Funny enough Pit himself is based on a Greek-era Putti (and apparently if you speak Japanese those words are almost identical), the benevolent servants of Aphrodite. Notably, Palutena herself is a greek→japanese→english mistranslation of "Pallas Athena". While Pit and Plautena, the happy flying human-shaped things are what people think of as "angel" and "god" today, that was absolutely NOT what "angel" and "God" meant in early antiquity Judea