by Anura Guruge
on October 14, 2024
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I learnt about ‘Vesica Piscis‘ from a young docent at the ‘Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum‘ two year ago. [Refer to this post.] He pulled up the Wikipedia entry for it and showed it to me on his phone. I took a photo.
I had first thought that it was an image of Jesus. But, then it was obvious, from the clothing if nothing else, that it was meant to be feminine & was the ‘Virgin Mary‘.
Well, you can’t miss the ‘opening‘ — even if you tried. I had never seen this imagery.
In the context of the Virgin Mary it represents the obvious. The birth canal (or the womb). It represents the Universal Beginning.
This makes sense. I had studied the related concept when it came to the entrances of cathedrals (in particular) — but, in general, most churches. See image below. Again, once you ‘see it’ there is no taking it back. Yes, the same thing. The entrance to the birth canal. In the case of church entrances it is to take you back to your roots. Look carefully. I circled them in the above image. Some entrances go as far as having a circular protuberance at the apex. They are not leaving anything to doubt.
Then two days ago I saw a post for ‘Sheela na gig‘ on Facebook. Wow.
