Monday, May 4, 2009
The Orb and the Earth
The orb represents the earth it is true, but digging a little deeper, does the orb (earth) represent the divine rule of the king and his status as a representative of the god (s), or does it represent the agenda of the one world government; a new world order?
would the coronation of a king be a sort of mock coronation of a god, a symbolic type of what is in store for the new monarch?
The cross on the orb could also represent the sun, but that is a whole different post.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
sword - power
The sword is where the symbolism gets a little more abstract. It represents power, and power comes in many forms. Thus it should not surprise us that there are many alternate tools that can be used to symbolise power. A staff (or rod), a scepter (a stylized mace), a spear or stylized thunderbolt, or in the case of the Egyptian regalia - a crook and flail. The Egyptian crook and flail help to make clear what kind of power we are talking about; power over humans, the power to domesticate humans to be precise. The power to reward and to punish. Thus the double edges of the sword which can also can cut a thing in two, dividing the good from the evil (a key concept in human domestication).
robe - heavens
The royal robes are meant to signify the heavens above. The designs of some robes make this more evident, as in the case of Mithras' above. The sky was conceptualized as a veil over the earth, and a red or purple robe could easily represent the sky at the setting of the sun, as they did in Christ's mock coronation.
crown - sun rays
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