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Seraphim is the plural for Seraph. Are they the same demon?--Otherarrow 10:44, May 24, 2010 (UTC)

I'd have to see if the picture I have on Koneko's works is the same as the Strange Journey one and semi-the same as the Demkids one. Wedre these games ever released stateside? Great Mara 15:02, May 24, 2010 (UTC)

The meaning of the Hebrew letters on Seraph's fans[]

As I explained in my edit attempt, the letters are far from being "random" and they spell out the Latin word Sanctus (holy) three times, hence the "thrice holy", also referred to by Seraph's attack.

There is no actual Hebrew equivalent for the word "Sanctus". I'm a native Hebrew speaker and the version given in the edit notes (סאנקטוס) is based on the Modern Hebrew transcribing conventions, which do not take into account the linguistic relationships between the Latin and Hebrew alphabets.

The spelling סאנגתוס represents a 1:1 exchange of Latin letters with their historical Hebrew counterparts, hence the inverted left-to-right reading direction:

ס ו ת ג נ א ס S A N C T U S

Latin C originated in the Hebrew letter ג (Gimmel), and *not* ק Latin T originated in the Hebrew letter ת (Taw), and *not* ט

Please correct the Trivia section to add this information. If anything is still unclear please comment or message me and I'd love to clarify.

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