Random find OTD
Feb. 8th, 2004 04:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taratemimaMore connections.
In "Lily," the lyrics mentions something about "Gabriel before me/Raphael behind me/Michael on my left side/Uriel on my right." I knew I heard it somewhere.
From here:
This night-prayer offers an interesting illustration of the tenacity of magical and superstitious forms. One of its constituents invoke the protection of the angels: "at my right Michael, at my left Gabriel, before me Uriel, behind me Raphael." This is nothing more than a Jewish version of the ancient Babylonian incantation, "Shamash before me, behind me Sin, Nergal at my right, Ninib at my left,"
This is called the Krit Shema, recited before Shema.
Then there is the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.
And in other news, I wish that my mother's boyfriend would stop screaming about nothing and everything we do wrong.
In "Lily," the lyrics mentions something about "Gabriel before me/Raphael behind me/Michael on my left side/Uriel on my right." I knew I heard it somewhere.
From here:
This night-prayer offers an interesting illustration of the tenacity of magical and superstitious forms. One of its constituents invoke the protection of the angels: "at my right Michael, at my left Gabriel, before me Uriel, behind me Raphael." This is nothing more than a Jewish version of the ancient Babylonian incantation, "Shamash before me, behind me Sin, Nergal at my right, Ninib at my left,"
This is called the Krit Shema, recited before Shema.
Then there is the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.
And in other news, I wish that my mother's boyfriend would stop screaming about nothing and everything we do wrong.
