Cosmology

Heavenly liturgy, messenger figures, annunciation, archangelic reception, and ordered celestial hierarchy.

Intermediary Beings

  • Michael
  • Gabriel
  • Raphael in deuterocanonical reception
  • angelic orders

Celestial Hierarchy

The nine orders are especially shaped through Pseudo-Dionysian and medieval reception.

Reflective Inquiry

What does this civilization's cosmology reveal about order, boundary, mediation, and the human attempt to describe the heavens?

Source References

  1. Luke 1
  2. Revelation 4-12
  3. Tobit 12 in deuterocanonical reception
  4. Pseudo-Dionysian hierarchy