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Angel Creation, Namely Light: A New Translation

I was trying to do an analysis of this song, or at least parts of it, and I realized I would need to translate it myself to do that effectively.

Light of all creation. Mosaic light. The child of dawn, the angel Lucifer. Light of revelation. Michaelic light. The child of darkness, androgynous. Light of the flame. Heavenly light. The heavenly hierarchia*. Illusory light. Eternal light. A mechanism of fantasy. A birth from a whim.

Nyx (moonless night). Erebos (twilight*). Uranus (starry sky). Thanatos (death).

Brightly shining, spherical and androgynous. Born in every miracle***, androgynous. The pleasure principle. The nirvana principle****.

Without themselves living, Life's images move. In the cerebral universe, Life's forms float*****. Radiance, dokesis******. Awaiting eternity! In other words, return to an imperfect origin.

Both sexes, both poles: The pair of me. Up and down, left and right: The pair of me. Front and back, heaven and earth: The pair of me. Angel and devil: The pair of me.

Inside, I'm hollow. Inside, I'm hollow.

Translation notes:

*When I looked up "Hierarchia" in Japanese characters, I found out--and my source is kotobank--that the first usage of the word Hierarchia is from De Coelesti Hierarchia (The Celestial Hierarchy) by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. However, Seazer uses a different word for heaven than is used in the text's Japanese title, which is why I didn't use "Celestial" in my translation, nor did I capitalize.

**Literally, the word in parentheses means semidarkness like you would see at twilight (I just thought "twilight" sounded more poetic than "semidarkness"). However, if you add just one more character, it becomes a word for the land of the dead. Actually, even without that additional character, that is an additional meaning that the word can have.

***This is the phrase I am least sure about in the entire song. Out of all the different ways this line has been translated, I am not convinced there is one "right" version. At least, not based on the actual words on the page--perhaps someday someone will uncover a resource that will be the key to deciphering that line, but as it stands, it's ambiguous whether it should be in, into, for, by, as... it's just not clear.

****This entire stanza is a reference to Freud's essay Beyond the Pleasure Principle. Freud claimed that there were two conflicting drives in human nature, the pleasure principle, which encompasses the striving for life, its extension, and its propagation, and the nirvana principle, which encompasses the striving towards death. He argued this by claiming that all organisms are driven to recreate prior states of being, and nonexistence was the earliest state of being of all. He also brought up a myth Plato attributed to Aristophanes, saying that it fit his theory in that it claimed that sexual drives are an attempt at recreating a prior state of oneness with one's partner, and so he speculated that the myth might somehow reflect the reality of how sexual reproduction evolved in the ancestors of all plants and animals. In the myth in question, primordial humans were spherical and some were androgynous, but all ended up being broken into pairs, which could be male/male, male/female (these were the originally androgynous pairs), or female/female. It explains love and sex as attempts to reunite with our literal other halves.

*****The first, second, and fourth lines of this stanza are direct quotes from Goethe's Faust. Although the Japanese translation doesn't have action verbs, I included them because the original German does. I checked with a native German speaker to make sure my translation of these lines wasn't too off from the original.

******仮現 is not a word on its own, but it is the beginning of the word 仮現説 which is the Japanese word for a "heretical" Christian doctrine, docetism: the belief that the body of Christ that died on the cross was not his real human body, but either an illusion, or a body of celestial substance only, and therefore his human self did not really suffer and die on the cross, but only appeared to.

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And what if I said Jet and Haru were both trans men?? What you gonna do???

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Please reblog, for more votes!

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It’s really cute that you think you’re gonna defeat me with the power of friendship or whatever but again I am The Devil from The Bible

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"Hi y'all, it's Chronomaster42, the only Youtuber with the ability to travel through, and control, time and space, here with another taste test. I'm here in 1976, and I'm gonna get some fries from Mickey D's before they changed the recipe, and then I'm gonna take 'em back to 2022, and get fries from the same McDonald's, so I can compare. Now, I've got my Nixon, uh, Ford? Carter? Era fries right here, so now I'm gonna"

*everything appears stretched and distant, and then the camera flies through space, through the sun, over millions of different Earths, past the faces of individual people in a thousand different timelines, splintered day by day, the long-dead alive once more, their varied futures lying before them. They appear to be screaming*

"annnnnd here we are, gettin' the new fries, today. I have to say, I like the old fries a bit better, bit more crisp, but Mickey D's fries are still Mickey D's fries, y'know? Anyway, I know some of you guys were freaked out at all the screaming time faces last video, but like, I'm used to 'em, and they aren't even audible to me? But y'know what is audible? That's right - Audible, use code -"

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Dinner

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take back what is yours

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Testing out Affinity as an alternative to Adobe Illustrator! RGU characters are good for vector art because their designs are so simple :3

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This is what the fire siblings are like to me. This is just what they are 😔

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found this cool branch in the woods. i want to mount it but i need to make sure it's clean before i nail it anywhere.

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17.06.2025 ❤️ today's anthy!

kozuanthy ref & inspo: bluervvv@insta & axlejozeph@insta for 2nd anthy ... couldnt decide how to color anything haha

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"you will look for themes and motifs in media that isn't worth the effort" i will look for themes and motifs in the dirt. on the ground.

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Your art is so beautiful! I'm begging you for more ty lee art 🧎

Here’s Ty Lee in a dress I wore once when I was 8 lol

Also thank you so much! 💓

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