messengers from the sky

Carlo Crivelli's "Annunciation with St Emidius" (1486) Wikipedia

It is interesting to note that in many languages 'sky' and 'heaven' are the same word; for example, caelum (Latin), Himmel (German), ciel (French), cielo (Spanish), and hemel (Dutch). 

"The modern English word 'heaven' is derived from the earlier (Middle English) heven (attested 1159); this in turn was developed from the previous Old English form heofon. By c. 1000, heofon was being used in reference to the Christianized 'place where God dwells,' but originally, it had signified 'sky, firmament.'"
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"[...] sky (n.) c.1200, 'a cloud,' from Old Norse sky 'cloud,' from Proto-Germanic skeujam 'cloud, cloud cover' (cognates: Old English sceo, Old Saxon scio "cloud, region of the clouds, sky;" Old High German scuwo, Old English scua, Old Norse skuggi 'shadow'; Gothic skuggwa 'mirror'), from PIE root (s)keu- 'to cover, conceal' (see hide (n.1)). Meaning 'upper regions of the air' is attested from c.1300; replaced native heofon in this sense (see heaven). In Middle English, the word can still mean both 'cloud' and 'heaven,' as still in the skies, originally 'the clouds.'"
— Online Etymology Dictionary
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"[...] The ángelos is the default Septuagint’s translation of the Biblical Hebrew term mal’ākh denoting simply ‘messenger’ without specifying its nature. In the Latin Vulgate however the meaning becomes bifurcated: when mal’ākh or ángelos is supposed to denote a human messenger, words like nuntius or legatus are applied. If the word refers to some supernatural being, the word angelus appears.
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“Across the spectrum of organized religions people who acknowledge the existence of God, tend to make allusions to a God associated with a ‘Heaven above.’ This God is popularly viewed as having made directives as forms of commandments various doctrines associated with organized religions that humanity is obey.
     ‘Hell’ is then often associated with these organized religions and is imputed to exist in some kind of "below Underworld". However, African Elder, Credo Mutwa, suggests that before the intrusion of Manipulative Extraterrestrials through organized religion, earthbound indigenous peoples had appreciated God, as not to be associated with a ‘Heaven above,’ and that has made commandments.
      Rather, indigenous people critically appreciated Earth's biosphere to be the living expression of God.
     That is why indigenous peoples from Canada, the United States, and other parts of the Americas, as well as in Africa, have tended to seek to live in balance with nature. African Elder Credo Mutwa and Gnostic accounts documented by John Lash suggest that ‘Hell’ may have actually descended to Earth ‘from above,’ in the sky.
     Indigenous peoples tend to view God and Nature to be one, and they view humanity as having a spiritual and social responsibility to respect planet Earth.”
— Peter Tremblay, bibliotecapleyades
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