Starshadw at aol.com writes: > Be wary, though, of making generalizations. Angels were named BEFORE the > Fall, so some of the Fallen do have the -iel suffix: > > <Clipped names> > > And, many of the archangels (the "heavy hitters" not the order of the > archangels) don't have the -iel suffix: Methinks the lady mischecks her information. It is not '-iel' that one should pay attention to, but '-el' -- as in the first part of 'Elohim', one of the (many) names for the Hebrew god. The suffix '-el' roughly means 'god' -- Ariel, 'Lion of God', or Michael, 'He who is like God'. I expect that, if you hit the Hebrew name stuff, you'll find fine translations for all of those... I wonder, though -- if Steve had known the meaning of 'Ariel', would he have made said character in TRiH (still one of my top 5 of all time) a lion, or kept him as he was? Felix Eisen aka Scott Crain