Framework Et Pinnacle

The Song of the Romanesque syrenita
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sirens No other representation has been achieved so far, to reach the attraction we feel for carved inside the Romanesque church of San Pere de Galligans (Girona).
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normally accustomed to perceive in the world of imaging a variety of symbolic representations that often correspond to the same intention, but all of them, no insist and persist so as to instruct the man in the secret of their complete regeneration.
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unify in one essence the two opposing natures of which we are made is vital to achieve, and the mermaid Galligans inform us strongly.
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This admiration we experience after the perception of its message, is what motivates us to continue this study based on a fascinating and exclusive representation:
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literal description of that figure, which was set out in "Metamorphosis of a Concept ' - we want to summarize here:
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The siren solemn attitude is held high on her fish's tail in both hands holding a pair of fish to maintain a balanced position arms reminiscent of the familiar iconography of "praying." His head touches a raised platform with stars carved to simulate his crown.
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After the literal description of the image we suspect that there is an allegorical reading of the message with a series of perceptions related to the metaphor that are easily understandable: with fish-tail characteristic attribute of the inhabitants of the world below-the siren starts from the base of the spire rising vertically to join their head above ground, the blue field and stars.
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Undoubtedly, the composition of the character you send your work as a liaison between the groundwater level or lower and the upper or heavenly, the channel that connects the two worlds, similar to the role of the mystic ladder or Jacob linking the underworld with the superior, or heaven and earth.
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This concept also refers us to the figure of the Virgin Mary, "considered as the conduit between God and men, according to the relationship that some Fathers applied the symbolism of the ladder and the Blessed Virgin.
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"This (the Virgin) is the ladder of Jacob, who has twelve steps, including los dos lados.
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El lado derecho es el desprecio de sí mismo por el amor a Dios, el lado izquierdo es el desprecio del mundo por amor al Reino.
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Por estos peldaños suben los ángeles y son elevados los hombres..." (San Bernardo- Sermo ad Beatam Virginem 4).
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Es a través de esta lectura moral o teológica que podemos acceder a otro escalón diferente del símbolo cuyo mensaje abarca una gran magnitud. Es una enseñanza que trasciende creencias y culturas porque va arraigado en lo más profundo del ser humano, algo que se lleva implícito por nature and can only be understood under a tight mentality of the symbol, in particular alchemical vision. .

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( Fulcanelli. Dwellings of the Philosophers "Allegory of Alchemy: -
A seated female figure whose feet rest on the base, with his head touches the celestial sphere, acts as a conduit between the lower plane and the plane higher in both hands holding the book of knowledge and expertise rod ) ****

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siren Galligans upright as a symbol link by which you can ascend from our state animal (below) to the divine understanding (above), we note that body is composed of a dual nature, two substances in a separate but together, like two sides of a coin or as the personification of atanor alchemy.
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The two fish or lions, "in each case", symbolizing the two properties of our matter, sulfur and mercury. It is also "solve et coagula" alchemical necessary to achieve the union of the two principles of the Work. In this process ensures atanor maintained within and steadily, the fire of transformation, which will heat up the fusion of two natures in one of its own.
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The waist is where the two are qualities of being mixed together, indicating the sacred place where lies the ability to generate form. It is there where it develops this pure body will possess a quality that will be very perfect.

. "Sister Sister released, and the child born of mysterious single mother" (MR.IV, 96 ')

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Moreover and following the mythical personification of the siren, as we indicated in the previous article that the appearance of a double tail was progressive union came after the end of its tail to fish represented on both sides of the siren.
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The result after the resulting image was the predominance of a negative message that even a superficial meaning, became highly popular.
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We prefer to dismiss the latter, as we intend to approach the primitive symbols, with which, thanks to some performances that have stood up Nowadays, we can appeal to the clarity of mind that some artists of yesteryears deployed.
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A very clear example of this change in what we forked tail in the Gothic-Mudejar coffered Santa Maria de Lliria.

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http://www.galeon.com/lasanglliria/sang0005.htm

. In the first painting be seen exactly how a woman with a crown of three plumes holds two large fish that are symmetrically addressed. The perception of the composition, although naive, conveys majesty.
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As for the second image, the heads of the two fish have been completely merged the two tails suggesting a female figure and has no crown, and may not enjoy as active a positive value.

Photo: Julianna .. http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/YYBWZElelo6IQrR7yDaPxg
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This belongs to another size Budapest National Museum, the symbol comes back highly positive. The division of the two fish in their union with the female torso is especially marked visible leaving the central part of the body where is displayed in the form of steps, referring to the channel that connects the world and the hidden or visible lower or higher.
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lobed crown also holding the horn pointed at the celestial sphere is analogous to the tiara of fish in the Marian enkolpión tiara and star of the mermaid temple Galligans.

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It is precisely in this same temple Galligans-this time in his cloister, which again we find another horn that fills us with awe, both for the beauty of its composition and the subtle message alchemical includes:

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After the first impression does not seem to be no doubt that this is of a regular two-tailed mermaid, but if you look a little better, we note that in reality the oval lines that adorn the beginning of the tails, are the eyes of the two fish together in the mouth marks the meeting point where cylindrical torso emerges.

. is the atanor which gave birth to the incomprehensible mystery that will give way to the birth of light.

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Lambsprinck also as a good philosopher in the hermetic art, tells us in his "little treatise on the Philosopher's Stone: " ... philosophers commonly say that two fish in our sea, the two, indeed, without flesh and bones are boiled in water that is their own. Then leave them the great Ocean (or great work, ie, the first embryo of our stone will be perfect sulfur) that no man can describe. Here is what the philosophers understand why: There are two fish, but the two are but one, two, however, and yet one. " .

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and is always two-tailed siren indicating that perfect symmetry, with the same items from one to the other side, suggesting balance, the straight path, the middle path.

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The idea of \u200b\u200b"middle way" between the two variables natures often found in old time looks more schematic.

An example more familiar to us of this intention, we have it in the catacombs of the Christians, whose outline exchanged mermaid figure erected by an anchor.
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Others see the relationship in some Bible verses that refer to this object as an allegory of hope:
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"... the asiéndonos we seek refuge to the hope both sure and solid anchor of our soul ... "(Hebrews 6, 18-19).

www.iespana.es / jesusagrario / Catacombs
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Today anchor is a sign that still persists, because its image is still used in heraldry and church areas, but unfortunately valued under a small aspect of its true meaning:
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similarity is easily recognizable anchor synthetic siren bifida .

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But viewed as the hope of a good Christian on arrival at a good "port" is not only that.
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Actually, the anchor is also associated with the same soul and strength of the symbol is its strength. Your image shows that the anchor is firm and unalterable, as it should be kept soul to the fluctuation of the two tracks (fish).
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Toledo. Church of San Cipriano

However, we are always surprised to find nautical symbol on the facade of a church, and more in a city without a port or Tues
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And is that the anchor, either as a sign of hope or conceived as resonance of the human soul, goes even further, as anchor and Virgin share the same meaning and representations of many churches and demonstrated its iconology .

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schematic appears in the doorway of San Millán de Almendres (Burgos) the concept of anchor-virgin.
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The central character, with hints halo over his head, controls and stabilizes the two invisible forces symbolized by two long fish that emerge from the abyss to be balanced with the central trunk, which fixed, after the event contains.

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Another example with a beautiful composition is found in the tympanum of the Sanctuary of the Virgen del Mar (Almería). Two dolphins, mercury double witness arise between the waves of the sea, inhiesta, a black Madonna carrying a child.
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Its symbolism takes us to the manifestation of the occult, the hermaphrodite Venus enclosing the under fermentation, the moist substance, universal spirit of the world. The Alma Mundi.

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Although most current and possibly renewed, the Virgen de la Esperanza en Blanes (Barcelona) still keeps the main attributes that identify it as a receptacle of hermetic knowledge: on his head the star sign par excellence, the twelve stars or zodiacal belt and underfoot the anchor has been placed to argue the contact and control of the Virgin on the deep waters and groundwater, the source and root of all life.
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balanced position of his arms reminds us of the images above, the Holy Mother-wide event.
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And this is how the anchor in its covert meaning is linked to the Blessed Virgin, and in particular in their expression of Virgen de la Esperanza, or better understood: the "good hope."
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A Virgin is the legitimate heir of the woman in Rev.12 Sun, with the moon under her feet and crowned with twelve stars evokes the principle of connection between the world of the unseen and the visible. .

Women in the anguish of giving birth to stars on the scene more mysterious and commentary of Revelation, the secret stronger than reason can not discover.
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paritura is the Virgo. The fertile female principle in itself, an unequivocal sign of the most authentic source of life, the Cosmic Mother from which life springs from his own creative impulse.
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is innate and eternal force that evolves with a clear understanding and acceptance of change: the Alma Mundi archaic
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Solve and Coagula
Both are operations that are "hand" of that siren, the mixed body of fish and virgin acts of connection between the two natures. Solve and Coagula is not essentially the same operation. A continuous flow of eternal cycle between the two natures, the subtle and material. Therefore, these two operations are represented equally, with the same figure in equilibrium at both ends of the arms of the symbolic scale.
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And it is the combination of these concepts, the center point between the natures (Fixed & Volatile) and between operations (Solve and Coagula), which forged the magical uniqueness of the generation of Being, the concept generation that we call life, shape or universe. Perhaps, in the center of atanor, Salt is brewing, resulting from the merger of the two dual natures eternal.
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And where you said so far has been summed up with great detail in this outstanding figure is found in the Communal Palace Pola (Croatia).

. Photo: Dr. J. Oliver-Bonjoch http://oliver-bonjoch.blogspot.com/

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We define it as the "missing link" and it see as representations converge characteristics shown above:
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on its tail erect a column based aqueous perfect ending in the crown of three spades that encircles his head. As fish are subjected testify fully on the fins and tails of their bodies, which, by binding to the Mermaid converge at the point where the show excels pregnant bulge.
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This very explicit image condenses the entire schedule of the above, and as a visual target's tasks, the siren as a paradigm of mixed body is shown as a symbol of that scale that links the area with the upper abyssal while it is revealed as the only container to cover and contain the two antagonistic forces, whose unification precipitated the state of "good hope" the embryo of the Child Shining or Philosopher's Stone by which we know the science of physical regeneration and complete man. Behold, the siren song, able to initiate in the mysteries of who is able to listen and not succumb!
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** The siren song: http://foros.hispavista.com/foro-blogs-del-romanico--desiderata-/42664/939473/m/el-canto-de- the-siren /

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Inside A Ship Diagram

concept Fuentidueña lovers (I)

Hugs and kisses, bells a. .. "It."
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In the eaves outside the south aisle of the church of San Miguel de Segovia Fuentidueña, is perhaps the most photographed and corbels antonomásico erotic English Romanesque. In it, a couple makes intercourse in an expression that is away from the sinful theme to display with a meaning almost exhilarating. Unaware

a tangle of characters and faces monstrous, these fans seem to transcend the message man-evil duality where attitudes emphasize their moral weakness, to focus on a particular meaning further catechetical on holiday fertility rite.

Covered by iconoclastic frame the context in which it is situated, neighboring stands a head corbels bare-chested men and noble appearance of maturity, which is adorned with a cap of deer antlers. At the other extreme, another bust, dressed in a woman, look so serene and condescending.

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Will they who are halfway to participate in the most profane and sacred act at once?

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In the southwest coast of England in the county of Dorset, lies the treasure Romanesque church of St. Nicholas Studland.

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originally built by Saxon artists, its current status is the work of Norman intervention made in the twelfth century, whose mark of conquest was limited to strengthening the structure with the tower buttresses to insert some blocks of masonry and reinforce the top, which decorated with corbels animalistic and some distorted and monstrous human heads, denoting a propaganda purpose of rewriting history to cast himself in the minority invasive.

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Well, under the eaves of the overhang of the Church of St. Nicholas of Studlar, and also in the outer wall of the south aisle, a pair of lovers embrace in the middle of intercourse outside the big gasps of corbels face neighbor two-faced.

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http://www.colinfparsons.btinternet.co.uk/twinp/colhome/PurbSaxon/saxon.htm

Even without ignoring the different treatment that the sculptor Norman gives way to hold on, we will not go unnoticed and lacking exhilarating treatment of exhibitionism that relates to this position and thematic British corbels with San Miguel Segovia Fuentidueña like no other for those who can be found in the entire cast of the vast and rich repertoire erotic English Romanesque, the other must be understood as mere differences artist's inspiration to accommodate the representation of the plateau as cucullus sagus or rural clothing appropriate to the time and place of execution.

But what is certain is that the study of two cantilevers, can express their belief in the existence of a translation of iconographic models from British shores to our Castilian Romanesque.

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2.0 To 2.0a Age Of Empires

God is maimed? She dances alone

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To ancient man, the earth was a flat disc surrounded by ocean, which had the Heaven above and hell below until the sixth century BC, the Presocratics modified this concept by introducing the hypothesis of its flotation in a space free, dynamic and balanced by two metaphysical forces, such as dual power, would act as a counterweight.
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goodness that since the thought of these philosophers, is attributed to the right, surely must be connected to the right hand in all natural events: the appearance of birth and death Sun and the analogy between this-right-light-life and West-left-dark-death.
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This theory of the clash of opposites, would soon become postulate of cosmic justice as a symbol of harmony tense, ultimately all the profound unity of the universe. A good representative of that image is sculpted on the outside of the central apse in Santiago Agüero, the contrast of opposites in perfect harmony, the reign of cosmic justice.
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Once in Rome, derectus, contained a semantic feature positive and spatial significance "right", dexter-to would retain the same meaning evaluative in meaning to the supportive and enabling, as opposed to whilenot or sinextra , which form part of speeches always negative, vicious, adverse or ominous, adjective and taboo word that despite being replaced by the euphemistic term semantically Celtic 'left (Kerr) "as a designation sinextra space, it would still tinged with their own negative traits to the point that all previous civilizations in the Mediterranean our era, it meant the direction of death.
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Christian Religion strongly to the establishment and dissemination of the connotation of right and left. In the biblical texts often appear opposition between different elements: the good and evil, heaven and hell, light and dark, with many passages that testify to the strength and power or honor and goodness associated with the position right, as opposed to evil and selfishness, related to the left (Genesis, 8, Exodus, 29; Leviticus 7, San Mateo, 25).

The issue before us today, the Domini Dextera can be a good example of how the lexicon is often true carrier and transmitter of the culture of the community that uses . Thus, in the Romanesque hand characterize the divine manifestation of God's voice, the power that creates all that exists, which guide and saves, heals, the blessing, which appeals as a witness or alliance contract and also to punish and crush the enemy, as you use the right or left.

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... And the Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering.

The Domini Dextera scene with Abel is one of the most common configurations to represent conformity, support and satisfaction of God. A sure sign that God is right.

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A curious and unique representation of the Domini Dextera appears in the cloister of San Pedro el Viejo in Huesca. In this configuration is shown holding the wrist of Christ in Majesty in the almond. Paradoxically, as if it were a chain, is the Son sinistra which is ringed by the right hand of the Father, in clear reference to his ascension into heaven.

Adam is raised and also grabbed by his left wrist in the mural of Veracruz Maderuelo, but for this, the Creator uses its sinistra, instead of the right hand used to lift up Christ in the previous representation, which can give us much to think about the different conceptual levels attributed to the action performed.

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. Dextera God The emerging under crismón of Santa Maria de Iratxe. Here crismón dexterity and are equivalent, beginning and end, light and darkness are regarded as sacred by the hand of God. It is the largest emananción of metaphysics, inexorably linking the statement of the principle uncreated. It is God who holds the world so that, if left to do only for a moment, it would immediately disappear. It symbolizes the continuous creation, matter sustained by the Spirit. His power transcends everything.

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Another image is unprecedented for the murals of the synagogue of Dura-Europos (Syria). This sequence novel and peculiar action depicted on both hands of God. With right-recurring three times, "aids and protects, while with his left draws a one-time-cause death and destruction.

"The Lord will dry up the sea of \u200b\u200bEgypt, will raise his hand against the Euphrates. And yet his anger is not appeased, his hand still threatening" (Isaiah, 9 , 11,16.20)


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The notions of the symbolic nature of the terms "right" "left" have been subjected to such strong evaluative process, which have come to constitute a universal cultural.
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But ... Does God have hands?. And if it does, for medieval people the impression that he had "left hand" .


For more pictures on the theme: http://foros.hispavista.com/foro-blogs-del-romanico--desiderata-/42664/935342/m/ symbolism:-the-hand-(Dextera-and-sinextra-domini) /

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