Ophanim - Ophanim in Popular Culture

Ophanim in Popular Culture

• The concept of the Ophanim, and the gospel song "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel" are likely sources of inspiration for the Grateful Dead song "Estimated Prophet", written by John Perry Barlow.
• "Ofanim" are one of the Choirs in the RPG In Nomine. They are depicted as giant flaming wheels and embody motion.
• The Ophanim appear throughout the Shin Megami Tensei video game series (under the name "Thrones") as powerful angels. They are among the highest ranks of the Divine clan, sometimes as the highest of all (the Seraphim appear as a separate class of angels).
• The image of the Ophanim is implied to represent the spacecraft of the Whisper People in the film Knowing.
• The Creature called the Scourge in Clive Barker's Weaveworld is described as a wheel with a hundred eyes and identifies itself as Uriel the flame of God.
• "Orphan"(オーファン Ōfan) is the final antagonist from Final Fantasy XIII, a wheel-shaped fal'Cie whose desired its own destruction to summon Maker back to their world.
• Enchants appear in "Bayonetta" as lower ranking angels that are wheels of fire.
• The Ophanim are the physical manifestation of the Sopia of the pillars in the RPG "Chaos Rings 2"