The World of Stargate

Ancient and Angels

Don't the Ancients seem like the angels of the Bible? Since the Goa'uld are supposed to have taken on or inspired the gods of Egyptian and other mythologies, it seems the Ancients are being given the responsibility for inspiring Biblical accounts of angels, especially the human-form angels (such as those who visited Abraham and Lot just before Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed).

If that is the implied connection, is Oma Desala supposed to be connected to the Virgin Mary? Stargate-SG1 introduced a Goa'uld hiding out on Earth, Setesh or Seth, who posed as a leader of religious cults throughout history. Nonetheless, he bore a curious resemblance to traditional depictions of Jesus. The shows have carefully stepped around the beliefs and teachings of modern faiths (Buddhists alone have been specifically connected to Oma's sacred refuge on Keb). Only ancient mythologies have been deemed fair play. But a certain double entendre seems to have been devised.

Those Ancients who have returned to corporeal form seem very much like sympathetic fallen angels. And while the Goa'uld are often described as "demons" by Teal'c and other rebellious people from Goa'uld-controlled societies, the Wraith seem a bit more like the traditional followers of the Biblical Lucifer/Satan.

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