27-08-2021, 03:19 PM
Koen, I was interested in the history of the Zodiac signs and the relationship of the four-legged archers and the two-legged archers, particularly from the mythological perspective. I believe the archers were associated with the ancient Veneti in later Scythians who were known as the horse-riding people, known for their excellent art.
The bow and arrow was also associated with ancient god Apollo.
The Romans placed the Scythian archers in Switzerland, where I suppose they assimilated into Germans, just as the Scythians from Pannonia assimilated into the Slavs.
By the 15th century, the Scythians became a distant memory, however the question of the origin of people became very much a subject of debates and artistic depictions, to mention just the Italian depictions of Satyres. I believe the depiction of the two-legged archer in Heinrich of Laufenburg manuscript Regimen Sanitatis - 7493.pdf (wdl.org) shows clear association of Archer to Apollo (the Sun)- which is also the medieval sign for the Name of Jesus. In other words, the Archer is a assicuated with artists.
While you and Petersen were mainly focused on the artistic style, I wanted to understand why the signs were placed from heaven down to earth, and this is the explanation that I came with. As for the other signs, fish is associated with Jesus, so is own - the Lamb of God. The Capricorn in a legend from Trento is also alluding to Jesus (a mystical Jesus). The Taurus was the ancient divinity - probably because it was such a huge animal. In Slovenian, even the word for Taurus is BIK. The same word is used for BULL, and a similar Slovenia word - BUK means God and Buk. What we, Slovenians share with the people of Swabia is the ancient predecessors Taurisci (Noric people). When the true history was suppressed, the creative people had always found the way to leave some clues.
The bow and arrow was also associated with ancient god Apollo.
The Romans placed the Scythian archers in Switzerland, where I suppose they assimilated into Germans, just as the Scythians from Pannonia assimilated into the Slavs.
By the 15th century, the Scythians became a distant memory, however the question of the origin of people became very much a subject of debates and artistic depictions, to mention just the Italian depictions of Satyres. I believe the depiction of the two-legged archer in Heinrich of Laufenburg manuscript Regimen Sanitatis - 7493.pdf (wdl.org) shows clear association of Archer to Apollo (the Sun)- which is also the medieval sign for the Name of Jesus. In other words, the Archer is a assicuated with artists.
While you and Petersen were mainly focused on the artistic style, I wanted to understand why the signs were placed from heaven down to earth, and this is the explanation that I came with. As for the other signs, fish is associated with Jesus, so is own - the Lamb of God. The Capricorn in a legend from Trento is also alluding to Jesus (a mystical Jesus). The Taurus was the ancient divinity - probably because it was such a huge animal. In Slovenian, even the word for Taurus is BIK. The same word is used for BULL, and a similar Slovenia word - BUK means God and Buk. What we, Slovenians share with the people of Swabia is the ancient predecessors Taurisci (Noric people). When the true history was suppressed, the creative people had always found the way to leave some clues.