EUCHOLOGIUM of the cathedral of Otranto with a most interesting Italian-Greek text concerning the ceremony of wedding. Puglia, XII c. (Ottob.gr. 344)

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Over the Imperial Gate from the narthex to the church Leo VI, the Wise (886-912), is thus shown prostrated at the feet of Christ with medallions of the Virgin and an Archangel above. The Archangel no doubt symbolizes the belief that the chuch of Hagia Sophia was built with divine aid while Angels watched.


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Peacock (pavum, ὁ ταώς).

The symbolism of peacock belongs to the antiquity, where it equally expressed immortality. Ancient established the symbolic value of this bird on the tradition about incorruptibility of its meat. That is why Pythagoras moves the soul of immortal writers, as, for instance, Homer, into the peacock. In this selection of bird ( Read more... )

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