RE: [split] Roots and Eagle heraldry
cvetkakocj@rogers.com > 19-07-2022, 09:04 PM
I am not claiming that the roots are actual depiction of a coats of arms, because the connection between Northern Italy, Tyrol, Carinthia and Carniola go far further into the history. Assuming the author of the VM was a monk, mystic and humanistic writer, he would explore the ROOTS of religious schism, which go to ancient Aquileia (Aquila is Latin for eagle).
I don't know what the natives called Aquileia, but Slovenians always refer to it as OGLEJ (in English, that would mean 'look around'.
From there, the early Christianity spread like EAGLES WINGS, or perhaps the Winds (Vends) spread it.
Christianity came to that region from Aquileia before it became Roman state religion, and before the Langobards came to Northern Italy and brought Arian Christianity there. (By Arian, I do not mean in a nationalistic sense, but the teaching of Arius.) According to Paul the Deacon, the Langobards had to get permission to cross the 'provincia sclaborum' (I suppose this is how the historian of the Langobards re-named the ancient Veneti, while Germans applied the word Wends for them. In 553, under patriarch Macedonius, Liguria and Amilia, and Venetia and Istria broke off the communion with Rome.
In the 15th century, there was a threat that those regions will break away with Rome again. The Patriarchat of Aquileia was dissolved, but its conflicts with Rome did not end and those who searched for the ancient religious roots were persecuted and often ended on the stakes.
I suppose the heraldry works in different principles than art, but they both work on similar principle: in rearranging the symbols to leave recognizable clues. The art work has the advantage that certain symbols can apply for all the times and all places - like association of eagle with divinity.