One thing I enjoy doing when investigating religions is keeping an eye open for common threads between them. I find this helps me to understand how certain aspects of religions likely got started and perhaps even shines a light on possible truths.Anytime you see a motif occurring in an older religion or mythology it’s a fairly safe bet that the newer religions likely copied it either from that one or a common older source. One prime example I’ve highlighted before in one of my earliest articles was the story of the Garden of Eden.But I recently ran across another commonality between Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, and Zoroastrianism. Given how much older both Hinduism and Zoroastrianism are than Christianity, this piqued my interest.In Christianity (and Judaism), we have seven Archangels traditionally recognized. Three who are recognized by the majority of Christianity: Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. Then four others who are recognized by some of Christianity as well as Judaism: Uriel, Raguel, Sariel, and Jeremiel. These are mentioned in the Apocrypha, and in the case of Sariel in the book of Enoch. All non-canonical books that some Christians don’t recognize as being divinely inspired.All of these angels have various traits attributed to them. Their powers…