Hm. well, it should be finished (or at least in a recognizable first-draft state) by Tuesday. I'm workin'. I've had to do a rush job just to get the plot in, because details can be filled in after I figure out how to get from A to B to C to D to E (when before I sat down to write I wasn't totally sure what C and D were).
I'm not really hugely into Kabbalah, though I do generally think things that are a little arcane and specialised are interesting. (Interestingly, though, the JCC on the corner had some Kabbalah classes at the beginning of this year, which I thought was unusual.) Anyway, a lot of "angel lore" is related to Kabbalah stuff. This story came from a dream I had, and I wanted to use the idea that some devils were thought to be fallen angels, and in "fairy" countries, the fairies were viewed as demons when xianity came into vogue**. what if fairies, angels, pagan gods/goddesses, and demons were all essentially the same class of being? I used the eisheth zenunim primarily because the concept of this sex-angel/demon fit my idea. Samael comes into the story later, he's pretty debonair, I hope, and a little effete.
** (this is still around today; when i was a kid conservative Xians preached against The Smurfs, saying that they each represented their own "devil spirit"; now they do the same against Pokemon, and would do the same to virtually any show portraying small nonhuman creatures with particular qualities.)
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Date: 2001-11-26 05:28 am (UTC)I'm not really hugely into Kabbalah, though I do generally think things that are a little arcane and specialised are interesting. (Interestingly, though, the JCC on the corner had some Kabbalah classes at the beginning of this year, which I thought was unusual.) Anyway, a lot of "angel lore" is related to Kabbalah stuff. This story came from a dream I had, and I wanted to use the idea that some devils were thought to be fallen angels, and in "fairy" countries, the fairies were viewed as demons when xianity came into vogue**. what if fairies, angels, pagan gods/goddesses, and demons were all essentially the same class of being? I used the eisheth zenunim primarily because the concept of this sex-angel/demon fit my idea. Samael comes into the story later, he's pretty debonair, I hope, and a little effete.
** (this is still around today; when i was a kid conservative Xians preached against The Smurfs, saying that they each represented their own "devil spirit"; now they do the same against Pokemon, and would do the same to virtually any show portraying small nonhuman creatures with particular qualities.)