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Alkahest research Day 22
Michelangelo Zetterquist (see more by this artist)
12-18-2007 11:56 p.m. Page 58 home-work study, here is a splicing of a symbolic astrolabe representing the famous Orloj in Prague. The circle is also a metaphor for the Etruscan god Ixion who was crucified on a cross inside a wheel to pay for his sins. The Latin word "crucis" meaning cross, then combining of the two words meaning Ixion's cross or crucifixion.
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"Zeus ordered Hermes to bind Ixion to a winged fiery wheel that was always spinning;[6] only when Orpheus played his lyre did it stop for a while. Therefore, Ixion is bound to a burning solar wheel for all eternity"
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"At first mechanical astronomical clocks were influenced by the astrolabe; in many ways they could be seen as clockwork astrolabes designed to produce a continual display of the current position of the sun, stars, and planets."
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