The Tetramorph brings together four winged beings from mythologies: the Angel, the Eagle, the Bull, and the Lion. The first two undoubtedly have wings. The most singular are the wings of Taurus or Leo. Could they be constellations? Should this be seen as an indication of the origin of an extraterrestrial people?
Several superior extraterrestrial species looked at the cradle of the blue planet when it was a baby, and long after. This is what some authors think, relying on various matching traditions. Could it be that visitors to the constellations of Taurus and Leo are two of these good fairies? Which would justify the wings to the bull as to the lion: they came flying from these constellations. Yet the other two figures composing the Tetramorph, that of the Man, or rather the Angel since he has wings, and that of the Eagle, are not part of the zodiac constellations. An investigation is needed, can it shed light on this mystery.
The Tetramorph was also associated with the four evangelists. This association did not immediately become established. The Old Testament first brought them closer to the four great biblical prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel, before comparing them to the four cherubim that surround the throne of God. Long after, the neo-Christians of the cult of Jesus reprised the four creatures of the Tetramorph to make them reborn in this new religion which suffered from its glaring lack of ancient roots.
Another mention of the Tetramorph appears in the apocalypse of John, which evokes the four creatures around the throne of God: “The first animal resembled a lion, the second a young bull, the third had a human face, and the fourth looked like a human face. an eagle in full flight.”
Saint Jerome (348-420 CE) explains the choice of the evangelists:
– the man was attributed to Matthew because he begins his gospel with a human genealogy of Jesus (Mt 1, 1-17)
– the lion to Mark because from the first lines of his story he evokes “the voice that cries in the desert” which can only be the roar of the lion (Mc 1,3)
– the bull, sacrificial animal par excellence, to Luke who begins by the story of the sacrifice offered by Zacharias to the temple of Jerusalem (Lk 1,5)
– the eagle to John because this evangelist reaches the summit of the doctrine as the eagle those of the mountains. (source)
I doubt it … it’s a little far-fetched, my good man Jerome. Besides, St. Ireneus of Lyons (circa 180) had already compared the four evangelists to the figures of the tetramorph, to the nuance that he attributes the eagle to Mark and the lion to John. (source)
Good. The exegetes are not too sure of their business. It is as if these four figures — already present long before Jesus’ Christianity — were still the subject of a vernacular cult, and that it seemed appropriate for the young church to retrain them to justify this ancient cult by Christianizing it.
The first Church Fathers abused this strategy, recycling parties in honor of Mithra, Isis or Lugh. Pagan celebrations have become Christian festivals, even distorting their essence, thus ruining any spiritual efficacy.
The syncretism of the young church of Jesus has created a great confusion of symbols, prophets and rites. The result was a holy messsorry that centuries and councils only multiplied and generalized, until the Second Vatican Council where the awful John XXIII absolutely denatured the ritual of the mass. He dissociated sacred sites, he changed the place of the high altar and the position of the celebrant, which, for all geobiologists, proceeds from a reprehensible ignorance or assumed cynicism. It seems that this Pope, after the suppression of the Mass in Latin, wanted to give the coup de grace to this religion — already decadent in Europe.
It has been understood that the tetramorph has not been created by Christians. It has “a more distant origin, the four guardians of the world or the four carriers of the sky arranged in the four corners of the firmament of the ancient East. We recognize the stellar symbols of the zodiac of the “fixed cross” which are the bull, the lion, the scorpion and the aquarius – the scorpion being replaced by the eagle and the aquarius by the man.” (source)
The zodiac has three crosses: the cardinal, fixed and mutable crosses. If astrologers now take the cardinal cross as its origin, it has not always been so. For a long time it was the fixed cross. The Babylonian texts always begin their enumeration of signs by the fixed sign of Taurus. The Hebrew and Arabic languages have as first letter of their alphabet Aleph and Alif which precisely means “bull”. Scorpio, Leo and Aquarius also belong to the cross of the fixed signs. This cross reminds us of the time when the zodiac was marked by the brightest stars of these signs: Antares for Scorpio, Regulus for Leo, Aldebaran for Taurus. These four signs constitute the figure of the Tetramorph which is found several times in ancient literature. The prophet Ezekiel saw these four signs in his vision of the heavenly throne. Oedipus confronted the sphinge: his body is that of a bull, his chest is that of a lion, his wings are those of an eagle (often symbolic equivalent of Scorpio) and his woman’s face that of Aquarius.
“The Babylonians always begin with the fixed sign of Taurus.” Here is a truth that requires reflection. For me, Taurus was a feminine sign originally, which was masculinized when the nascent patriarchy wanted to erase all memories of matriarchy, the time when goddesses walked among men.
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