Angels And Planets

World Without Stars.

When ya-Kela looks at the night sky:

"...the last coals of sunset went out, and the sky was empty of everything save God, the angels, and three planets..." (I, p. 6)

I said in God Rising that I did not know what the angels were. I still don't. When Felipe Argens looks at the sky on that same night, he sees only the galaxy ("God") and:

"...three glitters which we now knew were planets." (VII, p. 44)

Can natives see something that human beings cannot? Or are the "angels" those stars that can be discerned as individual points at the ends of the spiral arms? I think that it is more likely that they are divine attendants that are imagined or believed in although not seen. But I remain unsure as to what Poul Anderson was alluding to.