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1. Brace yourselves, guys. The wheel has turned*; thanks to general not-scariness and an interesting pairing that isn't incestuous, I am in the thrall of a new fandom. And I never would have guessed which one, because Supernatural, seriously? I tell you, I love Dean, but it's all about Castiel for me. Without the angels the show was, mostly, very claustrophobic in scope. Broad in mythology, but in terms of narrators, it was all Hunters, and they're apparently not a very diverse group, in terms of background, life experiences, advocation, world-view, or even - let's face it - race or gender. But with Cas, I have an inhuman entity that's possibly been around longer than time itself, who sees time, who doesn't understand humans - but is working on it - who drank wine to celebrate the Christ child's birth. (Yes, this is totally canon for me!) I mean, guys, come on. I have centuries of history to play around with, not to mention theology and all the issues it brings up, the ones that start arguments at my family's holidays once the schnapps start going around: free will, destiny, the nature of God, the nature of existence, etc., etc. Yay.
Which brings me to the point of this whole thing. Lately I've been reading - okay, sometimes skimming - a lot of religious texts, and look what I found in the Book of Enoch. (It's non-canonical, but considered to be canon by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, so that's something! It's not as if I'm viewing this from a historical or even theological perspective, so it doesn't particularly matter; at least with what I'm doing with it, it's all literature.)
"And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants... And Azâzêl taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all coloring tinctures. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. Semjâzâ taught enchantments, and root-cuttings, 'Armârôs the resolving of enchantments, Barâqîjâl (taught) astrology, Kôkabêl the constellations, Êzêqêêl the knowledge of the clouds, Araqiêl the signs of the earth, Shamsiêl the signs of the sun, and Sariêl the course of the moon." - Book of Enoch, Chapter VI
So angels created the witches, did they? The ones who were taught "charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots", and "were made... acquainted with plants." Not to mention the other nasty beasties, not mentioned above, the giants, "who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind. And they began to sin against the birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood."
Reads like an Abominable Snowman article in The Enquirer, don't it? But the potential amount of stuff the angels have fucked up, then and since, is wonderful in a really horrible kind of way.
2. And in other news, I was denied admission to my Early Decision school. Fuck.
*And I know this because I'm reading the fucking Canterbury Tales and thinking, Oh, "Knight's Tale", that's totally about Dean, Sam, and Ruby! A horse fell on Sam! Ha! Except for the fact that it doesn't have anything to do with them, and the analogy really doesn't make sense after all.
Which brings me to the point of this whole thing. Lately I've been reading - okay, sometimes skimming - a lot of religious texts, and look what I found in the Book of Enoch. (It's non-canonical, but considered to be canon by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, so that's something! It's not as if I'm viewing this from a historical or even theological perspective, so it doesn't particularly matter; at least with what I'm doing with it, it's all literature.)
"And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants... And Azâzêl taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all coloring tinctures. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. Semjâzâ taught enchantments, and root-cuttings, 'Armârôs the resolving of enchantments, Barâqîjâl (taught) astrology, Kôkabêl the constellations, Êzêqêêl the knowledge of the clouds, Araqiêl the signs of the earth, Shamsiêl the signs of the sun, and Sariêl the course of the moon." - Book of Enoch, Chapter VI
So angels created the witches, did they? The ones who were taught "charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots", and "were made... acquainted with plants." Not to mention the other nasty beasties, not mentioned above, the giants, "who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind. And they began to sin against the birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood."
Reads like an Abominable Snowman article in The Enquirer, don't it? But the potential amount of stuff the angels have fucked up, then and since, is wonderful in a really horrible kind of way.
2. And in other news, I was denied admission to my Early Decision school. Fuck.
*And I know this because I'm reading the fucking Canterbury Tales and thinking, Oh, "Knight's Tale", that's totally about Dean, Sam, and Ruby! A horse fell on Sam! Ha! Except for the fact that it doesn't have anything to do with them, and the analogy really doesn't make sense after all.
