Aquilæ duæ, una ab ortu, altera ab occasu conveniunt

Michael Maier, 1618 “Aquilæ duæ, una ab ortu, altera ab occasu conveniunt.” Atalanta Fugiens, Emblema XLVI, page 193, the motto printed over the engraving.

Symbolica, 2026 Maier’s Latin, put into English here: Two eagles meet, one from the east and one from the west.

Michael Maier, 1618 “Jupiter e DELPHIS aquilas misisse gemellas
Fertur ad Eoas Occiduasque plagas:
Dum medium explorare locum desiderat Orbis,
(Fama ut habet) Delphos hae rediere simul.
Ast illae lapides bini sunt, unus ab ortu,
Alter ab occasu, qui bene conveniunt.” Atalanta Fugiens, Epigramma XLVI, page 193, the six lines printed under the engraving.

Symbolica, 2026 Maier’s epigram, put into English here: Jupiter is said to have sent twin eagles from DELPHI to the eastern and the western regions, wanting to find the middle place of the World; and, as the story has it, they came back to Delphi together. But those two are two stones, one from the rising and one from the setting, which agree well together.

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2. 1The Birdthe two eagles alighting on the hands of the crowned figure
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4. 2The Divinethe crowned and bearded figure between the eagles, Jupiter

The two eagles alighting on the hands of the bearded figure between them. By eye

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