The great circular seal, with the sun at its heart
The Heavens as the central motif, with the Sun and the Moon, the Triangle and the Pyramid and the Divine in a secondary part. From Amphitheatrum.
What is happening
Symbolica, 2026 The rings of this plate are lettered continuously and are not yet transcribed here; the plate stands on its picture until they are. The title given is the archive's description, not Khunrath's.
Key · 4 motifs
The motifs the picture carries, filed by role. The marks on the picture itself come with the entry.
- 1The Heavenscentral motif as it reads here: The great circular seal, with the sun at its heart
- 2The Sun and the Moonsecondary motif
- 3The Triangle and the Pyramidsecondary motif
- 4The Divinesecondary motif
The picture
A great wheel of concentric rings lettered throughout, a triangle bearing the Hebrew name at the top, the sun with a face at the centre, small figures and the tetragrammaton in the corners. By eye
Not yet decoded: the key and the sourced notes come with the entry. Until then the motifs above are tagged by eye and said so.
Also carrying the Heavens
36 works carry it. The 6 where it is the central motif are here. The symbol.
Where the detail is the subject
the Sun and the Moon · the Triangle and the Pyramid · the Divine
Each of these is in the picture without being what it is about. Below, one work that is about each.
In the same series
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