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Complex Iconography and Contradictory Content in Architecture
2007.11.21 11:32
[J. B,
Thanks for the quick response, and 'oh well' and 'that's OK'. Don't put me down for #24. I learned something (again)--if I want to write about something or 'pick' something I'll just do, without the 'frame' of editorship (which is what I felt all along). It seems that my asking [after first being asked and declining] to be guest editor, regardless of the answer, ended the discussion evenly.
Two news items from yesterday interest me, and I'll write about them later today within a thread I started well over a year ago. It's more fitting I write today too, because it's Quondam's 11th anniversary.
Steve
ps
What I meant by "Too bad this is a private email discussion" is that I would have preferred the discussion to have been within the archinect forum. I've always felt open forums suffer when......]
Lupercale Found
Digging into Jerusalem
...about two 8th century BC events.
Ah! Romulus and Remus, real brothers metabolic. It's said their father was a god and their mother a raped virgin. They say the father of Jesus was God and his mother an non-raped virgin.
Re: Bib. for Cyrillona's Mariology?
2003.08.09 13:32
John,
Thank you for the Graef citation. If Graef does indeed confuse Immaculate Conception with Annunciation/Incarnation, then this is one more example where such a mistake is made within modern scholarship. I have become very intolerant of this mistake after finding it several times within contemporary architectural theory texts. I even see this presence of misinformation compounded because it implicates not only authors, but editors/review peerage as well. This mistake needs broad/public attention within the realm of scholarship simply to cease the perpetuation of its existence.
It is the Annunciation, as reported by Luke 1:26-38, where a series of events are clearly described.
1. (26) The angel Gabriel is sent by God to Nazareth. The presence of an angel already constitutes a miraculous event, a theophany.
2. (27) The angel is sent to a betrothed virgin named Mary. Here Scripture clearly states that Mary is a virgin and that she is promised in marriage to Joseph.
3. (28) In greeting, Gabriel exalts Mary; "the Lord is with thee" reiterates the theophany, thus Mary's being "full of grace" and "Blessed among women" is Divinely sanctioned.
4. (29) Mary is troubled by such a greeting, signifying her overall innocence in this situation.
5. (30) Gabriel assures Mary of her safety within the theophany taking place.
6. (31) Gabriel 'announces' to Mary that she will conceive and subsequently give birth to a boy, Jesus.
7. (32-33) Gabriel Highly exalts the nature of Mary's announced offspring, indeed to the point of infinity.
8. (34) Mary exclaims confusion at the announcement, while she herself proclaims her virginity.
9. (35) Gabriel tells Mary the Holy Spirit will come upon her, the Most High will overshadow her, and the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God. Gabriel essentially announces the soon forthcoming of the Trinity, a complete theophany.
10. (36) Gabriel then announces the Precursor, John the Baptist.
11. (37) "for nothing shall be impossible with God."
12. (38) Mary's ultimate reply, "Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to thy word," is extremely important on two counts. First, it is at the moment of Mary's complicity that the Incarnation (the Word becoming flesh) occurs. (Note Gabriel efficiently departs as soon as his task is complete.) Second, without Mary's complicity, the Incarnation would have been the result of a rape, not at all unlike the sexual relationship between Mars (a divinity) and Rhea Silvia (a Vestal Virgin), another reported theophany which progenerated Rome.
After the Annunciation/Incarnation comes the Visitation, where John the Baptist, when he for the first time is in the presence of the Incarnation, takes a noticeable pre-natal leap.
The last time Jesus was at the Temple in Jerusalem he manifest a riotous disturbance of the wanton commercialism going on there. Within a week of that Jesus was labeled "King of the Jews" dead on a cross. They say half of that label was rediscovered sometime in the mid 16th century, buried behind a wall for safekeeping, within the Helena chapel of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme (Holy Cross in Jerusalem). It appears to be a true 1st century AD artifact.
Romulus's life ended in the thirty-eighth year of his reign, with a supernatural disappearance, if he was not slain by the Senate.
One day, when Romulus and all the people had gone to the Campus Martius, a sudden storm arose. The darkness became so great that the people fled in terror. When the storm was over, the Romans returned. To their surprise, however, Romulus had disappeared. The people sent for him, but none could find him. The people were amazed, and were all talking about his sudden disappearance, and wondering what could have become of their king, when one of the Senators stood up and called for silence.
After the Senator calmed the mass of people, he told the assembled Romans that he had seen Romulus being carried up into the heavens.
Ascension of Jesus
Gabriel and Mohammad's Ascension
Julian the Apostate died in battle somewhere in Persia, and is no doubt buried in the footnotes.
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