tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5953806385060168124.post5995515254660915737..comments2024-03-28T15:08:14.799+08:00Comments on From the Narrow Desert: Sync: Odin at the door, DD lemniscates, sideways eyeballsWm Jas Tychonievichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07446790072877463982noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5953806385060168124.post-68947386238114868752023-03-31T11:35:55.923+08:002023-03-31T11:35:55.923+08:00Apparently that's not Odin at the door. I thin...Apparently that's not Odin at the door. I think it's an illustration of the opening lines of the <i>Hávamál</i>:<br /><br />At every door-way,<br />ere one enters,<br />one should spy round,<br />one should pry round<br />for uncertain is the witting<br />that there be no foeman sitting,<br />within, before one on the floor.<br /><br />The picture shows a man looking around warily, his hand on the hilt of his sword, as he knocks on the door.<br /><br />It certainly looks like Odin, though, and perhaps Odin's advice about entering doors cautiously comes from his own experience wandering Midgard disguised as a cloaked traveler.Wm Jas Tychonievichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07446790072877463982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5953806385060168124.post-8565232412492325722023-03-31T07:54:43.650+08:002023-03-31T07:54:43.650+08:00So the two doors, DD, are kinda like DevaDeva - tw...So the two doors, DD, are kinda like DevaDeva - two gods.<br /><br /><br />That SI symbol is a bit like a caduceus, associated with Hermes. But I think it's even more like the Rod of Asclepius (which features in the Star of Life, which features a six-pointed symbol). And Asclepius is associated with Apollo. <br /><br />Is Asclepius the Hermes character not fully detached from Apollo? The Apollo character has healing and oracular (messenger?) functions that he would share with a Hermes-Asclepius being.<br /><br />This also reminds me of another certain character (from the Rod of Asclepius wikipedia page, Theologiae Graecae Compendium, by Cornutus, supposedly written 1st century):<br /><br />"Asclepius derived his name from healing soothingly and from deferring the withering that comes with death. For this reason, therefore, they gave him a serpent as an attribute, indicating that those who avail themselves of medical science undergo a process similar to the serpent in that they, as it were, grow young again (!) after illnesses and slough off old age..."<br /><br />And apparently there are early depictions of a youthful-looking Jesus with a 'wand'.bennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5953806385060168124.post-60335056266251113852023-03-31T07:10:15.473+08:002023-03-31T07:10:15.473+08:00The DD lemniscate can instead be split into an S-c...The DD lemniscate can instead be split into an S-curve and a straight line, which suggest the Latin letters S and I. That's not quite a match with the car wash logo, although since we're talking about Jesus recall the reminder from Dr. Henry Jones, Sr.: "But in the Latin alphabet, 'Jehovah' begins with an 'I.'"<br /><br />SI/SJ in this context brings to mind the Society of Jesus.<br /><br />Various decorations on and in the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini, Italy apparently feature an SI monogram, though it's explicitly the Latin letters S and I.Ben Pratthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11467569063226769498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5953806385060168124.post-13888815933995827652023-03-30T22:15:57.042+08:002023-03-30T22:15:57.042+08:00STGT turns out to be a local company called Shin T...STGT turns out to be a local company called <a href="https://www.shintais.com.tw/index_en.php" rel="nofollow">Shin Tai Spurt Water of the Garden Tools Co., Ltd.</a> (sic), which makes sprinklers, spray heads for garden hoses, etc. No idea why their logo would feature an eye.Wm Jas Tychonievichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07446790072877463982noreply@blogger.com