I like to think the term arch-angels tells about some kind of gentle deities of those portals which rise gracefully skyward both in peopled cloisters and in ruinous abbeys—enabling passage, flight. A family, maybe, and maybe amiably dysfunctional; or a guild.
And an arch-villain, then, is one who prevents passage, blocks the openings, prohibits rise. (And don't we all know at least one of those?)
image: Christie B. Cochrell, Mallorca Arches, Miramar Monastery
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