Lapis, quem Saturnus, pro Jove filio devoratum, evomuit, Pro monumento in Helicone mortalibus est positus

Michael Maier, 1618 “Lapis, quem Saturnus, pro Jove filio devoratum, evomuit, Pro monumento in Helicone mortalibus est positus.” Atalanta Fugiens, Emblema XII, page 57, the motto printed over the engraving.

Symbolica, 2026 Maier’s Latin, put into English here: The stone Saturn vomited up stands on Helicon.

Michael Maier, 1618 “Nosse cupis causam, tot cur HELICONA poetae
Dicant, quodque ejus cuique petendus apex?
Est LAPIS in summo, MONUMENTUM, vertice postus,
Pro Jove deglutiit quem vomuitque pater.
Sic ceu verba sonant rem captas, mens tibi laeva est,
Namque est Saturni CHEMICUS ille LAPIS.” Atalanta Fugiens, Epigramma XII, page 57, the six lines printed under the engraving.

Symbolica, 2026 Maier’s epigram, put into English here: Do you want to know why so many poets speak of HELICON, and why each of them must seek its summit? A STONE is set on the topmost peak, a MONUMENT, the one the father swallowed in Jove's place and vomited up again. If you take the thing as the words sound, your mind is turned the wrong way, for that STONE of Saturn is a CHEMICAL one.

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2. 1The Divinethe gods in the sky, throwing the stone down onto the peak of Helicon

The peak of Helicon, with the gods above throwing down the stone. By eye

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