Haniel, Kafziel, Azriel, and Aniel

In Babylon, the prophet Ezekiel saw in a vision four beasts or angels, ‘And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings' and ‘As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle. ' They went where the spirit carried them, ‘every one straight forward', or as the first Spanish Bible (1569) has it, cada uno caminaua enderecho de su rostro (‘each one went in the direction of his face') which of course is so unimaginable as to be uncanny. Four wheels or rings, ‘so high that they were dreadful' went with the angels and ‘were full of eyes round about them.'

An echo from Ezekiel may have been in the mind of St John the Divine when he spoke of animals in the fourth chapter of Revelation: