We just learned about Biblical Canon.
Another part of early Christianity is the Tetramorph.
This word comes from the Greek words "tetra" which means four, and "morph" which means shape.
When people started to put together the writings of the apostles, there were the writings we call the Gospel, that told about Jesus life.
The four books of the Gospel we know are Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
In the Old Testament in the book of Ezekiel, he writes about a vision God gave him showing some creatures that had 4 different faces.
The face of a human, a lion, an ox and an eagle.
Some people believe that those four faces are for the four gospels, and so sometimes in art the four writers of the gospel are shown either sitting next to those animals, or sometimes even with animal heads on human bodies.
Matthew is shown as the human, Mark as the lion, Luke as the Ox, and John as the Eagle.
This way of showing the four writers of the gospel was called the Tetramorph, and it also became a way to talk about the four gospels.
(from: wikipedia - tetramorph)
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