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The_Serpent
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All traditional artwork shows the Saints with Halos. But, what are Halos? Is it merely symbolic to designate a Saint; or did Saints really have them?:getholy:
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bzkoss236
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It is a symbol to designate that someone is holy. I’m not sure exactly how it started, though.
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Ion
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When a halo is broken, what is left are horns…
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Rete
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Most religious peoples more sophisticated than simple paganism and ancestor worship have a similar concept. It seems universal. I think there may be multiple simultaneous meanings to it. Here are some:
(1) This person is enlightened by wisdom and therefore does not walk in darkness.
(2) This person is illuminated with knowledge which allows them to see more clearly than most other persons.
(3) The person has ideas which, like a flame, can spread. This seems more obvious to me in Muslim iconography and art, where the halo really is depicted as a kind of fire.
(4) This person has experienced some form of transcendence or consolation. Depending upon the tradition that could mean spiritual enlightenment as in the Eastern religions or possibly something like the Beatific Vision in Christian tradition. While I think this meaning has merit, I am not sure it really describes the origin of the symbol, or is necessarily implied in every given example.
That’s just a guess, though. What I do think is that, as humans began to emerge from tribal and pagan worship around the world, they began to intuit and reason out the nature of God. As a person begins to unravel the deeper ideas and mysteries of theology, they do seem to light up as it were. They seem to become more present and aware. The symbology’s true origin might be as simple as that; a simple feeling one gets when observing and interacting with people of great wisdom.
(1) This person is enlightened by wisdom and therefore does not walk in darkness.
(2) This person is illuminated with knowledge which allows them to see more clearly than most other persons.
(3) The person has ideas which, like a flame, can spread. This seems more obvious to me in Muslim iconography and art, where the halo really is depicted as a kind of fire.
(4) This person has experienced some form of transcendence or consolation. Depending upon the tradition that could mean spiritual enlightenment as in the Eastern religions or possibly something like the Beatific Vision in Christian tradition. While I think this meaning has merit, I am not sure it really describes the origin of the symbol, or is necessarily implied in every given example.
That’s just a guess, though. What I do think is that, as humans began to emerge from tribal and pagan worship around the world, they began to intuit and reason out the nature of God. As a person begins to unravel the deeper ideas and mysteries of theology, they do seem to light up as it were. They seem to become more present and aware. The symbology’s true origin might be as simple as that; a simple feeling one gets when observing and interacting with people of great wisdom.
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andy92
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Revelation 22:5
Take it metaphorically or not I believe this is where it comes from and this is what I was taught.
Hope this helps.
Halos are the Glory of God shining thru the person. Throughout revelations John states that Jesus’s Glory will be sufficient enough for the light of the world.
Take it metaphorically or not I believe this is where it comes from and this is what I was taught.
Hope this helps.
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rossum
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It started before Christianity. See Halo (religious iconography) and the references in that article.
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TobyFrancis
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I agree with your thoughts… Halo is related with people of great wisdom…
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roselily
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Do you hear your grandparents say about that, Brothers Sisters?
-That grandchild born with a light circle around head,
Halo moves with the head move.
All can see.
And after grow up can not see by eyes.
-That grandchild born with a light circle around head,
Halo moves with the head move.
All can see.
And after grow up can not see by eyes.
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Robert_Sock
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I think of it as a spiritual aura. If you use tomography, you would see this aura on the picture itself; the heads of deeply spiritual people actually radiate this type of heat energy.
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Alberti_Devoveo
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New Advent has an article about it the use and origin of the nimbus (halo)
I believe that Stephani is St Stephen, but not 100% sure on that.
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Ismael
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It’s a game
Ok, ok, sorry I just had to make that joke.
Anyway as people as said before: it’s an ‘artistic symbol’ for holiness… it was borrowed from other religions where it usually meant ‘wisdom’ or ‘enlightment’.
In Christian iconography it meant holiness and closeness with God, that is why saints, angels and Jesus often have an ‘halo’.
No they did not actully have a literal halo. It’s just an ‘artistic represantation’ of holiness.
Just like the devil is depicted with animal-like monstrous features in art. The ‘ugliness’ is meant to represent the ‘ugliness of sin and evil’… the devil itself has no corporeal form, of course.
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roselily
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- I know that some people, yes, have seen one literal halo; but I do not want say more about that.
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inocente
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If they emit more heat than normal then they’ll show up even better on night vision goggles, so would not make good cat burglars or navy seals, although they’d make a welcome heat source during power outages in winter.
However, there is another explanation for halos in tomography: The computed tomographic (CT) halo sign, also known as the halo sign, refers to a zone of ground-glass attenuation surrounding a pulmonary nodule or mass on CT images (1) (Figure). - radiology.rsna.org/content/230/1/109.full
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