page for religious subjects, mostly purely aesthetic. consider this a st michael shrine (i like him normally...)

KOLYA APOLOGY VIDEO SCRIPT

i'm impatient so ill format this page later.

i consider myself agnostic but as a good homosexual i really like religious images. So when the oportunity came not so long ago i bought a rosary for Saint Michael - it might be one of my favorite posessions, the cross looks like a sword and the medal has an inscription on the back ("quis ut Deus") and on the front a picture of archangel Michael pointing his flaming sword at a chained demon, one foot over it's chest. It came with a little pouch and everything and i carry it everywhere. Its really big and i often wear it on my neck, if not for fear of it catching around something and breaking.

And since im carrying it everywhere, i thought why not read some more about the archangel himself? which so far has only lead me down the rabbit hole of peculiar religious practices and church hierarchy. Also the paintings - I really like the Trifacial Trinity representation of God.

ANyways, i'm operating on basic good practices of respect here but i really dont think i classify as a believer. Im much more interested in the story of the bible as literature and the church as actual human history than anything, so

tl;dr sending my preventive apology to u all dont sue me. xoxo

SO FAR...

Michael himself has become a sort of favorite, i dont see a lot of representations of him (mostly only Gabriel) and i think he also deserves some attention. I like orthodox representations of him the best, and thats how i always draw him (the scarves are awesome) and Jesus (oval looking hair thing looks cool)

No luck at all in reproducing the orthodox painting style. I suck ass at painting anything. My biggest inspiration though is Victor Vasnetsov, his paintings fuck verily

anyways ive also read about how to pray the rosary. One prayer for each bead, and apparently the rosary of St Michael has a different bead count than the usual rosary for...Virgin Mary, i can only assume.
The funny thing is that... my rosary has the normal Virgin Mary amount of beads...

i just have to be very good at counting ig

Theres of course a number of (shorter) prayers dedicated to Michael, turns out people really like him. I thought there wouldnt be many since chirstianity seem really set on only worshipping one god but i guess it doesnt make a difference if youre worshipping one of His workers? idk