Azazel is represented in the Book of Enoch as one of the leaders of the rebellious Watchers in the time preceding the flood ; he taught men the art of warfare, of making swords, knives, shields, and coats of mail, and women the art of deception by ornamenting the body, dying the hair, and painting the face and the eyebrows, and also revealed to the people the secrets of witchcraft and corrupted their manners, leading them into wickedness and impurity ; until at last he was, at the Lord's command, bound hand and foot by the archangel Raphael and chained to the rough and jagged rocks of Duduael (= Beth Ḥadudo ), where he is to abide in utter darkness until the great Day of Judgment, when he will be cast into the fire to be consumed forever ( Enoch viii.

The archangel of air is Raphael, the angel is Chassan, the ruler is Aral, the king is Paralda, and the air elementals ( following Paracelsus ) are called sylphs.

The archangel of water is Gabriel, the angel is Taliahad, the ruler is Tharsis, the king is Nichsa and the water elementals are called Ondines.

The archangel of earth is Uriel, the angel is Phorlakh, the ruler is Kerub, the king is Ghob, and the earth elementals ( following Paracelsus ) are called gnomes.

In some Christian traditions ( like the Orthodox tradition ), Sophia is the personification of either divine wisdom ( or of an archangel ) which takes female form.

The ' archangel ' is the hypothetical person who has perfect knowledge of the situation and no personal biases or weaknesses and always uses critical moral thinking to decide the right thing to do ; the ‘ prole ’ is the hypothetical person who is completely incapable of critical thinking and uses nothing but intuitive moral thinking and, of necessity, has to follow the general moral rules they have been taught or learned through imitation.

* October 16 – After a report of the apparition of the archangel, the island Mont Tombe is dedicated to Michael and renamed Mont Saint-Michel.

In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the title Ancient of Days belongs to Adam, the oldest and earliest man, who is also identified with the archangel Michael.

The largest surviving Byzantine ivory panel ( 428 mm × 143 mm ), is a leaf from a diptych in the Justinian court manner of c. 525 – 50, which features an archangel.

He is syncretised with the Catholic Saint Ulrich of Augsburg and very occasionally the archangel Raphael, both of whom are depicted holding fish.

In one case, the bearer of the news, who is believed to be archangel Gabriel, delivered the news in ( 3: 42-47 ) as he takes the form of a man ( 19: 16-22 ).

Angels, especially the archangel Michael, who were depicted as military-style agents of God, came to be shown wearing Late Antique military uniform.

In this testament, God sends the archangel Michael to Isaac in order to inform him of his impending death.

* The principal ecclesiastical feasts falling within the month are: the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin on the 8th, the Exaltation of the Holy Cross on the 14th, St. Matthew the apostle on the 21st, and St. Michael the archangel on the 29th.

The coat of arms of Arkhangelsk ( Russia ) depicts Michael ( archangel ) | archangel Michael fighting against Satan.

Sister Antónia d ' Astónaco, a Carmelite nun from Portugal, received a private revelation from Michael ( archangel ) | St. Michael the Archangel.

On this standard the archangel, St. Michael, was depicted lying under the feet of the triumphant Lucifer.

* Michael ( archangel )

The Bible itself identifies only Michael as " the archangel " ( book of Jude, verse 9 ) and does not identify any other creatures as being archangels.

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The trading settlement and the island were named after the archangel Michael.

Its name refers to archangel St. Michael.

Sint-Michielsgestel was named after the high and dry sandy land (= Gestel ) and their catholic church dedicated to archangel St. Michael.

( Translation: I confess to almighty God, to blessed Mary ever Virgin, to blessed Michael the archangel, to blessed John the Baptist, to the holy apostles Peter and Paul, to all the saints, and to you, brethren, that I have sinned exceedingly in thought, word, and deed through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault.

The New Testament speaks frequently of angels ( for example, angels giving messages to Mary, Joseph, and the shepherds ; angels ministering to Christ after his temptation in the wilderness, an angel visiting Christ in his agony, angels at the tomb of the risen Christ, the angels who liberate the Apostles Peter and Paul from prison ); however, it uses the word " archangel " only twice: " When the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, ' The Lord rebuke you '" (); and " The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God " ().

In Christanity, whether in the Catholic or the Protestant Bible, the term " archangel " appears only twice: in, where it is applied to Michael, and in, where it is used generically or, according to Jehovah's Witnesses, of the Lord.

The Protestant Bible provides names for two angels: " Michael the archangel " and the angel Gabriel, who is called " the man Gabriel " in.

An archangel () is an angel of high rank.

Jewish literature such as the Book of Enoch mentions Metatron as an archangel, called the " highest of the angels " and the " heavenly scribe ", though acceptance of this angel is not canonical in all branches of the faith.

The word archangel is derived from the Greek ἀρχάγγελος ( arch-+ angel, literally chief angel ).

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that there is only one archangel ( Michael ), based on the literal meaning of the Greek word ἀρχάγγελος: " chief angel ".

Though no other being is identified as an " archangel ," LDS doctrine states that the angel Gabriel was known in mortality as Noah and the angel Raphael is a being of significant standing even though he has never been identified with any mortal prophet.

As people venerated the image of the archangel, they also acknowledged the demon, in case the angel decided not to hear their pleas.

A less charitable yet more apt elaboration of the legend, given the militant disposition of this archangel, was heard by the 15th century traveler, who saw an angel statue on the castle roof.

Because of the healing role assigned to Raphael, this particular angel is generally associated with the archangel.

* The Archangel Raphael serves as the antagonist in the fifth and sixth seasons on the CW Television Network horror / drama series Supernatural, Raphael serving as a traditionalist archangel who seeks to restart the apocalypse after protagonists Dean and Sam Winchester and ' renegade ' angel Castiel averted the Apocalypse by trapping Lucifer and other archangel Michael in Lucifer's Cage.

Sara, meanwhile, awakens in the body of Jibriel, the archangel of water held captive ; revealed to be her reincarnation, Sara is eventually returned to her original body, but finds herself impregnated by the angel Sandolphon, whose soul resides in his brother's body and hopes that she will bear him a body.

The word " archangel " comes from the Greek αρχάγγελος ( archangělǒs ), meaning chief angel, a translation of the Hebrew רב ־ מלאך ( rav-mal ' ákh ) It derives from the Greek archō, meaning to be first in rank or power ; and aggělǒs which means messenger.

* Naamah ( demon ), an angel of prostitution, one of the succubus mates of the archangel Samael in Zoharistic Kabbalah

In modern angelology, Uriel is identified variously as a seraph, cherub, regent of the sun, flame of God, angel of the Divine Presence, presider over Tartarus ( hell ), archangel of salvation, and, in later scriptures, identified with Phanuel " face of God.

According to the Book of Enoch, Sariel ( same angel as archangel Saraqael ( communicants of God ) & Azrael ( whom God helps ) according to Al-Qur ' an, angel of death, malaku I-mawati ) was one of the leaders of angels who lusted after the daughters of men.