Are angels protective of time and place in the way that saints are guardians of particular situations?
It’s both. Some are locations, some are purely utilitarian, some are just days–angel of the day Monday–that’s it. There are others like Gabriel who have much bigger powers. I used the names of stars and, in some cases, I just gave people star names or used variations on the word star. For example, there are two women that are primary, older characters from the past named Stella and Astrid. They are like two guiding stars and they are two wild women–I don’t know how else to describe them–involved with three different men in the 1920s and 30s and a lot of the characters find out they descended from these women. All of the hotels in the book were consciously named after stars: Canopus, Capella, Rigal, and Alnilam. Alnilam was an Arab astronomer. A lot of the stars were discovered and mapped out by the Arab astronomers and they put their name on them. Canopus sounds like it could be a hotel in Vegas. I took the 30 brightest stars and used most of them. Sirius, the dog in the book, is,
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