SPOILERS: Melek Taus and The Good Place
Dec. 8th, 2018 10:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flamingswordSo in S1E1 of The Good Place, right at the very beginning, the angel Michael is wearing this tie. It will be important later.
The Feri have a story about the Yezidi demiurge known as Melek Taus. In thei Yezidi mythology, one of the archangels refused to bow to man, and was given dominion over the Earth as God's rightful intercessor. But the Feri tell it quite a bit differently. To them, Melek Taus was cast out of Heaven for his refusal to bow, and he created a world twisted by his anger at God, full of fire: Hell.
Melek Taus saw the suffering of those humans who were also cast out from Gods love after death, and he was so moved by their suffering that he cried for a thousand years, filling seven giant cisterns. And when he was done filling the cisterns, he poured the water of his pain and understanding out on the Hell he had created, quenching the fire of his own anger, recreating Hell as a paradise.
He now comes to Earth to grant wishes and redeem humans to not be cast out of Heaven's Grace.
The translation of Melek Taus is the Peacock Angel.
Michael is an angel who wears peacock feathers. I don't think that is a coincidence. Not at all.
The Feri have a story about the Yezidi demiurge known as Melek Taus. In thei Yezidi mythology, one of the archangels refused to bow to man, and was given dominion over the Earth as God's rightful intercessor. But the Feri tell it quite a bit differently. To them, Melek Taus was cast out of Heaven for his refusal to bow, and he created a world twisted by his anger at God, full of fire: Hell.
Melek Taus saw the suffering of those humans who were also cast out from Gods love after death, and he was so moved by their suffering that he cried for a thousand years, filling seven giant cisterns. And when he was done filling the cisterns, he poured the water of his pain and understanding out on the Hell he had created, quenching the fire of his own anger, recreating Hell as a paradise.
He now comes to Earth to grant wishes and redeem humans to not be cast out of Heaven's Grace.
The translation of Melek Taus is the Peacock Angel.
Michael is an angel who wears peacock feathers. I don't think that is a coincidence. Not at all.
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Date: 2018-12-09 02:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-12 03:33 pm (UTC)Because of a few friends, I am adjacent to Jewish tumblr, and I know the showrunner and principle writer is Jewish, but the whole show is basically the art of arguing with your fate. It is an extreeemely Judaic show.
Why is modern American theology such a dumpster fire of unquestioning biblical literalism when you can glean so much more meaning and connection to your deity if they are seen as parables open to interpretation?
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