Saturday, 21 November 2009

Mythology fo eye, representations in art


The Eye of Horus: http://www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk/eye.html

Creation stories:
http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab83

India: "In an early story Purusha is a primal man sacrificed by the gods as the act of creation. The sky comes from his head, the earth from his feet, the sun from his eye and the moon from his mind."

China: "After all this effort P'an Ku falls to pieces. His limbs become the mountains, his blood the rivers, his breath the wind and his voice the thunder. His two eyes are the sun and the moon. The parasites on his body are mankind."

Suns and Planets in Neolithic Rock Art:
http://www.maverickscience.com/arch-sun-planets.htm [Not sure this is useful, looks a bit 'whacky' to me]

Bosch, 'Saint John The Baptist on Patmos'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John_the_Evangelist_on_Patmos

front of the image
back of the image


It looks to me like the reverse of the painting expands the colour and circular motif of the moon from the front and turns it into teh pupil of an eye. God's eye

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