The Birds (page 2)

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The double headed eagle is also an emblem of the Byzantine Empire.

This relief is at the front entrance of Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical_Patriarchate_of_Constantinople

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Watchtowers and the double headed eagle? Now, whatever could this symbolism mean?

Crosato, Giovanni Battista

Rezzonico Coat-of-Arms (1752)

Fresco Ca'Rezzonico, Venice

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Albrect Durer

Emperor Maximilian I

Could the pomegranate have some symbolic meaning?

What's with the double headed eagle in the right upper corner?

Can anyone translate the "writing on the wall"?

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How odd that there would be a flag with this double headed bird at the crucifixion!

This painting was executed in 1500.

Also note the flag with the scorpion. Or could it be a lobster? Sometimes in archaic renderings, the lobster is interchangeable with the crab as a zodiac sign.

I wonder why these symbols were used in this painting.

Are they hidden messages for us to decipher?

Black Sheep

It could just be that two headed birds are not all that uncommon and some of them live relatively normal lives.

Some of them are quite spectacular.

The poultry industry gets a lot of birds with extra heads and legs. We don't see them as they get destroyed as day old chicks.

Spike Tassel

Cameo, your Post 3973 has "Deutsches Jugendfest 1936", which means German Youth Festival, as shown at http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22jugendfest+1936%22&meta=&btnG=Google+Search

your Post 3986 says "SI DEVS PRO NOBIS", which means IF GOD IS FOR US [implying … WHO CAN BE AGAINST US?], as http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22SI+DEVS+PRO+NOBIS%22&btnG=Search&meta= bears out.

your Post 3987 had a longer inscription. I found info on that at http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22potentissimvs+maximvs+et+invictissimvs%22&btnG=Search&meta= . The best of the 3 sites there was http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_084b.jpg

your Post 4010 shows I·N·R·I [IESVS·NAZARENVS·REX·IVDEORVM], which means JESUS OF NAZARETH, KING OF THE JEWS.

According to George Gherveghese Joseph, the mathematics required to build the bird-shaped altar involve a very sophisticated knowledge of geometry, and "the procedures described for their construction involve methods for approximating the values for the square roots of 2 and 5. (...) Solutions were achieved through the principle of dissection and reassembly and ingenious algorithms, including the so-called Pythagorean theorem" 6

http://www.paolaraffetta.com.ar/extension/building_on_sacrifice.html

Is it possible that the "sacrificial barbecue" lends itself to the bird shape?

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Here's one that shows the rider of the white horse.

quote:

The two-headed eagle emblem of the Byzantine Empire (Roman Empire) on a Red Shield was adopted in 1743 by the infamous goldsmith Amschel Moses Bauer. He opened a coin shop in Frankfurt, Germany and hung above his door this Roman eagle on a red shield. The shop became known as the “Red Shield firm”. The German word for ‘red shield’ is Rothschild. After this point, the Rothschilds became the bankers to kings and pontiffs alike, among the richest families in the world.

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I find this to be one of the most interesting of the collections of similar designs for two reasons: firstly, the red shield is mentioned in scripture as a description of "gods mighty warriors" (Nahum 2: 3), and secondly because the rider of a white horse is mentioned in bible scriptures as well.

Here is an interesting story as to how and why the Rothschild's became god's chosen bankers. I am not sure whether this is told as truth or legend. You decide.

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2008/jewish/The-First-Rothschild.htm

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The Devil Bird

The Devil Bird of Sri Lanka and India was once a mysterious cryptid found only in the densest mountain jungles. Known to the natives as Ulama or Maha Bakamuna, it was known to several tribes, all of whom described it as a rarely seen large bird which hid itself from humans as much as possible. Usually the only evidence of the bird's existence was its extremely loud, frightening cry, which sounded remarkably like a human being in pain or dying. Both the natives and settlers from foreign countries associated the bird with the devil because of its call, earning it the name of Devil Bird.

All that changed in July of 2001, when a species of owl was identified which matched the description perfectly.

It was designated Bubo nipalensis, a close relative of the forest eagle owl, which also lives in Sri Lanka. B. nipalensis has no common name yet, but it matches the description of the Maha Bakamuna perfectly (it is also the largest owl in Sri Lanka).

http://www.cryptozoology.com/glossary/glossary_topic.php?id=251

Could this double headed predator bird be a symbolic image of "Satan's Organization"? (Perhaps this explains why it is also found in churches.)

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Does anyone have information on this painting? Artist? Story? Background?

I notice a lot of freemasonry symbols...the square and compass, the owl, the pick ax and shovel, brick masonry, rotary wheel, pillar,

Also some symbols used in religion...the ships anchor, scrolls, ancient book, wheat

So why is she wearing this two headed bird?

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