Click image for larger."Adoration of the Magi"
by Jerome Bosch
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
by Jerome Bosch
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
It's mathematically certain that the strange star in the skies above Western Europe just before the Battle of Hastings in 1066 was Comet Halley. It's possible, but far less certain, that the strange bright star in the heavens above Western Asia which the Magi followed to Bethlehem was also a previous visit by Comet Halley. Giotto witnessed Comet Halley and used its appearance in the night sky as his star in his "Adoration of the Magi."
Some scholars believe the significance of the Magi's pilgrimage to Bethlehem was to show that the new Christian faith was of fundamental importance and meaning to the inhabitants of the Persian sphere of Asia, and was not exclusively a new faith of significance to the inhabitants of the Greek and Roman spheres in North Africa and Europe. Three mystic masters of the ancient Persian system of Astrology had perceived that an Earth-changing event was about to take place, and knew that this strange star would guide them to it.
Vleeptron has already posted a remarkably beautiful illumination from the Winter Solstice and hopes your Solstice was a very good and happy one. Them what has warm feelings toward Christmas -- a very Merry and Happy Christmas to you all!
2 comments:
Merry Whatever Bob to you and yours. Miss you.
It can't really work, I suppose like this.
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