02-08-2019, 11:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-08-2019, 11:01 PM by Monica Yokubinas.)
(02-08-2019, 08:23 PM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Adam and Eve (with long hair) and Lilith from a 14th-century Notre Dame sculpture. Lilith was a creature of the night (think moon and owls) and is said to have preyed upon pregnant women:
I don't know whether early depictions show her with a branch. She usually holds something like this, which doesn't look like a branch to me:
Some cast her as Adam's first lover but say she grew tired of him.
I'll try and explain the scalled covering above the nymph, if she is protector, it is protecting her, if she is Lilith it is holding her down.
quotes from the same book discussing the magic bowls. "...it refers to the magical armament of persons and things which power to resist the forces of evil... That is the magical equipment of a person or charm against evil. ... Paul... exhorted the Ephesians to 'put on the armor/panoply of God'...
'a great wall of bronze', is equally parabolic; bronze possessed atropaic use in magic." Picture of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., notice the semicircular pattern of the armor.
The nymph below this one has explanations from the Trotula "If a woman does not wish to conceive, let her carry against her nude body flesh of the womb of a goat which has never had offspring."
Strange times indeed


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