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From: Akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi
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"In Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi (savior of the world) Da Vinci depicts Christ in his true representation: as that of the sacred pattern of death and resurrection, or as the pattern of transformation. In this particular painting Christ is shown as the resurrection but also as the Greek Ganymede and the constellation Aquarius (the water pourer). Christ is depicted holding in his left hand a globus cruciger. Normally a globus cruciger is a globe with a cross on top of it, but this one seems to be missing the cross, or is it? If one were to look closer at the globe in this painting you will see three dots within the globe. These three dots represent an asterism, or a collection of constellations in the sky, in what we call the summer triangle. Within the summer triangle rest the constellations; Cygnus the swan, which is comprised of the Northern Cross; Aquila, the eagle, and Lyra, the harp. Therefore, the cross lies within the globe in the form of the Northern Cross. In this painting, the star closest to the hand of Christ would be a where Aquila is in this asterism. This asterism is rising to the north of the rising sun on the morning of the winter solstice (the resurrection of the sun). Da Vinci left a hint in his painting that this is the correct interpretation interpretation of the three dots. The hint is in Christ’s clothing. First off, the fold in his robe as it passes behind the globe, and the three dots, happens to coincide with the milky way as it passes through the summer triangle. Within the globe he has reversed the summer triangle as one would naturally see the reverse image in a solid glass sphere, but it is the only thing he reversed within the globe. The second hint is that the Northern Cross in the globe, as it would rest within the depiction of the summer triangle, corresponds to the same angle of the belting across the chest of Christ. On this belting is a woven pattern representing unity and eternity in Islamic design. Not only is Da Vinci depicting Jesus but he’s also depicting a much deeper truth here in depicting Jesus as the mythological figure, Ganymede, or the constellation Aquarius. To the Greeks, the constellation Aquarius represented Ganymede the wine pourer; the mortal that the God’s stole away to themselves, for the love of his pure and beautiful mind, to dwell among them on Olympus. Zeus sent an eagle (the constellation Aquila) to grab Ganymede (the constellation Aquarius) from the earth. So if we were to watch the rising sun on the eastern horizon and the constellations that surround it from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox, we would see Zeus’s Eagle rising to the north of the sun parallel with the sun on the winter solstice. As we head toward the vernal equinox in March we see the eagle lifting Ganymede up into the sky and across the rising sun. Where Ganymede, or Jesus, temporarily becomes the sun, illuminating the world with his knowledge and Devine light. Da Vinci used this symbolism in the painting to represent the resurrection of the sun as this time also coincides with the rebirth of the human psyche within transformation. The really special hint involving Aquarius and the vernal equinox, left to us by Da Vinci, in this painting is… I’ll leave that to the readers to figure out. I can’t have all the fun. This hint is so subtle yet so obvious. And so we see Christ as Da Vinci did, as the yearly pattern of death and resurrection in the human psyche. Some may say, “Well that’s going too far with this interpretation,” some may say that it is outrageous that I would link something like what we currently call alien abduction with such a painting, but this is not the only painting where Da Vinci depicts Jesus as the constellation Aquarius or Ganymede. The Last Supper is another one; -Matthew Roberts |
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From: shadow , [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi
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Da Vinci was the greatest master of incorporating higher-resonance spiritual truth, utilizing his intuitive grasp of esoteric living symbolism, into works of art, imho... Many levels & contexts... This is an all-time favorite for me... ;) |
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From: kay.so.or, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi
| thank you, I knew him well :-) |
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From: Akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi
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there's more on the spiritual board. Glad you like it. Maybe you can guess the clues..? |
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From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: (responded to this on Spiritual... ;) n/t(NT)
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