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THE
CHURCH OF THE MILK DONATING MOTHER
Originally from Egypt, Babylon and Canaan
(Astarte) finding Her way through Cyprus (where She is called Panayia Galaktorofousa) to
Western-Europe, the Milk Donating Mother was a central event - a true apparition - of the
Madonna to St.Bernard to whom She let drip a few drops of milk on his tongue.....through
which he became a passionate devotee to the Eternal-Feminine for life.... |
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CHAPEL
HOUSE
Only initiates i.e. members of the
community were allowed to enter here. It is the Hall for important meetings i.e. decision
making. Again entirely symbolic: the entrance (tympanum) - or does it hide an altar? -
with Mother Scallop, while surrounded by three beautiful Green Men/Custodians. Something
like this wouldn't be in the Chapter House, unless having a central meaning to the
community....and they are certainly not Christian symbols... |
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Again rather dark here. Add to
it that it was forbidden to photograph (there were only guided tours), later turned into a
prohibition to flash......you can understand that everything was a little confusing.
Indeed a pity, for the monastery is in dire need of good PR. Good pictures are a part of
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Two times three faces. Those
who have buried themselves a little in the Mother Mysteries, know that these are male
copies - Green Men - of the Threefold Goddess.....The Church has nothing else to say, but
that these pictures are "puzzling".....LINK: Zwickau |
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Phoenix
and Green Man are two sides of the same coin. Because the core of both is: "death and
rebirth". Above the emphasis lies on the Green Man - in ecstacy - left and right on
the Phoenix. Again it is an indication of the fact how intensively this monastic community
had committed itself to mystical spirituality....... |
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 Gegenstand
- again a Three-faced God? - aus dem (kleinen) Museum |
CLOISTER |
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In the middle of the cloister
there is a fountain with images that you don't recognize immediately. They are our
brothers Green Men Indians from South-America. As is known it were them who were almost
totally wiped out by the Spaniards. Unfortunately, the Templars (as well as other monks)
have played a (major) role in this, after they had changed their continental life into a
colonial one... |
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 Entrance to
the compound |
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At the gate a statue of a
person who is crushing another man with his feet. Until know I have no idea who they are |
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