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Vedics invaded to the south from what is now Russia. They had a polytheistic nature oriented religion that featured a fire ritual. In a fire ritual, hundreds of horses would be sacrificed. The Vedic priests got the idea of doing the sacrifice within their minds in sort of a meditative exercise.
One priest, by the name of Zoroastor had a revelation while in one of these rituals of the mind. He realized their was only one God, not many. He tried to bring this revelation to his people and was run out of town, so to speak. He found another group of people in the middle east to believe him and started a new religion where only one God was recognized.
Something had to be done about the other God's, so they essentially became angels. Eventually this group invaded Israel. So, Zoroastrianism is a precursor to Christianity and the concept of angels in Christian doctrine can be traced back to this one Vedic priest.
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