Ophan

Ophan
August 2010
Wacom Intuos 9x12, Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0

As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces. This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like chrysolite, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel. As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not turn about as the creatures went. Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around. - Ezekiel 1:15-18

This crazy-ass thing is some sort of wheel-like tool used by the angels in heaven, according to some pretty obscure texts.

The above-mentioned "chrysolite" appears to be a green gemstone, so I used that as the design inlays that could be interpreted as the device being covered in eyes. The designs themselves are a miniature replication of the entire creature, which leaves me to feel like these things are celestial shield generators, or data banks.