Rosanne
Hi Lance, I have been trying to find examples of Christ in the Zodiac- even right side up. I have found Christianized Zodiacs(planespheres),have the Cross of Calvary, but none before the 17th Century.
I have found artworks of Leda and the Swan.
I did find a book by a Andrew Collins, who says the same as you basically.
here is an extract.
Can you help?
~Rosanne
I have found artworks of Leda and the Swan.
I did find a book by a Andrew Collins, who says the same as you basically.
here is an extract.
I have found nothing in image in the 15th Century that would indicate the Hanged Man and Cygnus.Nor have I found associations of the Cross of Calvary and Cygnus in either word or image.In Christian tradition, Cygnus was seen as the Cross of Calvary as early as the sixth century, and arguably as far back as Roman times, where the crucifixion scene was associated more with the pagan god Orpheus, whom Jesus was portrayed as in a number of early Christian statues and murals found in Rome. In Classical tradition the swan of Cygnus was originally said to have been Orpheus, god of the underworld.
Cygnus was occasionally shown in Christian planispheres as Christ on the Cross, his wounds perhaps corresponding to its principal stars. Moreover, the dove as a Christian symbol of the Holy Spirit (Greek pnuema), derives from the Hebrew concept of the Spirit or Breath of God (ruach), and stems from the same cosmological root as the Yezidi concept of the anfar, the form of Khuda (God) as a bird that brought the universe into manifestation. In the first chapter of Genesis the Spirit of God (ruach) hovers over the primordial waters moments before God's Creation of the universe. The dove or pigeon was equated with Cygnus in Arabic tradition.
Can you help?
~Rosanne