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Cherub holding a beer stein
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There was a deck of cards with different drawings on them. For example, there was a cherub holding a beer stein.
--- I'm not sure how to understand it. Does it mean there was a beer stein with a cherub in it?
There was a deck of cards with different drawings on them. For example, there was a cherub holding a beer stein.
--- I'm not sure how to understand it. Does it mean there was a beer stein with a cherub in it?
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Hi That's interesting but also complicated. I don't claim to understand it fully. In some Abrahamic religions, cherubs were servants of ***, like angels, but lower than angels.
- Hi That's interesting but also complicated.
- I don't claim to understand it fully.
- In some Abrahamic religions, cherubs were servants of ***, like angels, but lower than angels.
- At some point in history, they also came to symbolise young supernatural beings who also served humankind.
- They are often shown as bringing pleasure and happiness Possibly it is because cherubs became associated with Greek and Roman gods such as Eros and Cupid In other words, a cherub carrying a symbol of human happiness is very old and is part of European mythology.
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Hi
That's interesting but also complicated. I don't claim to understand it fully. In some Abrahamic religions, cherubs were servants of ***, like angels, but lower than angels. At some point in history, they also came to symbolise young supernatural beings who also served humankind. They are often shown as bringing pleasure and happiness
Possibly it is because cherubs became a
That's interesting but also complicated. I don't claim to understand it fully. In some Abrahamic religions, cherubs were servants of ***, like angels, but lower than angels. At some point in history, they also came to symbolise young supernatural beings who also served humankind. They are often shown as bringing pleasure and happiness
Possibly it is because cherubs became a
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In paintings, these creatures are called "putti."
They are babies, harbingers of love and they have wings.
Cherubs were figures based on the ancient figure of Cupid.
Venus (goddess of love) had a child named Cupid. The father was Mars, the *** of war.
Love and war go together, of course.
Cupid learned to shoot arrows with a bow. If you were shot by Cupid, you would
They are babies, harbingers of love and they have wings.
Cherubs were figures based on the ancient figure of Cupid.
Venus (goddess of love) had a child named Cupid. The father was Mars, the *** of war.
Love and war go together, of course.
Cupid learned to shoot arrows with a bow. If you were shot by Cupid, you would
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