingers. This amounted to about one and a half percent of their total viewing time. The painted fingers themselves attracted very little direct visual attention.
Even though the fingers barely registered in direct vision, their presence heavily directed the rest of the viewing experience. In the original paintings, the presence of a pointing finger caused viewers to look repeatedly at the intended target of the gesture. Participants also spent substantial time looking at the face of the character who was pointing.
The tracking software recorded frequent, rapid eye movements bouncing between the pointing character’s face and the target object. Viewers seemed to search for meaning by linking the person making the gesture with the object being indicated. The researchers found that viewers often established strong visual relationships between these specific areas.
The altered paintings produced a completely different viewing pattern. Without the pointing gestures to guide them, participants tended to fixate on whatever character was in the center of the canvas. They also spent more time inspecting minor decorative elements, such as embroidered clothing, cuffs, or background drapery. The absence of a pointing finger essentially trapped the viewer’s gaze on the main character’s face or scattered it among purely aesthetic details.
Seventeenth-century art theorists proposed the idea that every painted element is coordinated with all others. They believed each detail fulfilled a specific function within the whole composition. The eye-tracking data supports this historical theory. Removing a single painted finger disturbed the visual equilibrium of the entire image, forcing viewers to build completely different relationships between the remaining characters.
After the silent observation phase, the researchers conducted a second round of testing. They showed the paintings to the participants again and asked open-ended questions about what they saw. The verbal responses demonstrated that the hidden fingers did more than move eyes around the canvas. They altered how people understood the stories within the paintings.
When viewing the original version of Caravaggio’s artwork featuring the sacrifice of Isaac, many participants specifically mentioned the ram that an angel points toward. Those looking at the modified version rarely mentioned the animal. The pointing gesture successfully highlighted a key narrative element in the original piece.
In a painting by Raphael that features two distinct visual levels, viewers of the original piece felt the upper and lower scenes were deeply connected. They identified two pointing characters as the main link between the levels. Viewers of the altered piece thought the two scenes were entirely separate.
The way a viewer follows a pointing gesture is not always perfect, however. The researchers noticed that viewers sometimes focused on unintended objects that happened to sit along the invisible line drawn by the pointing finger. In Caravaggio’s famous painting of Saint Matthew, two painted figures point their fingers toward the left side of the canvas. Instead of looking all the way across the scene to the actual saint, viewers often stopped their gaze on a young man sitting much closer to the pointing hands.
This ambiguity shows that while painted gestures command attention, they do not guarantee a person will find the exact intended target right away. If an unintended element sits closer to the pointing hand, the viewer’s gaze might land there first. The gesture simply creates a general region of scrutiny where the viewer searches for meaning.
Future studies might explore how these viewing patterns change when individuals receive brief contextual clues before looking at the art. Testing individuals with formal art history education could also reveal whether trained eyes follow the same hidden paths as those of the general public.
The study, “Brief Glance, Lasting Effect: Depicted Pointing Gestures Transform the Perception of Paintings,” was authored by Temenuzhka Dimova, Nicolas Lapique, and Raphael Rosenberg.
URL: https://www.psypost.org/eye-tracking-reveals-the-hidden-power-of-painted-hands/
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DATE: August 3, 2026 at 11:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: Eye tracking reveals the hidden power of painted hands
URL: https://www.psypost.org/eye-tracking-reveals-the-hidden-power-of-painted-hands/
A new psychological study reveals that pointing gestures in early modern paintings act as hidden guides for human vision. Viewers barely look at the painted fingers, yet these small details completely reshape how people observe and interpret the artwork. The research was published in a scientific journal.
In art history, the way viewers interact with painted pointing hands has been discussed for centuries. During the Renaissance, artists began incorporating specific characters into their compositions to direct the audience. One such character is the admonitor. This figure typically gazes directly out at the viewer while pointing a finger toward an important element in the main scene.
The concept of the admonitor originated from fifteenth-century theatrical plays. A mediating character on stage would catch the eyes of the audience and point to the main action. Painters adopted this technique to organize their images and guide the eye along a desired path. Over time, these pointing gestures multiplied and evolved, serving as visual tools to indicate spatial relationships, sequential events, and symbolic connections.
Despite the prominence of pointing hands in classical art theory, modern researchers had never tested these assumptions with empirical experiments. Temenuzhka Dimova, a researcher at the University of Vienna, led a team to investigate whether these painted fingers actually influence modern viewers. Nicolas Lapique of the Broad Institute and Raphael Rosenberg of the University of Vienna also collaborated on the project. The team wanted to determine if people focus on pointing hands, if they follow the gestures to their targets, and if this small detail transforms the overall understanding of a scene.
The researchers recruited eighty-four adults between the ages of eighteen and thirty-four. None of the participants had an educational background in art history. The team selected fifteen European paintings from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, featuring works by renowned artists like Caravaggio, Raphael, and Rembrandt.
To isolate the effect of the pointing hands, the researchers created a subtle digital trick. They used photo editing software to seamlessly erase the pointing forefingers from the digital reproductions of the paintings. The participants were divided into two groups, and each participant viewed a mix of original and edited paintings, always seeing only one version of any given artwork. None of the participants reported noticing any digital modifications.
The experiment took place in two consecutive stages. In the first stage, participants sat in front of a high-resolution monitor and observed each painting in silence for forty seconds. An eye-tracking camera recorded the exact movements of their dominant eye. The equipment measured exactly where their gazes landed and how long they lingered on specific spots.
The eye-tracking data revealed a surprising pattern regarding the painted hands. Viewers spent an average of just half a second looking directly at the pointing fingers. This amounted to about one and a half percent of their total viewing time. The painted fingers themselves attracted very little direct visual attention.
Even though the fingers barely registered in direct vision, their presence heavily directed the rest of the viewing experience. In the original paintings, the presence of a pointing finger caused viewers to look repeatedly at the intended target of the gesture. Participants also spent substantial time looking at the face of the character who was pointing.
The tracking software recorded frequent, rapid eye movements bouncing between the pointing character’s face and the target object. Viewers seemed to search for meaning by linking the person making the gesture with the object being indicated. The researchers found that viewers often established strong visual relationships between these specific areas.
The altered paintings produced a completely different viewing pattern. Without the pointing gestures to guide them, participants tended to fixate on whatever character was in the center of the canvas. They also spent more time inspecting minor decorative elements, such as embroidered clothing, cuffs, or background drapery. The absence of a pointing finger essentially trapped the viewer’s gaze on the main character’s face or scattered it among purely aesthetic details.
Seventeenth-century art theorists proposed the idea that every painted element is coordinated with all others. They believed each detail fulfilled a specific function within the whole composition. The eye-tracking data supports this historical theory. Removing a single painted finger disturbed the visual equilibrium of the entire image, forcing viewers to build completely different relationships between the remaining characters.
After the silent observation phase, the researchers conducted a second round of testing. They showed the paintings to the participants again and asked open-ended questions about what they saw. The verbal responses demonstrated that the hidden fingers did more than move eyes around the canvas. They altered how people understood the stories within the paintings.
When viewing the original version of Caravaggio’s artwork featuring the sacrifice of Isaac, many participants specifically mentioned the ram that an angel points toward. Those looking at the modified version rarely mentioned the animal. The pointing gesture successfully highlighted a key narrative element in the original piece.
In a painting by Raphael that features two distinct visual levels, viewers of the original piece felt the upper and lower scenes were deeply connected. They identified two pointing characters as the main link between the levels. Viewers of the altered piece thought the two scenes were entirely separate.
The way a viewer follows a pointing gesture is not always perfect, however. The researchers noticed that viewers sometimes focused on unintended objects that happened to sit along the invisible line drawn by the pointing finger. In Caravaggio’s famous painting of Saint Matthew, two painted figures point their fingers toward the left side of the canvas. Instead of looking all the way across the scene to the actual saint, viewers often stopped their gaze on a young man sitting much closer to the pointing hands.
This ambiguity shows that while painted gestures command attention, they do not guarantee a person will find the exact intended target right away. If an unintended element sits closer to the pointing hand, the viewer’s gaze might land there first. The gesture simply creates a general region of scrutiny where the viewer searches for meaning.
Future studies might explore how these viewing patterns change when individuals receive brief contextual clues before looking at the art. Testing individuals with formal art history education could also reveal whether trained eyes follow the same hidden paths as those of the general public.
The study, “Brief Glance, Lasting Effect: Depicted Pointing Gestures Transform the Perception of Paintings,” was authored by Temenuzhka Dimova, Nicolas Lapique, and Raphael Rosenberg.
URL: https://www.psypost.org/eye-tracking-reveals-the-hidden-power-of-painted-hands/
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #EyeTracking #PointingGestures #PaintedHands #RenaissanceArt #ArtHistory #VisualPerception #Caravaggio #Raphael #Rembrandt #ArtResearch
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Today's pick: The Adoration of the Magi (ca. 1480) - Filippino Lippi. #art #Lippi #AdorationOfTheMagi #Raphael
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Today's pick: The Adoration of the Magi (ca. 1480) - Filippino Lippi. #art #Lippi #AdorationOfTheMagi #Raphael
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 Mutant Nightmare with Pierce Lydon (Spawnography)
By 2005, Konami had made three TMNT beat-em-ups based on the 2003 animated series, which is the kind of commitment usually reserved for tax filings or long-term relationships. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Mutant Nightmare landed that November on GameCube, PS2, Xbox, and Nintendo DS as the trilogy’s closer, and Konami sent it off in style by giving it the series’ first E10+ rating, as if four years of shell-based violence had finally crossed some invisible threshold of Too Much.
The game loosely adapts the show’s third season across four “Episodes,” which means the Triceratons invade Earth, Agent Bishop kidnaps Splinter for reasons that presumably made sense to somebody in a government facility somewhere, and Shredder shows back up to remind everyone that retirement isn’t really a thing that happens to ninja warlords. Along the way you can pour experience points into skill scrolls, transform into a Dino Turtle or an Ultimate Turtle depending on the mood, and, if you clear the first Episode, unlock a modified version of the 1991 arcade classic Turtles in Time, which is Konami’s way of saying “here’s the good one, in case this one doesn’t land.”
Joining me to sort the Triceratons from the Foot Ninjas is Pierce Lydon of Spawnography, the podcast where he and George Marston work through Todd McFarlane’s entire Spawn mythology one hellish arc at a time. Pierce has already survived one trip through the Play Comics gauntlet with me on Spawn in the Demon’s Hand, so they know exactly what they signed up for this time: showing up, being extremely knowledgeable, and getting talked into yet another licensed beat-em-up nobody asked for.
So grab a ninja scroll, pick a turtle, any turtle, and let’s find out whether Mutant Nightmare sent Konami’s turtle trilogy out on a high note, or whether the Triceratons should’ve just stayed home.
Learn such things as:
- When is it appropriate to make a game without the most iconic villains?
- How much can you cram into a game when you know it’s your last one?
- What magical things can you find at your public library?
- And so much more!
You can find Spawnography on BlueSky, and Instagram, and of course those Apple Podcast, YouTube, and Spotify places. Or you can find Pierce as a wonderful human on Instragram @lapsed.punk.
If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.
If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.
Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.
You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicspodcast on Threads, @playcomics on YouTube, or the Play Comics website.
If you want to hear Chris talk with Karrington Martin about the lessons we learned from children’s media and how crazy it is that we’re supposed to just forget about that now that we’re adults, then Sugar, Spite, and Everything is Fine is probably something you should check out.
A big thanks to Glitterjaw Presents and Byrds Eye View Comics for the promos today.
Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who knows the difference between ooze, slime, and muck. But doesn’t want to tell us what the difference is.
#ArchieComics #Donatello #DreamwaveProductions #Gamecube #IDW #Image #Konami #Leonardo #Michelangelo #Mirage #NintendoDS #PierceLydon #PS2 #Raphael #Xbox -
https://www.laviezine.com/1593134/le-luberon-de-village-en-village-echappees-belles/ Le Luberon, de village en village – Échappées belles #AimeFranceTour #belles #cosmopolite #culture #DeCasabianca #découverte #eau #échappées #échappéesBelles #F5 #France5 #FranceDestinations #FranceTour #FranceTravel #FranceTrip #FranceVacation #gastronomie #IsmaëlKhelifa #jérôme #jovillard #khelifa #magazine #mer #Montagne #nature #pitorin #PlacesToTravel #raphaël #sophie #Terre #Tiga #tourisme #TourismeVert #traditions #Voyage
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🎭 ■ Raphael: "En ningún momento pensé en retirarme ni en alejarme durante mucho tiempo" ■ Hablamos con el artista, que actuará este jueves 18 de junio en el Icónica Santalucía Sevilla Fest.
https://www.huffingtonpost.es/life/cultura/raphael-en-ningun-momento-pense-retirarme-alejarme-f202606.html?int=MASTODON_WORLD -
🎭 ■ Raphael: "En ningún momento pensé en retirarme ni en alejarme durante mucho tiempo" ■ Hablamos con el artista, que actuará este jueves 18 de junio en el Icónica Santalucía Sevilla Fest.
https://www.huffingtonpost.es/life/cultura/raphael-en-ningun-momento-pense-retirarme-alejarme-f202606.html?int=MASTODON_WORLD -
https://www.laviezine.com/1586106/emission-speciale-un-week-end-au-vert-a-angers-echappees-belles/ Émission spéciale : un week-end au vert à Angers – Échappées belles #AngersFranceTour #belles #cosmopolite #culture #DeCasabianca #découverte #eau #échappées #échappéesBelles #F5 #France5 #FranceDestinations #FranceTour #FranceTravel #FranceTrip #FranceVacation #gastronomie #IsmaëlKhelifa #jérôme #jovillard #khelifa #magazine #mer #Montagne #nature #pitorin #PlacesToTravel #raphaël #sophie #Terre #Tiga #tourisme #TourismeVert #traditions #Voyage
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Before I even read the label at the Raphael exhibit I saw this and recognized it right away. Manet’s painting was done 347 years after the engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi and Raphael. Amazing stuff. Imagine someone doing a remix of your work in the year 2373.
#Art #Engraving #Painting #Raphael #Manet #Raimondi #JudgementOfParis
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Before I even read the label at the Raphael exhibit I saw this and recognized it right away. Manet’s painting was done 347 years after the engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi and Raphael. Amazing stuff. Imagine someone doing a remix of your work in the year 2373.
#Art #Engraving #Painting #Raphael #Manet #Raimondi #JudgementOfParis
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A TV-Show With Animated Characters: #teenagemutantninjaturtles
#tmnt1987 #leonardo #donatello #michaelangelo #raphael #apriloneil #bebopandrocksteady #footclan #shredder #krang #caseyjones #ratking #leatherhead #splinter #mousers #usagiyojimbo
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Spirituality & Religious Studies @spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com@spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com ·Archangel Gabriel
In Judaism, Christianity, & other Abrahamic religions, Gabriel (or even Cebrail (Djebrail) in some cultures) is an archangel with the power to announce God’s will to mankind as the messenger of God. He’s like the Abrahamic Apollo. He’s mentioned in the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament, the New Testament, & the Quran.
In the Book of Daniel, Gabriel appears to the prophet Daniel to interpret his vision. Gabriel also shows up in the Jewish apocryphal 1st Book of Enoch & other Hebrew writings.
Along with the archangel Michael, Gabriel is described as the guardian angel of the Israelites, defending them against the angels of the other peoples. Many sects of Christianity revere Gabriel as a saint.
In the New Testament’s Gospel of Luke, Gabriel appears to Zachariah, predicting the birth of John the Baptist. Gabriel later appears to Mary, mother of Jesus, to announce that she would conceive & bear a son via a virgin birth.
Islam regards Gabriel as an archangel sent by Allah/God to different prophets, including Muhammad (PBUH). The first 5 verses of the Al-Alaq (96th chapter of the Quran) are believed by Muslims to have been the 1st verses of revelations given by Gabriel to Muhammad (PBUH).
The only book in the Hebrew Bible that explicitly mentions Gabriel is the Book of Daniel, & Gabriel appears to the prophet Daniel to explain his visions (Daniel 8:15-26, 9:21-27). In Daniel’s final vision, an unnamed angel appears to him & speaks of receiving help from the archangel Michael in battle against the Prince of Persia (not the video game) & also Michael’s role in times to come. This unnamed angel is thought to be Gabriel.
Though not named specifically, the “man clothed with linen” mentioned in the Book of Ezekiel chapters 9 & 10 is interpreted as Gabriel in Yoma 77a of the Babylonian Talmud.
There are many references to Gabriel in the Book of Enoch. According to this book, Michael, Uriel, Raphael, & Gabriel complain to God about the many wrongs perpetuated by Azazel & Samyaza. Especially the fact that they revealed “eternal secrets” & sins to mankind & defiled themselves with human women who later gave birth to giant offspring. Or, 1 of our fav subjects to circle back to, the Nephilim. (We will be doing the Nephilim in a future post. It’s currently being researched right now. Along with the Watchers, the Nephilim’s dads.)
As a result, God decides to destroy the Earth (which has been corrupted by those pesky fallen angels; these fallen angels were led by Azazel & Samyaza) & all of its inhabitants except for Noah. God sends Gabriel & the other archangels to go after the fallen angels & cast them into the darkness until the day of their judgment.
In Chapter 20, Gabriel is listed as 1 of 7 holy angels who watch. In Chapter 40, Gabriel is listed as 1 of 4 presences who stand on the 4 sides of God. These 4 archangels will be the ones to cast the fallen angels into the abyss of condemnation on Judgment Day.
According to Rabbinic Judaism, Gabriel (along with Michael, Uriel, & Raphael) is 1 of the 4 angels that stand at the 4 sides of God’s throne & serve as guardian angels of the 4 parts of the Earth. Michael stands on/at the right hand of God. While Gabriel (who ranks beneath Michael) stands at the left. Michael & Gabriel often work together. But Michael is mainly occupied in Heaven, while Gabriel (as the messenger of God) typically executes God’s will on earth.
Gabriel is also associated with the metal gold (the color of fire). Alongside Michael, Gabriel is described as the guardian angel of Israel, defending the Israelites against the angels of the other nations.
Gabriel is 1 of God’s archangels in Kabbalah literature. He’s pictured working in concert with Michael as part of God’s court. He’s identified with the sefira (or the Counting of the Omar. It’s a period of 49 days known as sefira(h).) of Yesod (this is a node in the kabbalistic Tree of Life.). Gabriel isn’t to be prayed to because only God can answer & sends Gabriel as his agent/messenger/courier.
According to Jewish mythology, in the Garden of Eden there’s a tree of life or the “tree of souls” that blossoms & produces new souls, which fall into the Guf, the Treasury of souls. This is located in the 7th Heaven. Gabriel reaches into the Treasury & takes out the 1st soul that comes into his hand.
Gabriel’s 1st appearance in the New Testament is found in the 1st part of Chapter 1 of Luke. This is where the annunciation of the birth of John the Baptist is. John’s dad, Zachariah, was childless because John’s mom, Elizabeth, was barren. An angel shows up to Zechariah to announce the birth of his son. When Zechariah questions the angel, the angel names himself as Gabriel (Luke 1:5-25).
Gabriel’s next appearance is in the 2nd part of Luke, chapter 1. This time, to announce the birth of Jesus to Mary (Luke 1:26-38). In the 1st part of the passage, the angel identifies itself as Gabriel; in the 2nd part of the passage, the angel doesn’t. It’s the author of Luke who calls this angel Gabriel.
Gabriel is more frequently referenced in early Christian pseudepigraphic texts (these are texts whose authorship isn’t by who it’s claimed to be or a real author attributed to some bigger name of the past) than in Amy of the canonical Biblical texts.
Gabriel is mentioned in some of the infancy Gospels, like the Nativity Gospel of Mary, Protevangelium of James, & First Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ. Gabriel is also mentioned in some of the early Christian apocalyptic texts, like the Greek Apocalypse of Ezra & Second Book of Enoch.
In Gnosticism, angels are portrayed as belonging to a pantheon of spiritual beings involved in the creation of the world. According to 1 ancient Gnostic manuscript, the Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit. (Which we have posted!) Gabriel is a divine being & inhabitant of the pleroma (This refers to the total of divine powers.) that existed before the demiurge (This is an figure who is responsible for fashioning & maintaining the physical universe). There’s also a reference to Gabriel in Chapter 17 of the Gospel of Judas.
In the theology of the Mormon Church, Gabriel is believed to have lived a mortal life as the prophet Noah. The 2 are regarded as the same individual. Noah was his mortal name & Gabriel being his heavenly name.
Gabriel’s fast day was exclusively celebrated on March 18 between 1588 & 1921. The feast of St. Gabriel was included by Pope Benedict XV in the General Roman Calender in 1921 for celebration on March 24.
In 1969, the day was officially transferred to September 29 for celebration in combination with the feasts of Michael & Raphael. Today, the September 29 date (known as Michaelmas) has been adopted by the Catholic Church, Church of England, Lutheran faith, Anglican Communion, & Western Orthodox churches.
The Eastern Orthodox Church & those Eastern Catholic Churches that follow the Byzantine Rite (a.k.a. the Rite of Constantinople is a liturgical rite developed in the Eastern Christian church of Constantinople.) celebrated the Feast of the Archangels (or Synaxis of the Archangel Michael & the Other Bodiless Powers) on November 8.
For the churches that follow the Julian Calendar, November 9 currently falls on November 21 of the modern Gregorian Calendar (a 13-day difference).
The Eastern Orthodox commemorate Gabriel not only at the Feast of the Archangels, but also on 2 other days: March 26 the “Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel” & celebrates his role in the Annunciation. July 13, a.k.a. the “Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel.”
The Coptic Orthodox Church celebrates Gabriel’s feast of 13 Paoni, 22 Koiak, & 26 Paoni. The medieval Coptic work Investiture of the Archangel Gabriel, attributes the feast day of 22 Koiak to the day Gabriel was given the rank of archangel in Heaven.
The Ethiopian Church celebrates Gabriel’s feast of December 18 (in the Ethiopian calendar). A sizable number of its believers making a pilgrimage to a church dedicated to “St. Gabriel” in Kulubi & Wonkshet on that day.
Gabriel is in many places in the Quran. He’s revered as 1 of the primary archangels & as the Angel of Revelation in Islam. He’s primarily mentioned in the verses 2:97, 2:98, 66:4 of the Quran. However, the Quranic text doesn’t refer to him as an angel. In the Quran, the archangel Gabriel appears named in 2:97 & 66:4, as well as in 2:98, where he’s mentioned along with the archangel Michael.
Tafsir (this is like the Jewish Midrash) narrates that Muhammad saw the archangel Gabriel in his full angelic splendor only 2x. The 1st time was when he received his 1st revelation. Islamic tradition holds that Gabriel was sent to numerous pre-Islamic Biblical prophets with revelation & divine injunctions, including Adam, whom Muslims believe was consoled by Gabriel sometime after Fall, too. He’s known by many names in Islam, such as “keeper of holiness.” In Hadith traditions, Jibril is said to have 600 wings.
In Islam, the tree of souls is referred to as the Sidrat al-Muntaha. This is identified as a Ziziphus spina-christi. This is also known as Christ’s thorn jujube.
Muslims believe that Gabriel was tasked with transmitting the scriptures from God to the prophets & messengers as Asbab al-Nuzul or revelation. Asbab al-Nuzul is occasions or circumstances of revelation names the historical context in which Quranic verses were revealed from the perspective of traditional Islam. When Muhammad was questioned which angel is revealing the holy scriptures, he told the Jews they’re revealed by Gabriel.
Muslims also Revere Gabriel for several events that predate what they regard as the 1st revelation narrated in the Quran. Muslims believe that Gabriel was the angel who informed Zechariah of the Nativity of John the Baptist. As well as Mary about the future nativity of Jesus.
Gabriel was 1 of 3 angels who had earlier informed Abraham of the birth of Isaac. Gabriel also makes a famous appearance in the Hadith of Gabriel, in which he questions Muhammad on the core tenets of Islam.
Gabriel is also believed to have delivered punishment from God to the Sodomites by leveling the entire city of Sodom with the tip of his wing. According to a Hadith, Gabriel has the ability to regulate feelings or perception in humans. Particularly happiness or sadness.
Gabriel is believed to have helped Muhammad overcome adversaries significantly against an ifrit during the Night Journey. An ifrit is a powerful type of demon in Islamic culture. Gabriel is also believed to have helped Muhammad overcome his adversaries during the Battle of Badr.
The Yazidis worship 7 Archangels, including Gabriel (Jabra’il), Michael (Mikha’il), Raphael (Rapha’il), Dedra’il, Azra’il, Shamka’il, & Azazil. They’re emanations from God with which God entrusted the world. Yazidis associate Gabriel with Tawusi Melek (the “Peacock Angel”).
Mandaeans venerate Ptahil as the “4th Life.” Ptahil is an uthra (a divine messenger of the light), identified with Gabriel, who creates the poorly made material world with the help of Ruha, a sinful & fallen female ruler who inhabits the World of Darkness.
The creation of the material world occurs by God’s command. But is delegated to Ptahil (a subservient emanation or uthra) with the assistance of Gabriel & others.
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Raffaello - Sposalizio della Madonna, c.1920s - Cesare Capello Cartolina
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@Ibnussabel Es solo una anécdota. Yo solo trabajé unos meses en #Salud y como administrativo pero no lo veo muy grave a no ser que empiece a olvidar cosas más básicas como ducharse a diario, tomarse medicamentos o saltarse citas y horarios de cosas importantes.
En momentos de estrés, yo olvido palabras y nombres. Ayer mismo, no me acordaba de #Raphael y andaba diciendo: "ese que no era ni Camilo Sesto ni Perales y era muy relamido..." :ablobcatwobfast:
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