Ladies with Rings

[Davidsch]

Today, I've located another clear symbolic image and description of the ring.

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Symbolic ring on hand = wedding band

Didacus Valades, Scala Naturae,1579 

God holds in his left hand the earth and in his right a wedding band, his bond with the Church. From here, the Chain descends through all being.

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The great chain of being is a strict, religious hierarchical structure of all matter and life, believed to have been decreed by God. The chain starts from God and progresses downward to angels, demons (fallen/renegade angels), stars, moon, kings, princes, nobles, commoners, wild animals, domesticated animals, trees, other plants, precious stones, precious metals, and other minerals.

The great chain of being (Latin: scala naturae, "ladder of being") is a concept derived from Plato, Aristotle (in his Historia animalium), Plotinus, and Proclus. Further developed during the Middle Ages, it reached full expression in early modern Neoplatonism. wikipedia