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This sounds close to the image of the ladder in this wonderful icon from
Sinai.
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/icons_sinai/images/heavenly_ladder.jpg
The angles and the saved are watching the demons snatch down the
undeserving. I am not sure about the theology represented here but I
have always found the demons rather charming. A contemporary saints'
life refers to "demons in the form of rock wasps."
DW
Catherine Gunn wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Dear friends
>
> In a late 12^th century English dialogue I’m reading [Vices and
> Virtues] there’s a reference to cursed spirits (werewede gostes)
> waiting for souls above the welkin (wolkne) after death – any souls
> that still have their sins upon them will be taken into pain to pay
> the penalty for them – Quia nullum malum inpunitum.
>
> If anyone has come across a similar reference to this particular view
> of the cosmology – demons hanging around in the clouds – please let me
> know,
>
> thanks, Cate
>
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