#i don't know i tried looking around online for the kind of sphinxy cherub my mom was describing but i didn't find too much | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

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fun fact: "cherub" likely didn't originally describe a little angel baby -- it comes from the hebrew word "keruv" which, in jewish mythology (according to my rabbi mom, anyway), is much more like a sphinx: an angel with the front half of a lion, the back half of a bull, the face of a human, and wings!

so here is my doodley little cherub creature... with a lamb in back instead of a bull! and with rosy cheeks and a halo too, to be like modern depictions of cherubim for fun. my mom just recently learned what a furry is and said if i were an animal i'd be a cherub (mainly because of my mane-like golden hair)... she might be right!

#dandy's doodles #it is so hard to draw a mane you have no idea!! augh!!!#anyway i love love love my sweet dragon but i'm being indecisive...!#and at least for a cherub i can justify it existing in our world. cuz i'm jewish and i can believe in angels if i so choose #i think angels wouldn't look like anything we can comprehend so they'd just approximate themselves with earthly parts for our mortal eyes #hence chimera sorts of things :) cool beasts #i don't know i tried looking around online for the kind of sphinxy cherub my mom was describing but i didn't find too much #a little bit on wikipedia i guess. nobody's quite sure what cherubim look like but this is what my mom thinks... and i like it!!!#oh and she says seraphim are winged serpents... so dragons! dragons!! dragons!!!

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