Bat Chicken
This is the third lion to appear in the 8’s, only he is a skin only, draped on the head and shoulders of a child bearing the 8 pointed star of Venus and Ishtar and alternately the octagram of creation in the Gnostic tradition. It is also an magical symbol used for protection and invocation in the Norse tradition. Is the child Christ?
I get the sense of the lamb in lion’s clothing. The child protects themselves with the skin of the lion. That reminded me of a Canadian book, by Michael Ondaatje with the title “In the Skin of a Lion”. Apparently Ondaatje named his book from a line in the “Epic of Gilgamesh”, from Tablet 8 of the epic. No coincidence, I am sure!
Gilgamesh cast off his royal robes and replaces them with the skins of a lion and other wild animals and wanders into the night begging the Moon god for a vision after the death of his friend - a more wild man. He leaves behind civilization on as much an inner journey as outer one. He must leave one thing behind to achieve another and his grief is his path to renewal. To see things with the eyes of a child? It is the precursor for a symbolic rebirth – a necessary change.
Thoughts?
I get the sense of the lamb in lion’s clothing. The child protects themselves with the skin of the lion. That reminded me of a Canadian book, by Michael Ondaatje with the title “In the Skin of a Lion”. Apparently Ondaatje named his book from a line in the “Epic of Gilgamesh”, from Tablet 8 of the epic. No coincidence, I am sure!
Gilgamesh cast off his royal robes and replaces them with the skins of a lion and other wild animals and wanders into the night begging the Moon god for a vision after the death of his friend - a more wild man. He leaves behind civilization on as much an inner journey as outer one. He must leave one thing behind to achieve another and his grief is his path to renewal. To see things with the eyes of a child? It is the precursor for a symbolic rebirth – a necessary change.
Thoughts?