Alchemical Symbolism in the VMS

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@Paris: Yes, the Illustrations in the  "Musaeum Hermeticum" and "Dyas Chymica Tripartita" are identical and both published 1625. -The last one is easier for me to read.   - Your linked picture gallery is very ....... extensive, but I actually meant the entire composition in the example.

@Searcher: This is indeed an interesting point.

For the "Apollo version", here are both sources:

Prof. Hartmut Böhme, from an exhibition catalog for the "MEDIALE HAMBURG", ( 1993, Alchemical imagery of the elements, pp. 84–97 ):
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The seven classical metals gathered in the earth cave to the choir - gathered around the lyre-playing Apollo - are correspondents of the planets.
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Rosicrucian Digest, Hermetism, Volume 89, Number 1, 2011, Page 55 ( no source in Article )
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The engraving  also  shows  one  Apollo  who  plays his  lyre  in  the  symbolic  underworld. He plays  to  the  six  Muses  themselves  symbolic of the six alchemical metals and their celestial counterparts.
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