Symbols - What does heaven look like
Twin horns
Thus the twin horns may be a symbolic representation of the two horns of the Creator and Created within the Trinity.
BUT, the horns can also be tunnels and thus by extension these are also the two paths to the figurative Sun and Moon, thus horns are also the twin tunnels.
This is why many of the Egyptian ‘gods’ and ‘goddesses’ wore horn shaped headdresses, it symbolically means they were in touch with the Creator and Created. It is also why any horned animal is especially revered in ancient cultures, they too are symbolically in touch with both the Creator and Created.
In one of the saddest literal interpretations of this symbolism, the rhino was especially revered in this context because its horns were perceived to be more symbolic of the actuality of the two tunnels – see rhinoceros.
Below : Isabella of Portugal
Observations
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- Ancestors, the - Art - Ecstasy
- Ancestors, the - Art - Petroglyph attributed to Classic Vernal Style, Fremont archaeological culture, eastern Utah, USA
- Ancient Egyptian - The sceptre as a symbol
- Andrija Puharich - Mushrooms, Parasols and Crowns
- Artāy Virāf - Chapter 8 - The Route to the Moon
- Artāy Virāf - Chapter 9 - The Route to the Sun
- Beuys, Joseph - Animals and Insects
- Blake, William - In deluge o’er the earth born man, then turned the fluxile eyes
- Blake, William - The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea
- Blithe spirit - Judgement Day
- Caesar, Ray - The vision of his mother that helped him become an artist
- Celtic - Brennus
- Chagall - danse
- Chicken Itza - Mayan - Chac Mool
- Cocteau, Jean - Diary of an Unknown - Quotes
- Cocteau, Jean - Opium the Diary of his cure - Death
- Codex Azcatitlan - Aztecs and Mexica - Dismemberment
- Copan - Mayan - Stela B
- Crowley - 0 The Fool
- Crowley - 01 The Magician [or Magus]
- Crowley - 02 High Priestess
- Crowley - 03 The Empress
- Crowley - 04 The Emperor
- Crowley - 06 The Lovers
- Crowley - 13 Death
- Crowley - 15 The Devil
- Daniel Mackie - Red Pill and Blue Pill
- David-Neel, Alexandra - Karma and reincarnation - from Immortality and Reincarnation
- Dickinson, Emily - Of Paradise’s existence
- Duchamp, Marcel - Door as a substitute for two doors
- Dürer, Albrecht - Symbolism - Knight, Death, and the Devil
- Dürer, Albrecht - Symbolism - The sea wonders
- Dürer, Albrecht - Symbolism - Themis and the Joker
- Eleanor C Merry – The Flaming Door - The cult of Hathor
- Electrocuted in a peanut field
- Eliphas Levi and Mudvayne
- Euripides - The Bacchae and the fates
- Father Bernabe Cobo - Inca Religion and Customs - Head binding and ear plugs
- Gentling the Bull – 03 Finding the Bull
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Bull and Twin horns
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Three Tunnels
- Indus valley - Harappa - 04 Seals and script
- Indus valley - Mehrgarh
- Indus valley - Mohenjo-Daro - 07 The Pashupati Seal
- Intelligences - ELEMENTS EARTH MOTHER Ninhursag
- Intelligences - ELEMENTS Nergal and Ereshkigal
- Jacques Cambry - Voyage dans le Finistère - A Celtic legend
- Jason and Medea with a living fleece
- Jean Noblet - 00 [and Jean Dodal, Nicolas Conver] The Fool
- Jean Noblet - 15 [and Hebreo and Payen] The Devil
- Kakuzo, Okakura - The Book of Tea - The Creation
- Knight, Dame Laura – Circus – 03
- Lagash
- Lethbridge, T C - ESP Beyond Time and Distance – The Harmonics of the cones
- Levi-Strauss, Claude - Misc. quote
- Little Jack Horner
- Lyall Watson - Snakes
- Mayan - False pregnancy in a man
- Mesopotamian - Means of achieving spiritual experience 07 Sex
- Michelangelo - 1508 Sistine Chapel - 11 Spandrels
- Michelangelo - 1516 Tomb of Pope Julius II - Moses
- Mircea Eliade - Patterns in Comparative religion - The snake as fertiliser of women
- Nerval, Gerard de - 01 La Reve et Vie
- Nonnus, Dionysiaca 6. 155 ff
- Norse - Heiðrún
- Norse - Lurs
- Norse - Staraya Ladoga
- Nuremberg Chronicle - Libyan satyr
- Ogotommeli - The Golden Ram and the Calabash
- Organisation of Pictish society – Roles - Knight
- Paul Devereux - The Anasazi culture
- Persepolis - And its sacred geography 03 Gate of All Nations
- Persepolis - And its sacred geography 06 Bull capitals and columns
- Pillar of the Boatmen
- Pliny – On the sacred role of mistletoe to Druids
- Popol Vuh Museum - Guatemala city - 'Priest'
- Popol Vuh Museum - Guatemala city - Sorceror
- Qu’ran - Judgement Day; The Scroll of Deeds, Destiny and the Final Separation
- Rabbi Joshua ben Nehemiah - Agape
- Reichel-Dolmatoff – The Tukana Indians - The Sun's Penis
- Revelations 09
- Rider-Waite - 02 High Priestess
- Rider-Waite - 15 The Devil
- Rops, Felicien - Dans les coulisses
- Rops, Félicien - L'Enlèvement 1882
- Rops, Felicien - l'initiation sentimentale
- Rops, Felicien - The Sacrifice
- Rosary of the Philosophers - 10 The Union
- Rosary of the Philosophers - 17 Demonstration of Perfection
- Rubens - Drunken Silenus
- Rubens - The drunken Hercules
- Schuré - The Great Initiates – Isis and Osiris
- Schwabe, Carlos - Faun
- Schwabe, Carlos - Les Fleurs du Mal -Poppy
- Segantini - Frühmesse
- Seven Ages of Man - Thomas Keightley et al - Spiritual capabilities
- Shaivism - Concepts and symbols - Bull
- Sheridan, Clare –The Terrifying power of the Horns
- Siegrid Knecht 1971 – Rauchen und Rauchern in Nepal
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 14 - Farms, gates and cows
- Surdas - Fatephur Sikri manuscript - NPS 56
- Swami Swatmaram – Hatha Yoga Pradipika
- Symbolism - Korean mystic shamanism – Costume: Cones and horns
- Symbolism - Korean mystic shamanism – Costume: Crown
- Symbols – Picts – Constellation - Twin horns [Aries]
- Taq Bostan 02
- Tepe Marlik 01
- The Ancestors - Star Carr, Yorkshire, UK
- The Book of Taliesin - Kanu y Med - Llyfr Taliesin XIX
- The Dorset Ooser mask
- The Ishavasya Upanishad with Shankara’s Commentary 04
- The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine - Key 12
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 04 - 2 The Walrus and the Carpenter
- Tikal - Mayan - Stela 16
- Various symbolic objects - Lamassu
- Very Bizzare Trip - Mushrooms by Faust
- Von Stuck, Franz - 1889 Angel with the Flaming Sword
- War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness – 03 1 The trumpets
- Waterhouse, John William - After the Dance
- Waterhouse, John William - Ophelia
- Xam bushmen - The sun's penis
- Zohar - II 042b – Ocean and sea and the Abyss
- Zoroastrian - Symbols and concepts - Twin horns
- Zoroastrian - Symbols and concepts - Twin horns [sheep and goats]