03-27-2023, 12:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-27-2023, 01:00 PM by Carl Lavoie.)
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In his DICTIONNAIRE MYTHO-HERMÉTIQUE, dans lequel on trouve les allégories fabuleuses des poètes, les métaphores, les énigmes et les termes barbares des philosophes hermétiques expliqués (1758), Dom Antoine-Joseph Pernety allude a few times to Medusa's severed head.
You would think, with the petrifying gaze, the blood changing to coral, etc. that it would have been freely used as a symbol in alchemical literature, and yet, I can't recall it being used in the texts before that, say, in the XVIIth or XVIth centuries (nor can I remember it coming up in the alchemical imagery of that time.)
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In his DICTIONNAIRE MYTHO-HERMÉTIQUE, dans lequel on trouve les allégories fabuleuses des poètes, les métaphores, les énigmes et les termes barbares des philosophes hermétiques expliqués (1758), Dom Antoine-Joseph Pernety allude a few times to Medusa's severed head.
You would think, with the petrifying gaze, the blood changing to coral, etc. that it would have been freely used as a symbol in alchemical literature, and yet, I can't recall it being used in the texts before that, say, in the XVIIth or XVIth centuries (nor can I remember it coming up in the alchemical imagery of that time.)
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