Yesterday, Bernie Sander's big mittens crocheted doll raised over $40,000 U.S. and as of last night, the mittens and memes have raised $1.8 million for charity. What might the final total be?
And in the opposite direction: What about the Devil? I find out it is mostly associated with Christianity - in modern biblical translations, the Devil is the adversary of God and God’s people.
History.com tells me: It is common Christian belief that the Devil was once a beautiful angel named Lucifer who defied God and fell from grace. This assumption that he is a fallen angel is referenced to the book of Isaiah which says, “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations.”
Other biblical scholars, however, claimed Lucifer isn’t a proper name but a descriptive phrase meaning “morning star.” Still, the name stuck and the Devil is often referred to as Lucifer.
From Wikipedia: Lucifer is the name of various mythological and religious figures associated with the planet Venus. Due to the unique movements and discontinuous appearances of Venus in the sky, mythology surrounding these figures often involved a fall from the heavens to earth or the underworld.
Interpretations of a similar term in the Hebrew Bible, translated in the King James Version as the proper name "Lucifer", led to a Christian tradition of applying the name Lucifer, and its associated stories of a fall from heaven, to Satan, but modern scholarship generally translates the term in the relevant Bible passage (Isaiah 14:12) as "morning star" or "shining one" rather than as a proper name, "Lucifer". Present day translations have reverted back to morning star.
I wonder what it is to be a Biblical scholar. Is that the job? To take short passages and interpret them into large, expansive meanings?
And I haven't even gotten near to finding out about making a deal with the Devil or selling one's soul to the Devil. That is my topic I wanted to research today... Another time.
This week's assignment is montages - putting two images together to create something new, using Photoshop's "Blending modes". Here are the results so far that have worked.
