EUGIM wrote:Stevie: I am not agree regarding the gryphon you called the sphinx.

...the creature simply looks more like a Sphinx than a Griffin.

SteveM
Gryphus significat sapientiam jungendam fortitudini, sed sapientiam debere praeire, fortitudinem sequi.

* Onager : http://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast211.htm * Ape: http://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast148.htm Like the Sphinx both ape and ass as well as being associated with ignorance and folly are equated with the devil. -Leaving this wheel of ignorance we can reach the next row from XI to XX and then once le...

Tarocch. Tarocco, germini, minchiate. Tarots. Tarocch. Borra, pedale, toppo, tronco. Tranc, grosse souche de bois, f., chantier, chicot m. Some definitions from Florio and Cotgrove: Tronco: a trunk, a stock, a log, a block, a stump, a stem without boughes. Also a bodie without a head. Also a tronch...

... related to 'tarocch' as meaning a 'geneological tree'? The Vocabolario milanese-italiano-francese by Eugenio Cappelletti (1848) gives as Italian and French synonyms of the Milanese Tarocch: Tarocch. Tarocco, germini, minchiate. Tarots. Tarocch. Borra, pedale, toppo, tronco. Tranc, grosse souche...

... It does say a lot though that religious figures such as the Pope and Mary could be mixed with symbols such as the Sphinx. I get the sense sometimes that the period must have been sort of like the period today where all kinds of ideas get mixed up together and "sampled" and then new wo...

I can't find an image on line, but there is a statue by Donatello while in Padua c. 1446-50 of The Madonna with Child on a throne flanked by two Sphinxes with a relief of Adam and Eve on the thrones back. Found one, Statue of Madonna and Child in Sant. Antonio, Padua: http://i161.photobucket.com/al...

The narrative line of the play begins with the prophesy to Laius, the ruler of Thebes and Oedipus’s father. He is warned of the future behavior of his son. He tries to prevent this behavior, but he fails. He cannot prevent the appearance of a son who will slay him, claim political authority, and ta...

In this instance they are generally interpreted by scholars as allegories of knowledge; but in connection with its associations with ignorance and folly could also be taken in their relationship with Adam and Eve as related to the Fall (or otherwise in relation to the fruit of the tree of knowledge...

Sphinx throne +Vatican = great find! I wonder what its providence is? I can't find an image on line, but there is a statue by Donatello while in Padua c. 1446-50 of The Madonna with Child on a throne flanked by two Sphinxes with a relief of Adam and Eve on the thrones back. In this instance they are...

"The Lost Tarot" currently being promulgated on the history forum by its author 'beano' over at AT.