23-04-2026, 11:13 AM
(This post was last modified: 23-04-2026, 11:16 AM by Stefan Wirtz_2.)
(22-04-2026, 08:59 AM)Antonio García Jiménez wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Since antiquity the sun has been represented with masculine characteristics and the moon with feminine ones,[..]
Invalid.
Celtic, Germanic/Scandinavian, Baltic, Finn and Northern Slavics attributed „female“ to the sun in ancient, pre-christian and off-Latin times, and by at least some languages, even today.
Egyptian, Greek-Latin, Romance, Hungarian and South Slavics promoted the idea of a „male“ sun.
You might say „Since antiquity the sun has been represented with masculine characteristics and the moon with feminine ones in most cultures around the mediterranean sea“,
but you cannot generalize that claim even for whole Europe — not to speak about the rest of this world.
About this thing „there is a moon image covering the sun!“ in VMS picture, I leave it to all spectators to judge this „interpretation“…
Your theory is on a monorail since you believed Panofsky (oh yes, the great expert for Italian, who had nothing better to say about VMS than: „it must be spanish, Alfonso X!“).

