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the central part (the electro was both natural and artificial alloy consisting of<br />
gold and silver) or perhaps it represented electromagnetic phenomena, since<br />
the electrical properties of the a<strong>mb</strong>er (that Greeks defined as électron) were<br />
already well known in ancient times.<br />
Continuing with the analysis of Ezekiel's description:<br />
and from its centre appeared a form of four living creatures<br />
And the appearance of the “four living creatures” was so characterized as<br />
follows:(Ezekiel, verses 1.5-17, which we will quote without the Hebrew text<br />
to make the reading less demanding, but at any rate respecting the literalness<br />
and shape of the original text):<br />
«In appearance their form was that of an Adàm»;<br />
«Each of them had four faces and four wings»;<br />
«Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the soles of<br />
a calf's foot; and they sparkled like burnished bronze [luminescent]»;<br />
«Under their wings on their four sides they had the hands of an Adàm. [the<br />
term kanàf has several meanings: “wing, tip, edge]»;<br />
«All four of them had faces [front side] and wings [tips, edges]»;<br />
«their wings [tips] touched one another [“female to its sister”, says verse<br />
9]»;<br />
«they did not turn as they moved»;<br />
«each one proceeded in the direction of his face [front side]; [each one<br />
went straight ahead]»;<br />
«the four had the face of an Adàm, and the face of a lion on the right side,<br />
the face of an ox on the left side, and the face of an eagle»;<br />
«their faces and their wings were separated from up above”; Their wings<br />
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