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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] Yes there are early Medeival images of the trinity in Europe that are depicted as black. There are early Christian illuminated manuscripts with blacks in them. Some of them look like the Ethiopian illuminated Bibles and manuscripts. But most of these are not images of people deliberately painted black. They are simply darkened images of old paintings that don't prove anything. [QUOTE] In the middle of the 14th century, one of the most profound examples of the symbol of the blackamoor can be seen in the use of this image to represent Christ. It is clear from the documentation we have for the city of Lauingen in Germany, for example, that at about this time, the city's seal with the head of Christ wearing a crown of thorns is transformed to the head of a blackamoor wearing a golden crown. That the latter insignia is meant to represent the former is quite obvious from the accompanying inscriptions. One of the earlier ones read: "Sigillum civium de Lougingin" (seal of the city of Lauingen), while a later version clearly explains itself as the "Sigillum secretum civitatis palatinae Lavgingen (secret seal of the palatinate city of Lauingen)." A German heraldic scholar writing before World War II offered two other reasons for a similar coats of arms. He pointed out that Ethiop (sun burnt) the black was a sun sign and therefore a symbol of divinity that could alternately be used for the Son of God or the Son of Man. He also pointed out that from what we know of the cult of the Black Madonna, the blazon of the blackamoor queen was a reference to Mary, the Queen of Heaven or her prefiguration as the Queen of Sheba and that the male versions of these insignia were therefore references to her Son. [/QUOTE]From: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/secret/famous/ssecretum2.html Edmond likes posting images of whites and claiming they represent blacks making a joke of himself. Most of the illuminated manuscripts that were heavily influential in early Christianity came from Spain, but of course most of those were destroyed or are hidden in private collections. [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/B_Facundus_253v.jpg[/IMG] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Beatus_de_Facundus A good book on the subject: http://www.amazon.com/Early-Spanish-Manuscript-Illumination-Williams/dp/080760867X/ref=pd_sim_b_1 Not to mention the fact that Egypt, Nubia and Ethiopia were some of the earliest places to accept Christianity and produce such artwork. And of course the whole idea of such illuminated manuscripts goes back to the ancient illuminated scrolls from Egypt to begin with. So that is why many of the earliest such Medieval images would have featured blacks. Christ is nothing but Horus and of course Horus represents Kingship. The pharaoh was the living Horus and therefore child of Isis who crowned him with her glory. He was the ultimate manifestation of the "risen god" in life or risen essence of the divine Sun (Ra) in the flesh who shone forth brilliance crowned with the sun's rays (original halo). [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/B_Escorial_100.jpg/498px-B_Escorial_100.jpg[/IMG] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dsmdgold/Manuscript_galleries_under_construction [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/B_Pierpont_112.jpg[/IMG] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:B_Pierpont_112.jpg Oddly enough some Ethiopian painters still use light complexions in their work: [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Christ_in_Glory._Ethipoic_Gospels_-_Parchment_manuscript_British_Library_Or._MS_481,_f.110v.jpg[/IMG] Of course this tradition is as old as any illumination in Europe and the similarities between the two is striking, which likely reflects influence from Ethiopia to early Europe. Yet the evidence for early works of Ethiopian illumination are hard to come by, even though Ethiopia converted to Christianity in the 4th century A.D. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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