Angels
In Judeo-Christian and Islamic mythologies, a class of beings both good
and evil who are intermediaries between God and man. The ancient Greeks
had a comparable concept, the
daimon. Beings with many of the same characteristics ascribed to angels,
such as playing an intermediary role between humankind and the gods,
protecting a person or site, or providing counsel, exist universally throughout
the world.
In the Bible, some angels supposedly aided and protected
humankind, while others wrought God's punishments and brought illness
and destruction. They cohabited with human women and bore a race of giants
called the Nephilim ("fallan ones"), who were supposed to be eradicated in
the Flood.
