Image of the Day : Santiago de Compostela

He looks like how Jesus is often represented in art.

Kathleen xxoo

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‘You do not choose the Camino, the Camino chooses you’ (as said to Sr Joyce Rupp)- I am discovering this invitation for myself. 6 months ago, my husband died – and now I take this pilgrimage to help me make sense.

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I’ve just come from Whitstable Festival, a small fishing village in Kent, England and along the beach there were lots of shell lanterns made by children from Oyster Shells, with a placard saying tribute to Saint James, thanks to this image, i’ve now just twigged exactly which Saint James!!!

Apparantly this has been a long established tradition, which is many hundreds of years old..

Wonderful to now have this connection.

Thanks.

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Querido Paulo,
feliz dia de Santiago, te envio el link de mi video
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=04Cr41ZccGM
un abrazo de luz!!
Pilar

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After a long time of insecurity and thinking am I finely om my way to Spain. I am bouth frightend and relived over my desision to walk. Afraid of the meting with myself and at the same time relived that the time has come for me to do it.

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His name significates “God grants, or, the lame”. Because lames, as was Jacob are supposed to receive Knowledge about after-life.
He’s recognized as Jesus brother; protector of companions. Emblem of those that walks on many europan roads that all ends in a place in Spain, -and not especially the one we believe-; making that way an inner travel, sustained by the Higher.

His attributes are the pilgrim stick, called “bumblebee” in french (:) to help in walking, but also to chase daemons, , the shell that time used to associate with Venus Aphrodite, the pilgrim clothes, the hat and the flask. He’s represented with a bag on his back, transmuted into wings.
Iago can also holds ropes, as he’s supposed “to tie and untie”.

Though here the shell is not visible, but is replaced with a pearl, hanged to the flask.
Even the pearl is to bring closer to brilliance, by its symbol of fecondity, melancholy provoked black bile by the feeling of the lost pearl. As “lost paradise”. When one person can’t find the verb behind the shell.
Isn’t the pearl our own queste of Graal? We are up to fulfil the path or stray (far) from it.
Iago received honors about overcoming shelves of life, never forgetting Earth and Sky.

That’s why the pilgrimage liberates from the dungeon.

Above the stick and the flask is a horn. As a bull one. May be symbolize the authority of faith, regarding to wisdom quest; capable to turn a beast into lamb. As in Iago legend.
But it also can be the symbol of the moon, sometimes called the perfect horn. Or Civa’s Horn. Also, tales narrate that the primary bull would have put the semen into “night’s star”. Here is hidden strength.
That crescent refers to virtue (chastity then), and birth. Though again, a symbol of feminity and virginity, the no-created semen refers to the miracle of life, with both principles.
We can blow into a horn to make a sound, which attest the originel act; AUM, sacred primal sound in Hindu culture.

Above Iago’s head, is a the symbol of the hat, but depicted as sun, or a gold plat. This is precious matter transmuted from a darkened low one. One of Christ’s teaching in experiment. We can find it as a circle behind all saints head. The perfect circle, as divine nature in immortality promise. The crown symbolizing the link between what is above to what is underneath. A sacred work so. Once more it’s Graal attitude. Still, circles are often drawing a moon, by the presence of the head, cutting it in a lieu.
In gold, it may be concern the attribute from above, and here from the sun, the Father (in this catholic representation)and the reverse crescent of the moon for the Mother: Whereas both principles are linked above, they have to be separated in two parts, two brains , two legs, or two hands. As the sun for light and moon for darkness, though the latter is not the black.
The head for the father with sun, celestial inspiration, and the Mother, with moon, water, and magy; the left hand for, that figures material things, and underworld inspiration. But I’m not sure if my thought here is not so manichean.

Nevertheless, once more, the right hand indicates the upper world. It is the symbol of the sky, though the left symbolizes the Earth. Indeed while the left hand has to be active, reflexive, thick, the right hand is free from any weigh and subtle; ready to receive from above and give.
That pointed figure is frequently drawing in many paintings: Don’t forget the “above”, but also, that all that is above is equal to the under, and vice versa. The sun is above but also in ourselves. And Iago’s hand here, is acting in front of solar human heart.

I guess feminine cult had to be hidden, because of all references to its principle in religious inconography. And regard to the unwilling Father ‘s hegemony in catholic church.
Yet, first it seems humanity venerated Goddess, but maybe not Gods. I told it before, as long as we couldn’t understand the principle is as feminine as masculine, or none of them, we’ll create jealousy, so perdition.
God has created us as “its image”, and so that SHe may be phallic and vaginal, as none of one.

As for the deformation, it’s all about sex, and true gold presence in our body when we love and make love. A gift that had to be kept in silence. Maybe as it is a great force that could be in the way of material powerful men, that have other intents than the Divine, for humanity.

Love

Today is Iago day.

Respect.

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Happy St James Day!

Lets find those leading stars who can take us to our destiny.

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Santiago.
It was only when I was in Santiago this June to share and celebrate with you Paulo the road which was baptized with your name that I realized the true power of a pilgrim route.
To read that the Road to Santiago is under what we call The Milky Way is one thing, to experience the spirit of pilgrimage present in Santiago is something quite different.
I hope in the future to help preserve the Camino, to protect it and cherish it in some way.
And Santiago?
A great mystery, but a holy mystery which all nations and cultures need, no matter what their faith or their holy myths.
Blessings,
Karen
Rosa, hola que sitio mas maravilloso O’ Cebreiro para festejar este misterio tan bello.
Besos.

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