Hammer Purgstall~the Significance Of Some Of The Black & White Images Of The Dragon

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  1. CULCULCAN

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    Hammer Purgstall explains the significance
    of some of the above black and white images:

    Regarding THE DRAGON,
    it will not be irrelevant for us to say a few words.

    That quadruped, scaly and rough, with tail twisted back,
    seems in actual fact to be a crocodile rather than a dragon,
    and soon you will see that it makes no difference
    if it is called a crocodile.

    Since in the sculpture of the bowl (Tab. II, fig. 4)
    it threatens to devour the infant, and since, in the sculptures
    of the Templar churches the same dragon is represented
    as swallowing down the infant, we call it a dragon.

    For according to St. Epiphanius the Ophites taught that the one presiding
    over this world has the likeness of a dragon.

    By it, souls not having Gnosis are absorbed, and through its tail,
    [they are] poured back into this world.

    We will, however, find below, in the explanation by Schoengrad
    regarding the sculptures of the churches of the Templars,
    an image of such a dragon swallowing down and pouring back the infant.

    It is sufficient here to notice that that man who, in the relief of the second bowl, drags the infant out of the dragon’s jaw, represents a true Gnostic who,
    by pouring Gnosis into the infant, hinders him from being absorbed
    by the world.

    The imagery also reminds us of Egyptian depictions of the afterlife
    where the initiate’s heart is weighed against a feather of Ma’at
    on Thoth’s Scale of Truth in the Duat.

    If the heart is heavier than a feather, then the initiate is devoured
    by the monstrous goddess, Ammit.

    If the heart is lighter, then the initiate is free to move on
    to the Egyptian paradise Auru.

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    • Lloyd Belcour
      Since in the sculpture of the bowl (Tab. II, fig. 4)
      it threatens to devour the infant, and since, in the sculptures
      of the Templar churches the same dragon is represented
      as swallowing down the infant, we call it a dragon.

      For according to St. Epiphanius the Ophites
      taught that the one presiding over this world
      has the likeness of a dragon.
      By it, souls not having Gnosis are absorbed,
      and through its tail, [they are] poured back into this world.

    • Susan Lynne Schwenger says:
      in one calendar the crocodile is day 1
     

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