London’s Medieval gates, including Saxon and Norman renovations (after Wikipedia. Typological labels and axial grid by ED Furter).
London’s last permanent wall probably expressed the same subconscious structuralist orientation as the stoneprint among London buildings. During the Renaissance the stoneprint among buildings doubled in diameter, and quadrupled in surface. The wall was demolished and gates became obsolete. London’s stoneprint retained its orientation (as Rome, Paris and other cities did), but some buildings and some gates acquired new identities, and the polar points moved south-westward, first to Temple Ave (see below), then to the Thames south bank corner. London’s Medieval gates
London’s Medieval gates, including Saxon and Norman renovations (after Wikipedia. Typology and axial grid by ED Furter).
Type label; Medieval gate (noting archetypal features):
1 Bjuilder or Taurus; Tower (tower, cluster, maze) Postern Gate, pedestrian bend (twisted).
3 Queen or Aries; Billingsgate, of Belin, his head buried here (sacrifice), at the river port (pool).
4 King or Pisces; Ebgate. 4p Gal.S.Pole; Dowgate, at Mill Brook mouth (juncture, spout).
5 Priest or Aquarius; Queenhithe (water).
6 Exile or Capricornus; Blackfriars corner, far from the centre (egress).
7 Child or Sagittarius; Ludgate.
8 Healer or Scorpius; Newgate.
10 Teacher or Libra; Aldersgate (council).
11 Womb or Virgo; Wood Str? No gate (womb /interior). 11p Gal.Pole: Cripplegate, low lintel.
12 Heart or Leo; Moorgate.
13 Heart or Leo; Mill Brook stream (water-work), under the wall (inversion).
14 Mixer or Cancer; Bishopsgate.
15 Maker or Gemini; Aldgate.
The ecliptic pole is near Watling Str /Bread Str (juncutre). The celestial pole may be on Mill Brook at Lombard Str (juncture), and the celestial south pole on Friday Str. Both cardinal directions indicate ‘summer’ in Gemini, thus ‘spring’ and the cultural time-frame in Age Pisces, perhaps confirmed by the central riverfront position of Ebgate.
The general theme among these gates are type 11p ‘Galactic Pole’, dry centre of a galactic ‘river’.
Schematic map of London’s earlier Roman gates (after Gilbert 2000. Typology and axial grid by ED Furter).
London’s Roman gates
Type labels; Gate (noting archetypal features):
2 Builder or Taurus; Tower Hill (tower) keep and stockade (bovid).
2c Basket; Eastern corner.
3 Queen or Aries; Belin’s Gate and head (sacrifice).
4 King or Pisces; St Magnus (king), and Roman bridge.
5 Priest or Aquarius; ?
6 Exile or Capricornus; Palace or a villa (camp), near the centre (ingress).
7 Child or Sagittarius; ? (unfolding). 7g Gal.Centre: St Martin at Fleet River (water, juncture).
9 Healer or Scorpius; Bailey.
9c Basket Lid; Newgate and prison (10 law enforcement).
10 Teacher or Libra; Aldersgate (council), at Barracks (guard).
11 Womb or Virgo; Barracks (interior), kitchen (wheat).
13 Heart or Leo; No gate (interior).
14 Mixer or Cancer; Bishopsgate.
15 Maker or Gemini; Aldgate; and Forum (order, face, sceptre). 15g Gal.Gate; Pedestrian gate?
Polar markers are uncertain.
London’s civil war forts
Citizens worked hard as volunteers to first erect redoubts, then a large chain of forts, banks and dykes in the Civil War in 1643. Royal forces did not attack London afterward, and internal opposition was suppressed by democratic terror. Parliament soon demolished the forts in 1647. A conjectural map of 1739 and a modern survey demonstrate that artworks and plans are different media using the same spatial ‘grammar’.
Conjectural but inaccurate map of London’s Civil War defences (after George Vertue, 1739. Typology and axial grid by ED Furter).Modern survey of London’s Civil War forts (after Vauban. Typology and axial grid by ED Furter).
Typology in the modern survey of London’s civil war defences (map after Vauban, noting differences in the survey by Vertue, on Fortified Places):
1 Builder or Taurus; Wapping Fort, at the later Millbank Prison (maze); On the same axis as the Tower; outer front for the Tower, seat of power (build, sack) and records (book).
2 Builder or Taurus; Redriff or Rotherhithe Fort.
2c Basket; Bermondsey Church Fort.
3 Queen or Aries; Kent Str Fort.
4 King or Pisces; Newington or Blackman Str Fort, at Elephant & Castle, ferrier (furnace). 4p Gal.S.Pole; St George’s Fields Fort (juncture. 4 field).
5a Priest or Aquarius; Vauxhall Fort (assembly), land and water forces (hyperactive, water).
5b Priest or Aquarius; Tothill Fort (assembly, mound of 12 opposite).
6 Exile or Capricornus; Milkfield Fort, far out (egress).
7 Child or Sagittarius; Goring House Fort. 7g Gal.Centre: Oliver’s Mount (juncture) or Sergeant’s Fort. [Another survey found a western corner 7g at Hyde Park Fort].
8 Healer or Scorpius; Banqueting Fort.
9 Healer or Scorpius; St Giles Fort.
9c Basket Lid; Southampton Fort.
10 Teacher or Libra; Lincoln’s Inn Fields? (interior, more typical of 11).
11 Womb; Virgo; Holborn? (interior from Pinder Of Wakefield Fort); or Royal Fort (one of only two exterior forts, usually one of two interior forts). 11p Galactic Pole: St John Str or Waterfield Fort (12 water-work), near Royal redoubt (juncture). [Another survey indicates type 12 Leo here].
12 Heart or Leo; Interior (heart) from Mount Mill Fort. [Another survey reveals this fort as type 13].
13 Heart or Leo; Hoxton Fort, which another survey places interior (heart). [Another survey reveals 13c here].
13c Basket Head; Shoreditch Church Fort.
14 Mixer or Cancer; Brick Lane Fort.
15 Maker or Gemini; Whitechapel Mount Fort, artificial hill (churn); and Mile End redoubt (doubled).
The ecliptic pole is near Talus Str (unmarked). [Another survey places the axial centre near Temple Church]. The celestial poles are uncertain.
The general theme among the Civil War defences includes type 11p Galactic Pole, of junctures and gestation, also of the short-lived Republic.
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The index indicates the broad scope and depth of 28 years of research reported in Stoneprint. Each relevant craft and science is placed in context. Natural expressions are compared to cultural expressions. Each building site is illustrated by a map, and at least two pages of detailed structural analysis.
Introduction
2 Architecture reveals our subconscious building code
3 The Five levels of structure in cultural media
3 The sixteen archetypes, in sequence
4 The axial grid of focal points
6 The four borderline types
7 The two galactic gates or cross-points
7 The polar clock of Ages
8 The six polar points
9 Structural analysis example of a site sketch plan
The cultural context of the human code
11 Alchemy: Crafts reveal chemistry
13 Chemistry reveals biology
15 Kabalah: Natural philosophy correspondences
17 Poetry: Blake’s London- Jerusalem- Golgonooza
21 Poetry: Blake’s Tyger describes expression
22 Poetry: The Stoneprint rhyme
24 Astrology: Calendars reveal divination
27 Cosmology: Direction is everywhere
The scientific context of the human code
31 Art History: Perception reveals gestalt
37 Archaeology: The World Archives challenge
42 Anthropology: Artefacts reveal structure
47 Popular Anthropology: Who did it?
52 Psychology: Behaviour reveals archetype
57 Philosophy: The universe reveals archetype
60 Communication Science: Structure is the message
63 Sociology: Behaviour reveals our self-image
66 Science and esoterica: our split consciousness
70 Why I wrote Stoneprint
73 [Chapter A] Natural elementary maps
74 The periodic table reveals atomic structure
80 Nuclear particles reveal atomic polar structure
81 Compounds confirm the axial pairs
82 Constellations chart our cosmos and myth
84 Astronomical poles in our cosmos
86 A crop circle solar system implies two grids
92 Earth imprints a motto: ‘I oppose artifice’
94 Trails of architecture in two crop circles
95 Numbers have character
96 Mars ‘face’ geology invites human gestalt
99 [Chapter B] Natural body maps
100 Our hands carry the imprint
102 Our eyes are windows to the body and structure
104 Our minds carry the imprint
106 Dental reflexology: the ‘boneprint’ in our cave
111 Our outer ear lobe reflex map
112 Our inner ear reflex map
113 Eye, palm, teeth, ear and organ map
114 Limb joints mark six poles
115 [Chapter C] Natural culture maps
116 Piacenza bronze liver double circle of gods
120 The sixth layer of culture is style conformity
121 Three sets of Etruscan gods integrated
121 Planets express poles and gates, not types
122 Gods or liver maps, which came first?
123 Piacenza city and its walls are cultural stoneprints
125 [Chapter D] Culture maps
126 The Maikop silver bowl paradise
128 Paradise, Fall, and Babel in a nutshell
129 Mapungubwe’s gold foil oracle reconstructed
130 A Venda divination bowl
132 An Italian Goose game board
134 Pedra Pintada engraving oval, and pentagons
138 The Bulgarian Karanovo tablet answers questions
139 [Chapter E] Ice Age sites
140 Turkey: Gobekli Tepe house C, polar boars
147 Turkey: Gobekli Tepe house D, type 14
150 Turkey: Gobekli Tepe house B, type 2
152 Turkey: Gobekli Tepe house A, type 3
154 Turkey: Gobekli Tepe excavation and radar maps
156 Turkey: Gobekli Tepe pillar D43, a culture portrait
158 Turkey: Gobekli Tepe grey pillar
159 Babylonia: Inana huts, Nevali Cori kiva, Kurdish huts
160 Turkey: Gobekli Tepe site perspective
161 China: An Iron Age T-shaped silk drape
162 A Greek healing pillar, and Shinto dressed pillars
163 Spain: Malta’s Mnajdra double stoneprint
164 Spain: Malta’s Gigantija double stoneprint
167 Spain: Hal Saflieni’s underground stoneprint
168 Scotland: Skara Brae plans
169 Scotland: Jarlshof wheelhouses and recycling
170 Spain: A Menorcan taula reconstruction puzzle
171 [Chapter F] Early civil sites in Sumeria
172 Babylonia was a stoneprint in clay brick
174 Babylon city, a vortex of dispersion
176 Two mythical gates
177 King-priest Ur Nanshe builds a temple
178 He built sixteen shrines
179 His crafts reveal subconscious method
180 He casts the circle of eternity, or polar ring
181 He was a visionary like Solomon
182 He works magic: as below, so above
184 He was an inspired architect, like Hiram of Tyre
185 He did not understand the building plan
188 He taxed the clans for construction
190 His allies and contractors
191 He surveys eight rooms, and erects eight doors
193 He set up six slabs as poles
194 An, Enlil, Enki: three equators to survey the site
195 Assyria: T-pillars and Y-tents in an army camp
296 Egypt: Narmer’s camp, and a school camp
197 [Chapter G] Early civil sites in Egypt
298 Sakkara, first royal campus, and a stepped pyramid
200 Teti’s pyramids form a stoneprint in Sakkara
201 Giza pyramid field stoneprint
204 Giza pyramid field is also a polar map
206 Kings Valley tombs are underground stoneprints
212 Queens Valley entrances lost and found
214 A ‘Syrian’ queen in a womb among wombs
216 Edfu temple is a double churn
218 Senmut’s ceiling stoneprint is half zodiac, half duat
220 Duats and decans are arch mutators
221 [Chapter H] Civil outpost sites
222 Nubia: Meroe pyramids speak with their doors
224 Egypt: Nabta Playa slab field counts four Ages
226 Egypt: Hawara labyrinth in Kircher’s Gnostic vision
228 Nubia: The cornucopia of minister Huy
230 Palestine: Jerusalem temple mount hybrid
233 Patriarchs, pharaohs, and kings
234 Palestine: Jerusalem, womb of three religions
236 Judea: Masada, a military stoneprint
238 Turkey: Nemrut hill, crossroad of Persians and Greeks
242 Australia: Elivna rock pavement engraving
244 Ethiopia: Axum is an ark of spiritual mysteries
247 Ethiopia: Lalibela temple field of bedrock ‘hearts’
249 Ethiopia: Lalibela’s Mary church; womb in a womb
250 Ethiopia: A reverse rock imprint spells ‘Rotas’
251 [Chapter J] Prehistoric European sites
252 Ireland: Drombeg house, a cosy double stoneprint
254 England: Avebury and Silbury landscape
256 England: Stonehenge counted three ages
263 England: Damerham circles in radar scan
264 England: Stonehenge landscape radar scan
266 England: Stanton Moor landscape; boulders and ‘ladies’
268 Greece: Phaistos palace, the other Greek labyrinth
270 Germany: Magdalenburg mound graves
273 Scotland: Stennes stone circle
274 Scotland: Cochno stone concentric engravings
275 [Chapter K] African sites
276 Zimbabwe: Great Zimbabwe, landscape with a womb
278 Zimbabwe: Great Zimbabwe queen’s yard with a womb
280 A kudurru boundary stone calendar spring bird
281 Egypt: Dendera zodiac summer bird
282 Zimbabwe: Nhunguza and Penhalonga metallurgy floors
283 South Africa: San Bushman painted stoneprints on rock
284 Mali: Nature and culture on a Dogon mud wall
286 South Africa: Lydenburg concentric engravings boulder
287 [Chapter L] Eastern sites
288 India: Buddhist wheel of life landscape panorama
289 India: Sanchi temple gate pagoda engraving
292 Nepal: Kathmandu palace square temple complex
294 China: Beijing Temple of Heaven park, an Aquarian cosmos
295 China: Choukungmu pyramid fields need more research
296 Japan: Nara Basin Horyuji temple, galactic manifestation
297 Japan: Todai temple, a living site
298 Japan: Himeji, Shirasagi-jo temple, White Heron nests
299 [Chapter M] Mexican sites
300 Izapa pyramid field and stelae, new world, same stoneprint
302 Izapa cacao tree ritual stele, a third layer of structure
304 La Venta pyramid field, spire eyes, platform womb
306 Monte Alban double stoneprint works with the landscape
309 Coba, a triple Stoneprint with interlocking ‘galaxy’
310 Uxmal was contested by a witch, a dwarf, and a king
312 Chichen Itza has temples to planets, and a stoneprint
314 Chichen Itza village scene, a busy day
315 Teotihuacan mountain stream, and rain woman mural
316 Teotihuacan pyramid avenue, Leo sun, Virgo moon
318 El Tajin pyramid field, double thunder
320 Palenque lid cosmic tree and double stoneprint
322 Palenque pyramid field, chaos among order
323 [Chapter N] North and South American sites
324 Peru: Machu Picchu, Mayan capital in the clouds
326 Bolivia: Tiahuanaco island’s Sun Gate is the sun type
328 Chile: Atacama geoglyphs with Aquarian tailcoats
330 Peru: Nazca plain geoglyphs express ecological structure
332 Peru: Cuzco’s Coricancha constellations reveal an update
335 USA: California’s Painted Rock, theatre of time
340 USA: Lower Colorado River geoglyphs has a calendar clock
342 USA: Hopi kiva 5mT2, and its village, hinge on a womb
344 USA: Colorado’s Mystery Hill metallurgy plant or tech school
346 USA: Crow Canyon kivas Block 100 has two missing features
347 [Chapter P] Historic Western sites
348 Italy: Rome, eternal city with an Age update
350 Italy: Rome’s gates and bridges are eloquent
352 Italy: Rome’s Capitol Forum, contested but constant
354 Italy: Rome’s Quirinal forums for spiritual order
356 Italy: Rome’s Vatican City, a stoneprint inside type Aries
360 Italy: Brescia has Mark’s lion, Mary’s womb, John’s bull
362 Turkey: Ephesus, former city of Amazons and Artemis
363 Icons: Serapis and Ophiotaurus, half-monsters
366 Spain: Santiago de Compostella, of a son of thunder
367 Spain: St James and Hercules, hybrid planetary characters
370 Canary Islands: Las Palmas governor’s house facade
372 Canada: Quebec, Victorian ideals in stone
374 South Africa: Cape Town’s Dutch forts claimed a footprint
376 [Chapter Q] Structural analysis formats
376 Kinds of media in the 130 examples
376 Commission impossible: design a stoneprint site
377 Emblems, icons, constellations and Tarot trumps
382 [Appendices]
382 How to find the subconscious structure on a site plan
382 The structural analysis format
384 About the author
385 Sources and references
Edmond Furter; Mindprint, the subconscious art code, covers back and front. 2014, Lulu.com
In artefacts and artworks, where archaeo astronomers see ancient star maps, archaeologists see cultural traditions, and anthropologists see initiation secrets, appear a standard axial grid of archetypes, always in the same sequence.
[UPDATE 2016: Mindprint demonstrated our individual expression of archetype in art. The book laid the foundation for revealing our innate, subconscious, collective expression of archetypal structure, in buildings, villages, temples complexes, pyramid fields, geoglyphs and cities. Our collective subconscious is revealed in Stoneprint, with 400 pages and 130 illustrations, placing subconscious behaviour in the context of five sciences and several cultural crafts. Visit www.stoneprint.wordpress.com for extracts from this important new book.]
The subconscious art code or human imprint also appears in our eye, hand and body reflexology points, and in cosmology. Constellations are only myth maps, but myth, and therefore constellations, also bear the imprint of the structure of our perception.
All inspired artists, in the Stone, Ice, Bronze and Iron Ages; Babylonians, Egyptians, Chinese, Celts, Mayans, Vikings and moderns, subconsciously express mindprint, our eternal artefact.
The core content of art, myth and culture around the world is identical. Beneath thin layers of flamboyant styling and learning lies a surprisingly standard structure, beyond the conscious control of artists, mystery schools or secret societies.
All inspired artworks containing more than ten figures express a standard, involuntary sequence of types. Artists are not aware that their eye -hand -mind co-ordination expresses a universal structure.
Each figure type is characterised by one or two of its optional attributes and by its relative position. The types are spaced as paired opposites around an irregular ellipse, and precisely anchored to a standard axial structure, hinged on a geometric centre with tri-polar elements.
The structure emerging in the 200 illustrations and in the statistical analysis, is a visual grammar or art code, never before described in art history, archaeology, psychology, esoterica or popular crafts. The book is written as popular archaeology, but it has several implications for academic research.
Archetypes could be labelled in mythical, seasonal or astrological terms, yet none of these sets are origins of archetype. All are equally partial and imperfect expressions of pre-existent, universal structure.
The underlying structure of nature, culture and perception is largely subconscious, not fully verbalised by artists or viewers. Now these subconscious meanings are rendered partially conscious, and accessible by identifying relevant features, and thus types, and by using a list of the average frequencies of occurrences of the features of typology, and using the axial grid structure.
The axial geometric structure in the positioning of the eyes of the sequence of figures is made visible by drawing a set of lines that always cross in one point. This structure is visually disguised by some radial distortion (a sunburst shape); variety of subject and style; and two standard deviations, to a heart as a kind of spiritual eye, and to a womb as a kind of unborn eye.
Visual expression arises from nature, reflexology, and the collective subconscious. Learning, borrowing and idiosyncratic features do not affect the options, nor their average frequencies. The structure of perception and expression, or archetype, is inherent in all forms of figurative arts and crafts, including engravings, murals, frescoes, spiritual, religious, political and portable artefacts, professional and amateur art; and building sites (see http://www.stoneprintjournal.blog). Mindprint in ‘story’ paintings on buffalo skin are among the many indications that archetypal structure also enables myth, legend, perception, and to some extent, events.
The ‘readable’ elements in visual expression reveal a similar structure in myth, literature, cosmology, calendric cycles and nature, confirming the role of what philosophy and psychology describe as archetype.
Myth likewise uses characters differentiated by stock attributes, actions, motivations and episodes, and also expresses natural, social and cultural structure.
Art is less constrained by conscious cognitive processes than myth, which is bound by verbal, acoustic and dramatic grammar. Visual art is more direct, more impulsive, more compulsive to artists and viewers, more layered, and closer to inspiration.
The subconscious imprint, referred to as mindprint, tupos (imprint), art code, human subtext, Furter grid or archetypal art code, is predictive and testable. Practical proof of the persistence and prevalence of mindprint in art is illustrated in 200 of the 400 artworks and rock art works listed in the Index (some of the further 600 demonstrations are posted on this site, and the three related sites).
Major, testable, conceptual, as well as minor attributes of types, each with their average occurrences, invariably marked by the standard axial grid, are listed in Mindprint (2014, Lulu.com), in the Introduction and in the Statistical test chapter.
Type 5 Priest or Aquarius, for example, is varicoloured (44%), horizontal (30%), in active posture (31%), and among the four large chracters (24%) on average in all artworks [the list of known features, and known average frequencies, was extended by new discoveries in Stoneprint, and in editions of Stoneprint Journal, in 2018, and 2019; see extracts on http://www.stoneprintjournal.wordpress.com].
Type 10 Teacher or Libra has an arm or arms in V- or W-shape (53%) and holds a staff (34%) on average in all artworks.
Based on overwhelming statistical and geometric evidence of the collective, universal, subconscious sequence of optional attributes in inspired art, and of the conceptual relationships between the optional elements of each type, the tables of myths, icons, constellations and concepts in this study are proven.
They describe the standard structure of visual expression, as an involuntary art code arising from subconscious inspiration.
Additional variant expressions of each type are also considered, for example type 15 Maker or Gemini as a rope (33%) and/or bag (21%), and/or creator (such as Ptah), and/or smiting (16%), and/or doubled as in the concept of Gemini (8%) [however twins is a feature of type 4 King or Pisces], and/or canine, and/or with a hip wound, and/or in a boat shrine (of minor percentages). Identification of types rises above 90% if these variants (discussed in the Attributes section, Tables and captions) are considered together.
(Excerpt from the Introduction to Mindprint, the subconscious art code, by Edmond Furter, 2014, Lulu.com, 266 pages; 100 pages of context and explanation, 200 illustrations. The book is on mail order from Lulu in the USA at $29 plus $8 postage ($37, about R370), and at presentations in South Africa at R250. Order directly from Lulu, not from other websites that may add their costs to the price.
Senmut astronomical ceiling with mindprint analysis added (Furter 2015).
Here are some examples of structural art analysis using mindprint; a set of sixteen types with their frequent attributes; in their standard sequence; with the eyes of typological figures on an axial grid. All art containing more than eleven characters express this structure, without the conscious knowledge of artists.
Some examples here respond to some comments and queries on posts on http://www.edmondfurter.wordpress.com and on http://www.mindprintart.wordpress.com, and on articles and comments on grahamhancock.com (author of the month September 2015), and on articles in the anthropology magazine Expression (editions 9 and 10, published by Atelier Etno).
Egyptian afterlife
A typical Egyptian afterlife map. Mindprint labelling and axial grid added by Edmond Furter.
An example of the standard typological sequence and geometric structure, present in all art of all cultures), in a seasonal, clockwise direction, in formal Egyptian funerary art. Type 7g Galactic Centre between types 7 and 8, here both as hieroglyphic figures, is a canal vortex (see hieroglyphs as figures, also in Babylonian and in Mexican art).
A sand mound formed by water expresses the idea of becoming in Egyptian theology. Giza waterworks, including the Sphinx reservoir (see Robert Temple’s book on the Sphinx) and lower shafts (see Edward Malkowski on gravity pumps) incidentally express the concept of the galactic centre and four galactic corners. Many Egyptian sites had symbolic water features, as in Peru, India, and other parts of the far east.
The sun-in-horizon glyphs at Leo and Cancer, express midsummer, the birds express the celestial pole near Ursa Minor, and their ponds may express summer, perhaps a rare incidence of conscious use of some calendric parts of the subconscious structure of cultural expression. The pegs at Cancer may incidentally express solstice or precession calibrators. Some elements in afterlife scenes, as in duat hour scenes, polar groups, decanal groups, and tree of life groups, are traditional, some are updated, and some are re-arranged by the individual artist. Stock artworks were seldom if ever copied by mechanical means, yet beneath their apparent differences, and beneath their apparent stock elements, is a rigorously identical set of types, in standard sequence, with their eyes on a standard axial grid, and some limb joints in standard polar positions.
The galactic poles are both on the edges or ‘elbow’ banks of akhet horizon hieroglyphs, representing desert hills in a cross-section of the Nile valley. A celestial polar marker on the elbow of an extra, polar type 15 Maker or Gemini, tags the inspiration as Age Aries-Pisces, but his hand tags the earlier Age Aries, and the foot of a benben bird on an obelisk provides for the future Age Aquarius. Artists are not conscious of most of the aspects of the detailed iconographic hologram that they express.
Bull foreleg as Ursa Minor and celestial pole is a semi-conscious symbol
Senmut astronomical ceiling with mindprint analysis added (Furter 2015).
The celestial pole star in the Senmut ceiling is at the hoof of a severed bull foreleg, or ‘poing’ stick skewering some dots, as the Ursa Minor tail, calibrator of recent polar positions. Yet this is not an feat of astronomy, but a feat of semi-conscious structural expression.
The bull leg is speared by an extra type 10 Teacher or Libra, decan Bootes, also with his arms raised. His spear is part of the Ursa Major severed bull foreleg (related to the former spring bull, since it calibrated the precession of the celestial pole, and thus of the summer sun, at the time). The two forelegs are conflated in myth and art, though usually separate constellations.
The polar decan behind the bull leg is a nominal type 15 Maker or Gemini, which is often the rope puller, re-creator, smiter, and ancestor. Gods are not enthroned on the poles, however some polar attributes are transferred to the Taweret group in the lower register, which doubles as the seasonal constellations 14 Mixer or Cancer (eye of crocodile on Taweret’s back); 12/13 Heart or Leo (Taweret’s heart, see the note on ‘eyes’ or lucida below); 11 Womb or Virgo (unseen eye in Taweret’s pregnant womb); 10 Teacher or Libra (eye of a duplicate Bootes with his arms up); 8/9 Healer or Scorpius (eye of a rampant crocodile); 7 Child or Sagittarius (eye of a young crocodile curled up).
The Senmut ceiling has a constellation and seasonal cycle split into two. On the upper register appears the rest of the ecliptic (zodiac) constellations (not ‘signs’, which the decans partly are, hence their perpetual confusion). Some ambiguity here due to some extreme variants in typology, indicate that the upper register may have been designed for the other side-wall of a barrel vault, and was thus inverted and stands in retro sequence.
However they continue the seasonal sequence; Capricornus (eye of a crane); Aquarius (eye of a turtle); Pisces (eye of a boatman); Aries (eye of a hieroglyph, a weak point in the visual expression, however it’s determinative is one star, common for delta Arietis in several decanal calendars); Taurus Perseus (eye of a backwards-looking boatman, identified by seven stars as standing on the Pleiades, and by three stars as adjacent to Orion); Gemini (star on an axe-shape, perhaps Canis Sirius).
Some of the decanal figures, and some hieroglyphs, confirm the identifications.
The axial centre confirms the subconscious spacing (I could not find any reference to any artist or school being aware of the mindprint structure in art).
The polar configuration is not marked by ‘gods’ or archetypal principles, but by structural features, usually limb joints; the galactic pole is on Taweret’s jaw (a frequent polar marker), the galactic south pole is on Pisces’ foot. The moving celestial pole was on Dinwiddie’s rear foot, moved to his front foot, as confirmed by his vertical plane, the other figures’ horizontal plane. The celestial south pole was on his elbow, moved to his front shoulder.
The celestial poles, and thus solstices, here lie in the wide gap between Cancer and Gemini, indicating a broadly Age Aries framework. In subconscious anticipation of moving closer to Age Pisces, and thus to a Gemini pole and summer, the bull foreleg hoof offers a (formerly forthcoming) limb joint marker, opposite Dinwiddie’s hips as a limb joint marker for the celestial south pole.
Art, myth, ritual, and crafts like astrology, all derive from archetype. Culture is sustained and standardised by subconscious expression. I did not design archetype, or this quirky cultural expression of archetypal structure. I merely identify and demonstrate this expression.
Astronomical figures are not primarily zodiac figures, since they are not conventionalised. However their ranges of attributes, their sequence, and their relative positioning are highly standardised, forming a mindprint (Edmond Furter; Mindprint, 2015, lulu.com). Mindprint is not a zodiac, it appears in all cultural media, in all cultures and eras, has never been consciously recognised, and does not evolve.
Some zodiacs or star maps subconsciously express mindprint, while motivated by a mixture of calendric, charting, astronomical, mythical, theological, political, decorative, and other conscious aims.
The decans in the lower register, all with red spheres on their heads, perhaps indicating lunar stations (hours), do not stand for much else, as usual. One of the few decans with blank spheres on their heads, doubles as a second Cancer (its eye is on the same axis as the Cancer crocodile’s eye).
The Senmut types, as in all artworks, confirm one another in five ways;
[] by features (eg raised arms is typical of type 10 Teacher Libra, etc, see the statistics in other posts);
[] and in sequence (eg type 10 Teacher Libra is between type 11 Womb or Virgo, and type 9 Healer or Scorpius);
[] and in axial spacing (eg type 10 is always opposite type 3);
[] and in the exact spacing of their eyes (type 10’s eye is opposite type 3’ eye, with two constant, standard exceptions to the ‘lucida’; type 12/13 Heart or Leo is spaced by his heart in 85% or artworks, and type 11 Womb or Virgo is spaced by her womb 87% of artworks);
[] and in the polar structure, based on limb joints and the horizontal or vertical plane.
[UPDATE 2019: Here is the set of labels used to mark typology characters in artworks or building sites, using generic functions instead of myths, and numbering the c-types to enable the Sort function to place them correctly in the sequence. Pairs of opposites that always appear on the same axis, are given above/below one another;
1Builder 2Builder 2cBasket 3Queen 4King 4p
8Healer 9Healer 9cLid 10Teacher 11Womb 11p
5aPriest 5bPriest 5cTail 6Exile 7Child 7g
12Heart 13 Heart 13cHead 14Mixer 15Maker 15g
cp csp ? ?
I tested the Senmut ceiling for the book Stoneprint (initially in response to two queries); for clearly demonstrating that traditional astronomical programmes, commissions, and artists, concentrate on consciously political and theological intentions, and on some semi-conscious symbolic conventions.
Yet the same work clearly expresses the universal structure of culture, perception, and nature, using the same predictive and testable criteria as in the book, and in the article. Mindprint analysis of highly detailed cosmological features, reveals how the assumed unique art for or by the talented commoner social climber Senmut, under queen Hatshepshut, and the assumed unique Egyptian culture, repeats the same tupos (seal or imprint) as the art of all cultures and all ages.
Art demonstrates that the origin of culture is archetypal, not astronomical, astrological, mythical, religious, political, calendric, decorative, incidental, etc. All cultural media play some roles in mutating expressions and styles, but the core content is as hardy as the periodic table of chemistry, of DNA.
Like DNA, even slight changes in some attributes, in sequence, or in spatial positioning of ‘chromosomes or acids’ would be fatal. There are other Egyptian ceiling examples in Mindprint on p175 (Seti 1, and Ramses 6); Egyptian art on pp 204, 205, 210, 215, 217; Egyptian palettes on pp 170, 184; and political murals on p166 etc, Egyptian jewellery on p224, 227.
All complex artworks (containing eleven or more figures, or characters) express the complexities of natural structure in surprisingly minimalistic and ‘innovative’ ways, beyond the conscious capacities of the artists. The same goes for each of the other 200 artworks in the book, and about 543 tested since, from all the known cultures in and before history (see some examples in my article at Graham Hancock’s website, under Author of the Month September 2015, and some discussion in the context of archaeo astronomy).
The same goes for a pseudo-Egyptian painting by an amateur South African artist (Mindprint p189). Artists do not have to be ancient, or Egyptian, or have big and commodified names (many of whom feature in the book), to express archetypal structure in Egyptian style, or in any style.
Styling is pseudo culture. Art, language, ritual and all of culture, is first, foremost, and in the final analysis, structure, clothed and disguised in conformist fads.
I have avoided including zodiac artworks in the book, to escape the apparently ‘logical, common sense’, but false impression that mindprint may be ‘based on the zodiac’. The opposite is true; nature, seasons, ritual, myth, art, emblems, zodiacs, crafts, such as astrology or psychology, and everything cultural, expresses archetypal structure.
None of these media derive from any other, or require the pre-existence of any other, although some cultural media sometimes illustrate the conventions of other cultural media at a conscious level. However all cultural media are subconsciously standardised, and sustained, by compulsive structural expression. We are structural creatures.
Chauvet antelopes, horses, and bovids (Patrick Aventurier /Getty. Mindprint labels and axial grid by Edmond Furter). The mental capacity, behaviour, and cultural repertoire at the time was identical to modern humans, despite lacking the population numbers to specialise or civilse in villages.
Chauvet antelopes, horses, and bovids (photo after Patrick Aventurier /Getty. Mindprint labels and axial grid by Edmond Furter). The mental capacity, behaviour, and cultural repertoire at the time was identical to modern humans, despite lacking the population numbers to specialise, or civilse in villages.
Application of the structural analysis method named mindprint, published in 2014, reveals the same core content in Ice Age cave art, as in hundreds of examples from every other era, place, and culture in the world. (An introduction to the book follows below some recently added posts).
The latest example of the mindprint structure in a Chauvet cave charcoal panel in France, indicates the same repertoire of perception and cultural expression as in various kinds of art and artefacts, from the Younger Dryas ‘thaw’ at Gobekli Tepe, to Babylonian, Egyptian, European, Indian, Chinese, Australian, African and American art.
Two other Chauvet panels (see below) were earlier found to express a partly interlocking double imprint (Furter 2014; Mindprint p154 and p155, Lulu.com). In all artworks containing eleven or more characters, each one expresses one of the attributes of a type; always in the same sequence; always with their eyes on an axial grid; and always with some limb joints in the centre indicating the time-frame of the work. Artists then, and now, are not aware that they express the structure of perception.
Type labels, and Characters in a Chauvet cave artwork, in the usual peripheral sequence (noting archetypal features):
2 Builder or Taurus; An antelope (bovid, not counted here due to abundance), in a twisting posture (twisting)
2c Basket; Jumble of lines (weave)
3 Queen or Aries; An antelope
4 King or Pisces; Horse (equid) 4p Galactic south pole; Horse shoulder (limb joint)
5a Priest or Aquarius; An antler, large (large)
6 Exile or Capricornus; An antler, nearer the centre (ingress)
7 Chile or Sagittarius; ? (often an indistinct shape. Perhaps damaged).
9 Healer or Scorpius; Bovid, large (large)
10 Teacher or Libra; An antler
11 Womb or Virgo; An antler’s womb (womb) 11 Galactic pole; Hump (limb-joint)
13 Heart or Leo; An antelope heart (heart)
13c Basket Head; Tally marks (texture)
14 Mixer or Cancer; An antelope, far out (egress)
15 Maker or Gemini; An antelope 15g Gate; Chasm in the rock face and ‘landscape’.
The ecliptic pole or axial centre is on a horse hoof (limb joint). The celestial pole is on a horse knee (limb joint), on the vertical plane (orientation) of most of the figures (one of the pairs of edges of the polar triangles are often vertical or horizontal). These polar markers place the summer of the subconscious cosmic structure (which is not a star map) in Virgo-Leo, thus the spring, and the cultural inspiration, in Age Gemini-Taurus, about BC 6400. However the time-frame is usually the Age or transition preceding the era of the work, thus this work was probably made in Age Taurus, when autumn was in Scorpius, and winter in Aquarius (both here on corners of the ocular (eye-to-eye) outline. Age Taurus lasted 40 degrees of precession, twice as long as Age Aries, which lasted 20 degrees, due to its compact borders. Subconscious division of ages does not follow the 30-degree divisions of of zodiac months, although Age Pisces lasted the average, of 30 degrees, or about 2100 years.
All five layers of structural expression (attributes; sequence; ocular grid; polar structure; and relation to preceding or current Age), are subconscious to artists, architects, builders and members of any culture.
The general theme here is probably the season, depicted by moulting of neck hair, and contrary movement.
The stoneprint analysis score is….. about 54% [the scoring format has since been updated, see later posts]. Despite the lack of species diversity, and themes that only paleontologists could spot, this panel demonstrates more than half the features identified (Furter 2014; Mindprint p 84 -87). Additional features of subconscious expression may yet be isolated and tested.
Chauvet cave rhino double panel, left half (mindprint labels and axial grid by Edmond Furter).Chauvet rhino double panel, right half (mindprint labels and axial grid by Edmond Furter).
The presence of two other mindprints in Chauvet cave, and another in Lascaux cave (p150-151), and another in Niaux (p241), and another in Addaura (p240), and in Peche Merle, and relief carvings on two Gobekli Tepe pillars, confirms that pre-civilised cultures operated on the same principles of perception and expression as modern cultures do. The only differences between these ceilings, and cathedrals such as the Sistine Chapel ceiling, is in the scale, time, and budget afforded by empire.
Mindprint is present in all complex art, including modern art (see some of the 200 examples in the book, in other posts on this website, and on http://www.mindprintart.wordpress.com.
See an article on structural anthropology in the book WWW, Rock art When, Where, to Whom (2016. Atelier Etno).
See an article on http://www.grahamhancock.com under Author of the month, September 2015, on cultural structure.
A star map in northern hemispheric eclipto-centric projection (Skychart 3.0.1.6), with celestial poles precessed to 2016. Mythic constellation variants, mindprint labels and division meridians are added (Edmond Furter; Mindprint, 2014, p32).
Here are some of the 200 structural analyses of art, rock art, artefacts, and reflexology examples, from the book Mindprint (Edmond Furter 2014, Lulu.com); and some artworks sent to me by readers and web visitors.
Illustrations and tables identify typological characters, confirmed by their peripheral sequence, and the axial grid between their eyes, and the tri-polar structure in the centre, usually marked by some limb joints in specific places.
See examples of the standard multi-layerd mindprint structure, in artworks styled as ayahuasca art, and peyote or mescaline art, compared to some Lapp drum skin art, and some works by Salvador Dali, at http://www.mindprintart.wordpress.com.
That page demonstrates again that art does not ‘come from’ drugs, or trance, or constellations, or diffusion from any particular culture.
A star map in northern hemispheric eclipto-centric (earth orbit) projection (Skychart 3.0.1.6), with celestial poles precessed to 2016. Mythic constellation variants, mindprint labels and division meridians are added (Edmond Furter; Mindprint, 2014, p32).
The structure in cosmology
No observer could see this view of the sky, yet it reflects the structure of cosmic concepts as expressed in all complex artworks (and building sites, see Stoneprint 2016), of all cultures and Ages.
Ecliptic projection is the most holistic map of time and season to a flat surface, to which we instinctively add analogous natural and cultural attributes, thus re-expressing archetype on the stellar canvas.
Astronomy is not the origin of archetype, just as classes of natural order among species, human tabulation, opera and artworks, are all incomplete expressions of aspects of archetype. No expresssion, and no medium is ‘original’. Since myth and astrology are generally known, this study uses mythic and zodiac (ecliptic equator) labels (not ‘signs’), to demonstrate archetypal structure in art.
Constellations are here divided by the galactic cardinal (cross) structure, and by unequal angles aligned to our subconscious visual structure of sixteen types as revealed in artworks (UPDATE: by March 2018, the database of artworks had risen over 600, and statistically tested features to 265. UPDATE 2019; The table of recurrent features, and global averages, was enlarged in 2018 and 2019. See later posts).
The band of figures around the ecliptic favours pairs of opposing and complementary figures of near equal extent, supported by two, three or four adjacent constellations (decans) each. Constellation figures follow gestalt rules (perceptive wholes among parts) by connecting nearest and largest stars in stick figure form, favouring lucida (brightest stars as visual anchors). Constellations do not have their ‘eyes’ on an axial grid, but artworks do (with the two constant exceptions of type 11 Womb or Virgo with her midriff womb on the grid, and type 12/13 Heart or Leo with his chest or heart on the grid). Art does not “come from” the sky, but constellations come from collective subconscious wisdom, forming an independent medium, equal to art, ritual, and other media.
Most available star maps are projected differently, around the celestial (daily rotation) polar axis (pC and pCs), with a celestial reference grid which is continually updated to keep track of the slow migration of earth’s rotational poles and equator against the stellar backdrop.
The axial centre is analogous to the Ecliptic Pole, an imaginary axle for earth’s yearly orbit around the sun (which appears to us as the sun’s orbit passing through zodiac constellations). Pole E south (pEs) is always directly behind pE in inspired art. These poles are static, and could move only if the earth’s orbit around the sun, or the plane of the whole solar system changed.
Meteorite impacts or solar rotation wobble may have caused an ecliptic offset of about one degree in the human era.
Poles C and Cs are the celestial poles. The northern is currently at the hoof of the loose foreleg or jaw, over the galactic gate between Gemini and Taurus.
The southern is currently nearing Hercules, over the galactic centre (which is between Sagittarius and Scorpius). Both are currentlyh about 23.4 degrees from the ecliptic pole (axial centre). These poles are visible in the sky due to earth’s daily rotation, appearing to us as stellar rotation. Most sky maps and grids centre on one of these two celestial poles. Here both are shown, as if the sphere were transparent, just as artistic inspiration expresses our mindprint. The celestial poles slowly swing around the constant ecliptic pole, the path of their former positions here marked out by arrow tracks. Most cultures divide the celestial equator (not shown here) by 18, 24 or 36 bright stars or asterisms (small open clusters or groups of stars) as hourly markers, named decans.
The Galactic Poles, 11p or Gp, and 4p or Gsp, are static, between and just north of Virgo and Leo (above), and between and just south of Pisces and Aquarius (appearing also‘north’ if seen on a transparent sphere). The galactic equator is visible as a concentrated band of stars in the sky (shown here by northern and southern oblique circles, offset above and below). The galaxy around us is angled against the plane of the solar system by about 63 degrees. The imaginary axle through the plane of frozen rotation of the galaxy is an invisible concept.
Astronomers cite star and planet positions on a celestial grid, using the current spring equinox (here at the bottom) as a zero point, and either the north or south celestial pole as the highest point (here right or left of the centre). The celestial poles (and thus midsummer) have moved in the last 7000 years or more, since about BC 6300 or earlier, from between the two other poles (when the three poles formed a line at 11p, and the southern polar trio likewise).
Earth may have had higher obliquity (tilt) then, perhaps 26 degrees, so the celestial ‘swing’ is ever tightening due to some righting (earth’s spin is moving more upright to its orbital plain). Precession moves counter-seasonal, against the direction of the yearly sun cycle, and also moves the equinoxes (spring and autumn ecliptic crossings) at the same rate in the same direction. The summer meridian (north-south line) by definition follows 90 degrees after spring.
Dates, angles and rates of movement in distant millennia are uncertain, despite scientific assumptions applied in astronomy automation.
Science assumes obliquity to remain within small margins, in a predictable cycle of its own, yet there is some evidence of prehistoric high obliquity. The rate of precession is also known to change, yet assumed in science to remain nearly even (see an article on the supposed Gobekli Tepe ‘zodiac’, where the precession curve is discussed, onhttps://stoneprintjournal.blog/2017/06/08/gobekli-tepe-art-is-not-a-zodiac/ ). This study does not use astronomical dating older than about BC 3000, but uses relative dating instead, such as ‘Age Taurus 1’. Only one artwork hinting at Age Gemini was found (see a Niaux Ice Age bison herd), and none tagged to a supposed Age Cancer, Age Leo or earlier. Celestial polar markers were found only on or near the Leo axis (Age Taurus), Cancer axis (Age Aries), or Gemini axis (Age Pisces). These tags mean only that some aspects of each artistic inspiration is framed by a particular Age or era, just as we tell time by an approximate number of minutes after an hour. Many polar markers are between two of these axes, taken to imply ‘some time before the next transition’, just as we tell time by an approximate number of minutes before an hour. Captions in this study note these in-between markers as Age Taurus-Aries, Age Aries-Pisces, or Age Pisces-Aquarius, implying sometime during the last two centuries before and during an Age transition.
Since Age Aquarius has not yet started at the time of writing, the inspiration of works tagged as Age Pisces-Aquarius refers to the current era. Where a series of celestial polar markers appear in art, like a calibrated gauge, the concept of Ages is usually part of the general theme of a work, yet it could not be read off as a scale, partly since the angles of mindprint in art are not regular, and since inspirational time is outside historic time.
Nature and culture express the same archetypal structure (palm reflexology points after Aculife, with mindprint typolgoy and axial grid added by Edmond Furter, 2016). This 2016 structural phisology analysis better matches with the eye iris reflexology analysis based on the chart by Dr Jensen, and thus it replaces the earlier hand reflexology grid of 2014, which was based on an informal reflexology chart.Iris reflexology chart, right eye (Dr Bernard Jensen), with mindprint labelling and typological axes by Edmond Furter. The node sequence in our left eyes are contra-rotated, and ‘geared’ with the right iris.
Mindprint structure in natural reflexology
We ‘see’ with our eyes, brains and nervous system.
The geometric centre of opposing nerve links, or symmetrical pole of nodes, is not in the centre of the iris, but offset by about 20 degrees (taking the median ring of the iris, about where the lung, the back and other organs are marked, as a hemisphere (of 180 degrees, and the outer iris as folding out a third of the ‘underside’, adding up to about 240 degrees). Right and left eyes are near identical, but contra-rotating and ‘geared’ or mirrored between the heart and bronchial axes.
Markers for the conceptual celestial poles are uncertain. The horizontal plane of the body, on the Leo-Aquarius axis, tags the orientation of the human iris and body to Age Taurus1 -Taurus2, which is also the orientation and era tag of many rock art works, and of alchemical art in all Ages. However the centre of the human iris, perpendicular (90 degrees) off the galactic polar axle, tags the iris to Age Pisces-Aquarius, our current era. These two transitional era tags may imply that our physical features are oriented outside the history of extant (preserved and still available) expressions (see the Archetypes section). They do not imply that we acquired consciousness in any particular Age or era.
Ages are named after the position of the spring equinox, the season of highest biological activity. Taurus retains some attributes of spring, despite having lost the equinox about BC 1500.
Babylonian kudurru boundary marker rock cone (after Rawlinson, with mindprint analysis by Edmond Furter).
A Babylonian clock
Type 2 Builder or Taurus, decan Auriga-Orion as a bird on a forked staff, and an arrow. Between 1 Builder or Taurus, and 15 Maker or Gemini, in the galactic gate, is a squatting and backward shuffling dog, instead of a bull or healer, marking spring in Age Gemini-Taurus or Age Taurus1. This spring dog, sometimes at the opposite autumn equinox, or at midsummer or midwinter, appears in some cultures as a baboon or dog-headed baboon (see the Dendera zodiac in the Decans section). Canis Minor was on the celestial equator in Age Taurus, hinting that a former spring marker was adopted from Gemini, then reverted back once spring had moved into Aries and the celestial equator lay over the eye and rump of Taurus instead.
Precessional markers usually face retro (rearward), to oncoming Ages, as all these figures do, and as hourly decans do. Retro figures are usually monstrous versions (see posts on decans). The boundary stone may have been a public or court clock, perhaps marking sunlight hours by the shadow line (terminator) along its conical face. Its three polar or planetary markers on top could tag orientations for spring, to one extreme for summer, back to the spring position in autumn, and to the other extreme for winter. A conical dial requires technical thought and some trials, perhaps by technocrats who, like astronomers today, do not care for artistic or mythological images. When artists have free reign, the mindprint sequence and structure overrides the conscious symbolic programme, or at least survives the commission.
This work is a zodiac in the sense that clocks have divisions that could be decorated with concepts or constellations. The artist probably understood the given icons as composed by convention, as modern astronomers do. Like all artists he probably did not know that inspiration contains a sequence and geometric structure independent of conscious meanings or symbols. The major figures here are defined by shrines or altars, some bearing omphali (cones with rope patterns), each a navel or solar plexus of a place or direction. These altars could mark former Ages, places, hours or months, but are initially, and ultimately, subconscious ‘concepts’.
If updated today, the spring dog, baboon, bull, ram or horse would sit between Pisces and Aquarius, over the spout of the type 4 King or Pisces Cetus (Whale) monster.
The elephant trunk, sleeve, knife, axe or lamp over type 3 Queen or Aries, expresses Andromeda and Triangulum, confirming the Hindu motif of the same shape (see Indian churn groups in another post).
Type 11 Womb or Virgo, as its decan Bootes, is a circumpolar U-shaped staff top with two heads. The celestial pole is on the Bootes jaw of the staff, on the head facing 12 Heart or Leo, marking midsummer as freshly arrived in Leo from Virgo (by precession), confirmed by the Geminian spring dog arrived at 2 Builder or Taurus (end of Taurus in seasonal terms). This spring dog has yet to shuffle over the bird staff and arrow group, implying that the Pleiades marked the idea of spring even before it had hosted the spring equinox, unless the inspiration or the commission was conservative.
Other celestial polar markers provide for future Ages and aeons. Some are in the claws, beak, legs and tail of Leo-Cancer Ursa Minor retro as a retreating scorpion. The bears make good scorpion concepts and stick figures. In Age Taurus they may have figured the popular Babylonian Scorpion Woman, summer to a Scorpius autumn.
The polar trio adds markers to the polar gauge, confirmed by the crosspiece of an ankh-shaped club adjacent to the type 5 Priest or Aquarius spear. Archaeological dating favours the earlier, Age Taurus dating, making this one of very few works in this study to speak the ‘old heaven and old earth’ mindprint grammar.
Egyptian Dendera crypt lotus bulb engraving in context, with mindprint structure.
A lotus snake rain bag
Type 2 Builder or Taurus, decan Pleiades as a rain priest holding a rain flower bulb enclosing a snake, in a figurative linear set, doubled and mirrored by a heraldic linear set (Egyptian Dendera crypt north mural with lotus bulbs. E Chassinat; Dendera temple. Mindprint analysis by Edmond Furter). The kneeling posture is typical of Perseus, one arm upward to control rain and a Medusa head in a bag. Type 3 Queen or Aries is a hand and absent head of a djed pillar with arms raised, more typical of its opposite 10 Teacher or Libra, but with a long neck as usual. Taurus and Aries sometimes flank the mystical basket (see a Roman sarcophagus), here the djed pillar, as in the Osiris, Nebuchadnezzar and Moses legends of a trunk coffin or basket.
Type 10 Teacher or Libra is marked on the eye of his snake staff. His own head appears after 8/9 Healer or Scorpius (neither confirmed by opposites), thus he stands in for 8 Healer or Scorpius, decan Ophiuchus (Serpent holder). 1 Builder or Taurus as a knifeman defends 15 Maker or Gemini as a deceased soul against the Apop snake at the gate, for which the bulb snake stands in. In a rare coincidence with constellation shapes, or visual feedback (conscious recognition of a similarity between myth, icon and art), the bulb’s shape and angle expresses Taurus Hyades (Bull head), from its V-shaped face, along straight horns, to the stars Taurus Auriga alpha, El Nath (Horn), nicknamed Nail of the sky (Alpha Aurigae in astronomy), and the prior tip of Orion’s club. If the reclining horns are connected by a semicircle, as here, and as in buccranium solar discs, the rounded tip touches the gate. This gate is the annual crossing of the sun over the galactic river, nightly peril in mythology, and one of the four structural points of cosmology. The jaw end of Taurus Hyades extends into a stem, sometimes figured as a chin rest (see a forked staff and arrow in a Babylonian engraving), down to Aries Cetus tail. The lotus stem bends back around to the 3 Queen or Aries djed pillar base, tying up loose ends of the inevitable disjunction between conceptual order, decanal order and constellation order.
The bulb snakes, of which some technological assumptions such as ‘ancient lasers and DNA manipulation’ have been elaborated by some authors, are no more enigmatic than thousands of surreal rock art works. The bulbs are conceptual and spiritual mechanisms, ophiotauri (cow snakes. See an animal with entrails for a head with bee people). Healers describe rain animals of varied shapes with shiny skins, lured in dreams from waterholes, led by sky ropes like zeppelins, and gently milked (Bleek, cited in G Spiller; Origins films, DVD. Wits University). These visionary shapes, though resembling hippopotami, are all named ‘snakes’. Rain animals are controlled by healers in the guise of 1 /2 Builder, decans Auriga (Artemis), Orion, or Perseus (see the Narmer palette in another post).
Their opposites and cardinals also sometimes appear as snakes, dragons, bags or churn groups (see 8 decan Ophiuchus, Serpent holder, or Horus and Set turning the pneuma lung pump by lotus flower stems. See Indian lotus flower churns with snake ropes on lotus petals. See Mexican tree pillars. See a Fafnir ribbon-dragon and braided tree).
Type 3 Queen or Aries in the upper register is a cartouche under Maat ostrich feathers, usually identified with its opposite, 10 Teacher or Libra. The axial geometry is compacted by the linear arrangement, typical of decans with calendric, pantheonic and theological elements.
Repetitive upper register emblems or hieroglyphs are place holders for emerging attributes. The Dendera crypt south mural is near identical, but with a double imprint and two antithetical rain bulbs. The artists as usual were unaware of the extent of the underlying sequence and pattern in nature and culture.
Celestial polar markers are uncertain, but the horizontal plane between the 14 and 15 axes, tags the inspiration to Age Aries-Pisces, incidental with the Ptolemaic era.
Type 1 Builder or Taurus, decan Auriga-Orion as a bird-fish swift person (Easter Island, Hau Kota boulder engraving, Bradshaw Foundation. Mindprint analysis by Edmond Furter).
Fish people as swift people
Type 1 Builder or Taurus, decan Orion as a bird, fish or swift person (Easter Island, Hau Kota boulder engraving. Bradshaw Foundation.
Mindprint analysis by Edmond Furter). For lack of figures, the artist added articulated (linked-in) fish in the tails of other fish. A figure extending below the 4 Pisces human feet is implied by a tail remnant below, hinting that the human emerged from a seal shape. The work is on a 3m boulder, but in a compact style, comparable to carved palettes (see fish people in South African beach pebble palettes). Type 4 King or Pisces resembles Rapa Nui (Easter Island) bird people, developed in isolation from other cultures, yet these figures are recognisably swift people, some with bird beaks, figured as swallows, penguins or seals on other continents.
Galactic poles are remarkable for marking an isolated human head (left) and a human hand. Celestial poles are set by the nose and forehead of the octopus person, and a probable vertical plane, to Age Aries-Pisces, typical of palettes and of work of the last centuries BC, yet this work may be Age Pisces, and the inspiration thus retro. Another identification sequence is possible, also typical of palettes as double-sided, flip-over or contra-rotating expressions of the two spheres of our eyes, hands, brain and perspective.
Nelson Mandela as a composite triple type.
Type 5 Priest or Aquarius as Nelson Mandela (Mexico, Cuajiniciulapa Mandela Day festival mural, by South African artist Eljana van der Merwe and a Mexican university group. Round hut photo rollout by Eljana. Typological analysis by Edmond Furter).
Type 5 Priest or Aquarius often appropriates attributes of opposite and adjacent types (see a USA Piedra Pintada hand-drawn rock art copy in another post) and lends some attributes to other figures. Mandela is a Xhosa, an eastern Bantu tribe with some admixture of Bushman genes and language. He is also the integrator of the highly diverse South African nation, with a half Portuguese wife (see a Bushman man and Portuguese woman as Adam and Eve in T’Kama Adamastor), thus Mandela is a ‘painted’ (varicolorued), ordained (priest) figure, incidental with attributes of the type, and the South African rainbow flag. As herder, lawyer, chief, terrorist, prisoner, negotiator, politician, president, Nobel Peace Prize recipient, culture hero and icon, Mandela expresses type 5 Priest or Aquarius, noted as priest, baptist, undertaker, shape-shifter and angel in the Tables and other images. Popular figurines feature Mandela with prior president FW De Klerk, who expresses the type 4 King Pisces feature of a twin (see Tarot trump 4:19, distinct from the unequal twins of type 15 Maker or Gemini). Here, 15 Maker or Gemini is a large mask (face. See Salvador Dali; ‘It just popped up’. Type 1 Buidler or Taurus, decan Orion, is a tower (tower). Type 11 Womb or Virgo is probably on the Mexican woman’s womb, cropped off the photograph (the artists noted that she was not intended to represent Mandela’s second wife from Mozambique, Graca Machel). Celestial poles on Mandela’s ears (not usually included among limb joints), and the horizontal plane, tag the inspiration to Age Pisces late, incidental with his implied third eye and the implied sun behind him as Pisces (see Tarot trump 19, Sun), and furnace themes at the lighthouse and hut. Archetype does not respect the artist’s conscious mind or agenda, but uses both to imprint itself. It also appears in commissioned works and collaborations, as this work is reported to be.
Types 12 Leo and 13 Heart or Leo as the bowl-shaped hearts of spermiform figures, in a double concentric and dual-rotating mindprint (Bolivian disc3. Klaus Dona. Mindprint analysis by Edmond Furter).
Dynamic microcosm
Compare this artefact with Egyptian cosmetic palettes with bowls, as in the Hunters palette in another post).
Type 13 Heart or Leo’s opposite at 5b Priest or Aquarius, is a flamboyant figure in active posture as usual, and 5a Priest or Aquarius is a stylised waterbearer. Leonine and Aquarian types are doubled, as they are in mindprint art, but Taurus and Scorpius types are not doubled, hinting at jumps between concentric registers.
Type 3 Queen or Aries is an antithetical dragon or snake, as usual, but its opposite 10 Teacher or Libra is a man under a horizontal angel, more relevant to the concept of 3 decan Andromeda and Perseus than 10 features. In turn, 2 Builder or Taurus is a dragon with a long tail, more relevant to its opposite 9 Healer or Scorpius, which figures a hero with one arm in and one out, a timid 2 decan Perseus.
Thus some opposites are swopped, and parts of the sequence jump by 180 degrees, or parts of the sequence are flipped around.
Celestial polar markers on a hand and feet, and the likely horizontal plane, tag the inspiration to Age Pisces.
A rare kind of tyhpe 15 Gemini in Australian rock art
Australian Elivna pavement engraving (ATNF. CSIRO. Mindprint labelling and axial grid added by Edmond Furter). Type 15 Maker or Gemini [ge15] is probably a kangaroo or wallaby with a pouch (the type often has a bag, including some marsupials).
Dingoes in Australian rock art
A dingo (in the lower register, labelled 6) expressing type 6 Exile or Capricornus in Australian rock art (Queensland, Cape York. Exploreaustralia.net. Mindprint labels and axial grid added by Edmond Furter). The jumper expressing type 1 Taurus could be a hunting dingo, or a kangaroo baby jumping for its pouch.
Australia does not naturally have large felid, so dingoes sometimes express type 13 and/or 12 Heart or Leo (felid). Here, type 6 Exile or Capricornus could be a dingo, or dingo hunt quarry, or skin.
Note that the characters, and their attributes, and sequence, and relative spacing, is from archetypal inspiration, not from constellations.
Thus the sub-type or decanal type 15 Maker or Gemini, decan Canis (canid), is sometimes a dog, or with a dog, or attacked by a dog (best known as the Fool emblem, see Tarot trump 0, Fool, and Tarot trump 15, world creator). See myths of Gula.
However small canines also often express 14 Mixer or Cancer, decan Ursa Minor, or rarely its opposite 6 Exile or Capricornus (as it seems to do here, although it could be a hunt victim in stead of hunter in this position).
Australia does not have large felines, so a dingo in rock art may express type 13 and/or 12 Heart or Leo, with its heart instead of its eye on the axial grid in 85% of instances.
In an Australian rock painting, a dingo hunting a kangaroo expresses type 13 Heart or Leo, with its heart on the axial grid. I do not include it here, since it is in a blotchy ‘late white and red’ finger-painted style.
The types are in their standard sequence, with their eyes (with the two standard exceptions) on an invisible axial grid:
01 Builder Taurus; Hunting dingo, or kangaroo baby.
02 Builder or Taurus; Large spirit or rain woman (rain, priestess).
03 Queen or Aries; Long and bent arms instead of its more usual long or bent neck.
04 King or Pisces; Fish (fish, a rare feature). And a person (doubled).
05 Priest or Aquarius; Lines of dots (varicoloured. Here hidden by the label), large (large). Both its eyes are on the axial grid, opposite two Heart/Leo types.
06 Exile or Capricornus; Dingo or saurean.
07 Child or Sagittarius; Person, or half-animal, or skin (bag).
08 Healer or Scorpius; Large man (large).
09 Healer or Scorpius; Man jumping (arms up, trance?).
10 Teacher or Libra; Turtle or a skin, arms in V position (arms up).
11 Womb Virgo; Person’s womb (womb).
12 Heart or Leo; Person’s heart (heart).
13 Heart or Leo; Animal (felid proxy?).
14 Mixer or Cancer; Person.
15 Maker or Gemini; Kangaroo (rampant), white (white face), mother with a pouch (bag).
The axial centre may be a jaw (limb-joint). The ‘celestial pole’ is on a kangaroo paw (limb joint). The ‘celestial south pole’ is on the jumper’s paw (limb joint). These markers place ‘summer’ in Gemini, implying ‘spring’ in Pisces, and the cultural time-frame in Age Pisces (the last 2000 years up to 2016), the era of the work. Most art is expressed in the era preceding the work.
Type 15 Maker or Gemini as a white figure in a tight churn group, in a double imprint (Australia, Djuliri emu at a tree. Mindprint analysis by Edmond Furter).Two spheres, three paths
The type 15 charcter here is damaged and indistinct, but the position of its head is clear. Type 14 Mixer or Cancer is a giant emu with rearing neck, egressed away from, instead of ingressed to the centre as usual.
Elongated or split canvases seem to induce double imprints, usually separated by a tree or rope (see a USA Utah image at theme 5) or cleft (see Chauvet cave, and Trois Frere cave). One of the galactic equators in each sphere is shared, as usual in double spheres touching near the 4-5 Pisces-Aquarius polar axle, or the opposite 11-11-12 Virgo-Leo polar axle.
To visualise the double sphere, focus on the two irregular primary equators, which are drawn in angular, point-to-point style for clarity in this study. The language of dreams and inspired art is a compromise between subconscious structure, myth, images ready to hand, and conscious logic. Celestial polar markers are uncertain, but a headdress and the vertical plane in the left sphere, and a hand in the right sphere, both tag the inspiration as Age Pisces-Aquarius, our current era.
Andrew’s sketch of a large rock engraving in Australia (posted in a comment to Edmond Furter on grahamhancock.com), with tentative labelling of typological characters and a potential axial grid.
Australian world man
Reputed Australian rock engraving (posted by Andrew on Imgur and on grahamhancock.com, here with tentative labelling by Edmond Furter). The figures are probably without exact spacing in the sketch. Curved surfaces add to that problem at the scale of 10m, though not in smaller works where the artist could remain in one position. Relief raises the possibility that it is modern pseudo rock art. So does the copyist’s interpretation of the large outline as a map of Australia.
However, all inspired art probably expresses mindprint, even if the copyist made up the image. The work has some cosmological elements. Here is a tentative typological identification of the figures (noting archetypal features):
02 Builder or Taurus; Two fish (very rare in this position).
03 Queen or Aries; Animal.
04 King or Pisces; Fish (fish).
04p Gal.S.Pole;
Man’s foot (limb-joint).
05 Priest or Aquarius; Man in a world map (human, active, horizontal, large).
06 Exile or Capricornus; Animal, far out (egress).
07 Child or Sagittarius; Bulge (bag or juvenile?).
07g Galactic Centre; Map features?
09 Healer or Scorpius; Fish with a long tail.
10 Teacher or Libra; Fish with a prominent fin.
11 Womb or Virgo; Turtle, axis to her shell (womb).
11p Galactic pole; Turtle leg (limb-joint).
13 Heart or Leo; Whale?, axis to his chest (heart).
14 Mixer or Cancer; Fish (more often a bird).
15 Maker or Gemini; Man spearing (smite) or netting (rope, bag), with a bird decan (bird).
15g Gate; Gateway (path).
If all six axes crossed in one point, that would express the analogous ‘ecliptic pole’, and confirm that the artist did the usual inspired triple-layered magic that artists do. The galactic polar axle also crosses there, as if it were one of the three axles inside a transparent ‘flattened beach ball’.
The celestial polar axle could be on the horizontal plane of most of the animals, and thus near the 15 Gemini -7 Sagittarius axis, which is midsummer in Age Pisces, our current age, with the spring equinox in Pisces. The prominence of type 5 Aquarius may indicate the end of Age Pisces (cosmologically since 2016), as in some recent artworks where the celestial axle lies between the Gemini-Sagittarius axis and the Taurus-Scorpius axis. The Pisces-Aquarius transition date I tentatively calculate as 2016 in the book, based on an eclipto-centric planisphere (a star map centred on the ecliptic pole, or our annual orbit, not our daily rotation as most star maps are), with constellations (not signs) divided in a repeating 20 /30 /40 -degree sequence (not each 30 degrees). That structure underlies cosmology, myth and art, since all are archetypal.
Artworks keyed to the temporal framework of transitional eras, fluctuate between two Ages. However most artworks are framed by the preceding Age, as religious art during Age Pisces was mostly keyed to the end of Age Aries. A clear image of the engraving would probably offer more ‘hard points’ of typology and spacing, and may overrule this tentative identification.
The semi-geonetric figure on the side (below the imprint) is a ball person or therianthrope, common in American rock art.
Regarding conservation, all art is valuable due to its various therapeutic functions, yet dispensable, since it is infinitely recoverable.
A wheel cart
Type 14 Mixer or Cancer as a wheel or cart in a semi-geometric engraving. Its opposite, 6 Exile or Capricornus, is the only other wheel in the large work. (USA Utah, San Juan County, Monticello Newspaper rock. After James Q Jacobs. Typology and axial grid by Edmond Furter). Some parts of this complex American work also contain smaller mindprints, due to holographic effect. Giant footprints have a legendary life as supposed evidence of survival of hominid or humanoid races, or spirits made manifest. The nearest physical evidence for yeti is of a hairy and timid species of bear in the Himalayas. Tracking and estimating time are universal human and animal skills. Some archetypal shapes are co-incident with footprints and tracks (see a track as a fish pond frame, among the initial illustrations in the text). Celestial polar markers on a head and genitals, and the vertical plane, tag the inspiration as Age Pisces-Aquarius, our current era.
[caption id="attachment_167" align="alignnone" width="625"]Asian pirates with scarabs
Type 14 Mixer or Cancer as Y-people with scarabs (Asian Tien Shan range, Kangjiashimaji heads. After Scen.org. Typology and axial grid by Edmond Furter). Type 14 is often a Y-shaped tree, here a Y-person flanked by the only two scarabs in the work, as determinants of time and regeneration. The scarabs mimic dancers with arms up and hands bent inward, as of Naqada dancers. Feathers, maces, genitals, belt tails and horses appear in all pirate art (see the post on type 13 Heart or Leo). H people, house people, or footprint people, seem to favour 14 Mixer or Cancer, and 15 Maker or Gemini, former and current midsummer and celestial polar hosts. Heads or faces all over the work, probably intended as ancestral souls, express type 15 Maker or Gemini (often a face). 11 Womb or Virgo wears a face on her body, incidental with her usual pregnancy (womb). 4 King or Pisces, and 5 Priest or Aquarius, are near horizontal, typical of 5. Some galactic equator sections are marked by tight rows of small figures in a kind of snake dance. A distorted periphery, as usual, expresses the ‘equator’ of types. A near symmetrical and a distorted cycle of limb joints expess the galactic equator (here marked in error, they should cross the main equator of eyes between types 15-2, and 7-9). A celestial polar marker on a head, and on the vertical plane, tag the inspiration as Age Aries-Pisces, in the last few centuries before about BC 150, perhaps incidental with the work.
Hopi ancestral caves in the mound of creation
Type 15 Maker or Gemini as four ancestors with a skull and an arm (Mexican seven caves in Mt Mashu, of Hopi myth. After Wikimedia. Typology and axial ocular, eye-to-eye grid by Edmond Furter). The skull is a kind of white face, typical of 15 Maker or Gemini (often a face). The arm totem may express the concept of smiting a twin or rival, or double-bodied, as multi-armed principles (gods) in Indian art do.
The churner on the mound in a canine skin is in the gate, between the caves of 15 Maker or Gemini, and 1 Builder or Taurus, thus a type of Gemini decan Monoceros and Gemini decan Canis (Dog), where a churn group is often figured. The curved mountain sigil or glyph on top expresses a secure homestead with a blind entrance, as in the Egyptian hieroglyph for house. Chinese feng sui has a similar shape as an ideal home site. See a hill cave and gate in a Rosicrucian emblem at theme 6, and in movies such as Stargate.
Cultures and scientists perceive archetypal vision as tribal legend or history.
Celestial polar markers on an elbow and a staff tag the inspiration as Age Pisces, our current Age.
Alchemical and Rosicrucian emblem of natural structure as the ideal scientific structure.
Overworked mirror of art and nature
Type 6 Exile or Capricornus as Mercury in a fount on a planetary hill, over a cave of mystical marriage (Cabala as mirror of art and nature, Alchemia, 1615. Mindprint analysis by Edmond Furter). The mindprint axial structure is not symmetrical to the artist’s conscious design, confirming that archetypal featues and axes are subconscious, despite intensive conscious symbolism in the overworked scramble of alchemy. The Rosicrucian emblem reads to its intended viewers as a variation on the allegory of the mystical marriage of Christian Rozencreutz, with seven processes of alchemy, under seven planets. Even standard astrology is scrambled here (in a semi-circle, with signs out of sequence), but the subconscious structure is unaffected, as usual.
The mindprint sequence ropes in four personified planets, a phoenix, three zodiac figures from a planetary ‘house’ sequence, two alchemists and two rabbits.
Type labels; Characters (noting archetypal features);
01 Builder or Taurus; Blindfolded quester, following nature and instinct to the hidden work.
02 Builder or Taurus; Sign Aquarius (rain, here due to scrambled astrology).
03 Queen or Aries; Sign Aries (ovid, archetypally correct).
04 King or Pisces; Saturn as king (king) of time (more typical of 14). And sign Pisces (archetypally correct).
04p Gal.S.Pole; Moon and Jupiter. And between signs Capricornus (as a fish centaur) and Cancer (the analogous two constellations hosted summer and winter in Age Aries. The analogous two types, 6 and 14, both have polar functions between the ecliptic and celestial planes).
05 Priest or Aquarius; Phoenix (active posture, ascension), dappled (varicoloured) world spirit (world). Under sign Gemini (irrelevant).
06 Exile or Capricornus; Mercury (some of its mythical features are relevant to 6); under signs Gemini and Virgo (irrelevant). His kicked-out leg is the Venus part of his Mars-Venus sigil (see dance illustrations in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, discussed in Mindprint); his feathered headdress as Mars; his fount as ‘bath’ for planets, perhaps winter in Age Aries. The artist and the tradition did not consciously understand Mercury as potentially a multi-headed or horned Pan or Paris.
07 Child or Sagittarius; Bauble (bag) on the sun’s staff. Under sign Virgo (irrelevant).
07g Galactic Centre; Sun’s foot (limb-joint), also figured by two eyes on a sun face on the dome, one of which marks the ecliptic pole. Under sign Leo (irrelevant).
08 Healer or Scorpius; Mars (irrelevant). Under sign Sagittarius (irrelevant).
09 Healer or Scorpius; Venus (irrelevant), V-posture (arms up). Under sign Scorpius (archetypally correct).
10 Teacher or Libra; Scales (balance) of sign Libra (archetypally correct), including a beam (staff).
11 Womb or Virgo; Bull of sign Taurus (irrelevant), axis to her belly (womb).
13 Heart or Leo; Man, axis to his chest (heart), finding a route into the mount (interior), as difficult as for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle (see a camel eye on a ‘needle’ axis in Arabic rock art, and cattle in a U-gate, in Mindprint).
14 Mixer or Cancer; Rabbit entering a hole in the mount (more often a bear, lynx or bees).
15 Maker or Gemini; Rabbit (rampant, more often canid).
15g Gate; Alchemist’s hand (limb joint), at the staircase (juncture).
Coincidences between alchemy and mindprint derive from their respective holographic properties as subconscious expressions of archetypal order.
Inspiration favours prepared minds, particularly of students of nature, but not necessarily of learned minds. The supposedly ‘secret’ tradition of alchemy is based on chemistry, thus on glimpses of natural structure, a means to transformation and an end in itself. The craft’s conspiracy aspects have been overrated, and its structuralist aspects (leading to the discovery of the periodic table) have been underrated.
Manifestos, tracts, laboratories and institutions are perpetually distracted from the goals of transformation by conventions and technology, as the consciously symbolic layer of this work is distracted from natural structure.
The galactic pole is on a corner where four elements meet. Seven celestial polar markers on the king’s shoulder, elbow, hand and staff, and on the queen’s trefoil and jaw, form a gauge calibrating millennia through Age Taurus-Aries, Aries, Aries-Pisces, Pisces, and Pisces-Aquarius. The vertical plane tags the inspiration as Age Aries-Pisces, the most recent Age transition, but about 1700 years before the work. As in all mindprints, only the wheels of the mill of inspiration could grind this fine.
Lapp drum skin cosmogram with upper and lower worlds.
An Age Aquarius world tree
Type 5 Priest or Aquarius as an underworld guide (Lapp drum skin drawing with ritual celebrants. Typological labels and axial grid by Edmond Furter). The drum cosmogram healing tradition had updated its visions with Christian elements, and its sun rooted in type 4 King or Pisces, in Age Pisces, the Christian era (see Nordic Amlethus myths of a ‘many-coloured cover’ and salt mill in De Santillana and Von Deschend’s Hamlet’s mill; and critique of their ambiguous findings in Mindprint and Stoneprint). The flanking figures both have double staffs to calibrate the spring equinox, subconsciously in anticipation of the axial era (which occurred in 2016). The ritual officials are named Juksakka, Sakarakka and Madderakka. Their rectangular fish pond or ice fishing hole has an astronomy counterpart in the Pegasus Square, here displaced to type 3 Queen or Aries (pool).
Type 10 Teacher or Libra is a tree or branch, as it is in a South African Amatola work (see Mindprint); but branches are more usual at the cardinals, 90 degrees from of 10; at 14 Mixer or Cancer, and 6 Exile or Capricornus (see cosmic crosses in Egyptian and Mexican palettes, and the Externsteine carving in Mindprint).
There is no limit to what artists could express, and what all people could subconsciously know, individually and collectively. Language, art, music and conscious or semi-conscious symbolic codes are all parptial expressions of human experience. Conscious experience could only partly comprehend nature or archetype. Making and viewing artworks (and rituals, divination, healing and other media), supports the human need to express, create, celebrate and share inspiration, styled in terms of experience, as the ritual celebrants in the image imply. This drum and its mindprint, with its implied social ritual, is as adequate or inadequate as any myth or art could be.
Celestial polar markers on a calibrated ladder, as a gauge, tag for a series of Ages, up to the hand of the central celebrant, and the hand of World man (a type 5 priest or Aquarius stand-in) at the Age Aquarius start, subconsciously setting the time-frame of the Age Pisces-Aquarius transition in iconographic and cosmological terms. This is one of very few works found to tag for Age Aquarius.
Mayan palette with two antithetical dogs, directly comparable to the famous Egyptian ‘Two Dogs’ palette.
Dogs of a jungle paradise
Type 10 Teacher or Libra as a dog (canid), and 9c Basket Lid as a lid or wheel (Mexican dogs palette. Mayan culture. Typology labels and axial grid by Edmond Furter). A rare error in pairing places type 10 off the axial grid, with no counterpart at type 3 Queen or Aries; yet type 2c Basket, here a coil or backpack (basket), is opposite the 9c Basket Lid (it was labelled ‘ar’ for type 3 Aries in error, to be corrected in a future post or edition. See a basket lid with Buddha’s death in Mindprint). Lids, discs, wheels or mechanisms are typical of the four half-types (see a marble sarcophagus with a Cista Mystica, in Mindprint). The astronomical counterpart and antipode (spherical opposite) to the 2c basket or rope of the Medusa head (with mythical snaky hair, wrapped in a cloth by the hero Perseus), at 23 degrees north of the ecliptic, are the Lupus tail and Hydra tail, 23 degrees south of Libra. Thus the ‘lid’ is lifted on part of the mystery of the snake shrine god Serapis (which had temples in Greek, Roman and Egyptian classical cities such as Ephesus). UFO theorists may want to study these icons for clues on unidentified vortexes, lids, hats (sometimes blue), snakes, wolves, black dogs, centaurs, healers or scaly teachers leaning on two sticks, that tend to appear in art in this particular conceptual position.
Spring and autumn have long since left the Pleiades and Scorpius, yet the petrifying eyes of Taurus Perseus Algol Medusa, or mystic basket, remain fixed in archetype, and thus in myth and other media. It is opposite at the type 9 Healer or Scorpius, decans Lupus tail and Hydra tail, or Basket Lid; equally fixed in various cultural media.
In Hindu and Buddhist theology, turning of a pearl or marble initiates the dharma wheel, or layers of law. The pearl of conceptual motivation also applies to type 9 Healer or Scorpius, and the adjacent 10 Teacher or Libra as law enforcer wheel turner. They share Lupus as a decan. Some mythical doors are identified with 10 Teacher or Libra (see wheel-shaped Mexican caves above). The central disc may also figure an eclipse (typical of type 3 Queen or Aries), caused by sun and moon, the largest pair of natural ‘marbles’ or eyes.
Central woven vines or bark ropes may indicate an ayahuasca brew as trance inducer (see a separate post on ayahusca, mescaline, peyote, mushroom and chocolate art).
Celestial poles, here on a knot (juncture) and a jaw (limb joint), and on the vertical plane (orientation), tag the inspiration as Age Pisces late, the era of the work.
Ode on an arrowhead
I am preparing some regional or ‘cultural’ editions of the book Mindprint, to better represent the cultural context of arworks and building sites representing thousands of African, American, Near Eastern, classical and modern subconscious expressions of global ‘grammar’ or structure. These editions will include some classical and modern alchemical emblems and texts, and examples of the expression of cultural structure in myth and literature (Mindprint already has a chapter on a Mishnah verse); and more on the implications of the identification of subconsciously expressed archetypal structure for various sciences.
Below are some of my initial notes, followed by an alchemical poem of my own.
The first recorded use of the term mindprint is by Thoreau, who found an American flint arrowhead and wrote in his diary that it was an indelible “mind print” of man, along the erased footprints of men. Loren Eisely developed the term; “Mankind does not have enough evidence to determine exactly how humans came to be.” And in his book Immense Journey, he added, “…as though we stood at the heart of a maze and no longer remembered how we had come there… the human version of evolutionary events [is] perhaps too simplistic for belief.” Eisely also noted some of the illusions of science in Firmament of Time: “A scientist… remarked that past generations lived and died in a world of illusion. The unconscious irony [is] that this man assumed the progress of science to have been so great, that a clear vision of the world without illusion was, by his own time, possible… when Mendel was just about to be rediscovered… Science may have become misguided in its goals… of setting up artificial worlds.”
The mindprint rhyme
Crab or goat, snake or lynx, man or bird play numbered parts,
in the grammar of artists’ eyes and hands,
compelled to think and see and print our mark.
First and second a builder or bull-snake twists to juggle rain,
from a small bridge where swifts spin to a buzzing tower.
Here a basket of mystery may bear a monstrous head.
Third a meek dragon or sheep bends its neck to shield a queen.
Fourth a sun king squats in flanking frame, or princes play behind a garden wall.
Here a pillar rooted on an elephant or whale marks the current retreat of our spring.
Fifth an exuberant motley priest stretches benediction or judgement to the world;
fifth again, for good measure, may trot a horse,
where a number repeats to reduce the count that accounts for all things.
Sixth strains inward or away an anointed exiled sacrifice,
or in merry rampant dance looks fore and aft, counting appointed time,
its partner opposite likewise near or far from the core.
Seventh in a baggy skin grows a centaur child.
From under a large bridge our limb joints churn to their places in the sphere.
Eighth or ninth a strong healer bends his horns in healing pain.
Tenth a lord of nature balances the ways of the world on a staff or wheel.
Eleventh a pregnant woman nurtures an unborn eye in her womb.
Here a baby rooted on a pillar or chalice marks the current retreat of our autumn.
Twelfth or thirteenth prances or falls a lion,
his claws and fangs to feed the eye in his hungry heart.
Fourteenth strains inward or away a small figure mixing elements and counting time,
its opposite partner likewise near or far from the core.
Fifteenth and at the start, a maker and moulder ropes souls to the soil to smite the states of mind to order.
Central to the ragged round of sixteen eyes, lies the hub of their radial grid unseen,
bearing eight axes, and the eternal axle anchoring two wide spheres of limb joints,
bearing also a retreating axle between two stray joints.
Our three axle pairs anchor loops of eyes, and joints, and limbs,
as wheels hinge within wheels.
Steadfast as our mindprint are also the stars, in ritual step with myth and mutant history.
This is the grammar of artists’ eyes and hands,
compelled to think and see and print our mark on our place
in the mind and eyes and hands of the imprint of archetype.
-Edmond Furter 2015, revised 2019
A dingo exrpessing type t6 Capricornus in Australian rock art (Queensland, Cape York. Exploreaustralia.net. Mindprint labels and axial grid added by Edmond Furter). The jumper expressing type t1 Taurus could be a hunting dingo, or a kangaroo baby jumping for its pouch.
An Australian Kimberley Gwion ‘Sashes’ area rock art image (Bradshaw Foundation) of dancers, one with a long-necked mask, with typology labels and axial grid by Edmond Furter.Mindprint or stoneprint model of character types, in their peripheral sequence, as pairs of opposites forming an axial grid of eyes, with five polar points of limb joints or junctures.
Mindprint is sixteen recurrent character types, each expressing a cluster of optional archetypal features, and each feature at a specific fixed frequency globally; with the eyes or focal points of pairs of opposite forming an axial grid; surrounding five polar points of limb joints or junctures in specific sectors.
The eyes or focal points of typological characters are replaced by a heart and a womb, in adjacent positions; at type 12 and/or 13 Heart, and type 11 Womb. Characters form an irregular and ragged oval, at varied radii. The spatial structure is analogous to a flattened cosmic sphere of three planes (ecliptic, galactic and celestial), with polar features of the underside or ‘south’ visible as limb joints in certain positions.
One or both the ‘celestial’ poles is incidental with the position of the midsummer and midwinter solstices, as it was in one of the last three astrological Ages (or four mindprint Ages, since Age Taurus is doubled). Celestial poles move in an inward spiral arc around the ecliptic pole, analogous to precession, and the Age of the artist’s or builders’ culture, usually the Age before the work.
Four of the types are optionally doubled or single; types 1 and/or 2 Builder or Taurus, are opposite types 8/9 Healer or Scorpius; and types 5a/5b Priest or Aquarius, are opposite types 12/13 Heart or Leo. Type 5 repeats is number in the first magnitude series (some cultural media express two or three cycles of mindprint, where 5:20 and 5:21 are differentiated by their numbers). Thus the highest type number in the first magnitude is type 15 Maker or Gemini, however there are sixteen types, since label 5 is initially repeated.
Known magnitudes of the sixteen types are 0:15, 1:16, 2:17, 3:18, 4:19, 5:20, 5:21 (where the sequence changes to sequential numbers), 6:22, etc (from where the sequence is validated against atomic numbers in the periodic table, and against features of the I Ching, though not against the variant number sequences of divination sets).
The entire arrangement of five layers of structure, is subconscious and compulsive to artists, and independent of conscious and conventional attributes, design grids, perspective lines, and ‘conceptual’ meanings and conscious symbolism. Conscious ‘logic’ or rationalisation offers various layers of optionality to artists, builders and cultures, but the subconscious archetypal features remain standard in all cultures, areas and ages.
Mindprint was discovered in 2010, and its types, attributes, geometry, polar structure and correspondence with myth, emblems, the Tarot deck and astronomy (particularly hour decans or ‘lunar’ calendars) were assigned, numbered and tabulated by Edmond Furter, and published in the art analysis, anthropology and archaeo-astronomy book Mindprint, the subconscious art code, in August 2014 (Lulu.com).
After Furter, ED, 2014. Mindprint, the subconscious art code. Lulu.com
Terminology and data has since been updated in Stoneprint, and in Stoneprint Journal editions.
Update of typology labels, features, and global average occurrence (January 2019)
This table also serves as a standard format for testing and reporting the identification of subconscious, archetypal features in artworks, rock art works, building sites, or other media.
Site /Artwork,,,, expresses ,,,,
This ,,,,, in ,,,,, is noted for ,,,,,.
General themes in the work include types ,,,,
In any artwork, building site, or sequential craft set (calendar, gods, divination list, alphabet, emblems), characters form an axial grid by their eyes or focal points, and express about 60% of these recurrent feature clusters, with each feature at a measurable universal average frequency
Type; Character (archetypal features with average frequencies):
The axial centre or ‘Ecliptic pole’ is unmarked 59%, limb joint 24%, juncture 14%.
Midsummer or ‘Celestial pole’ is a limb joint 54%, juncture 24%.
Midwinter or ‘Celestial South Pole’ is a limb joint 46%, juncture 24%.
Solstice polar orientation is on the horizontal 50% /vertical 12% plane, or north-south meridian or east-west latitude.
Polar markers place ‘summer’ in Leo /Cancer /Gemini, thus ‘spring’ and the cultural time-frame in Age Taurus /Aries /Pisces, confirmed by a prominence.
The general theme of dispersed features is type __
Structural layers of expression are subconscious to artists, architects, builders, crafters, and members of any culture.
An analysis could be scored as __/75 archetypal features; __/16 axial points; _/5 polar markers; _/1 planar or cardinal orientation; _/1 correlation with the Age, or Age prior to the work; _/2 general themes; thus __/100, minus __ extra characters off the axial grid; total __%. The average analysis score is 60%, in a sigma range of about 0.4 (40% range), from 40% to 80% of known features. The scoring formula may change if more features are isolated.
Mindprint book summary
The introduction explains how to read the illustration labels (see a post and comments on www.edmondfurter.wordpress.com), and reveals the types and structural features in art. It also notes some aspects of their disguise.
Chapter A demonstrates six examples of the typological sequence, and explains structural sets in nature, myth, grammar and our subconscious.
Chapter B demonstrates the structure in our iris and bodies, and explains our structural perception, inspiration, consciousness, psychology and disguise.
Chapter C demonstrates the structure in our hands, and explains the co-incidence of structure in our bodies, culture, events and literature.
Chapter D demonstrates cosmic structure and explains structural cosmology, astronomy and astrology.
Chapter E demonstrates cosmic polar structure and explains structural time, Ages, archaeo astronomy, planets and spherical doubling.
Chapter F demonstrates artistic structure in a famous painting by Pierro de Cosimo (see below), and explains structural symbolism, artistic functions, initiation and esoterica.
Chapter G demonstrates a rock art painting process, and explains structural inspiration and compulsive expression.
Chapter H tests mindprint in two Egyptian decanal sets [Narmer and Dendera; see below], and explains conscious aspects of expression, as well as the Tarot trump sequence numbering.
Chapter J lists the attributes and concepts of the sixteen types, reduces these to tables, offers a format for artistic typological data, formulates a statistical test, tests 170 artworks, lists and explains the results. It also demonstrates how to identify visual types and archetypal structure in art, speculates on the possibility of prior discovery, and lists the few inherent ambiguities among some types.
Chapter K compares scientific and esoteric paradigms, illustrates natural ‘art’, and speculates on the implications of the discovery of mindprint for some sciences and crafts.
Chapter L demonstrates mindprint in 200 artworks (the book contains 214 examples in total), grouped by their dominant themes, and ordered to compare rock art against schooled art. Some notable details are explained.
The postscript explains how the visual types and structure were found. (see below)
Mindprint index
How to read the illustration labels
The typological sequence and axial grid
The subconscious artefact and its disguise
[A] The figure sequence in our art
Comparing our semi-conscious sets
Animals, Myth, Grammar, Subconscious layers
[B] The structure in our eyes and bodies
Our eyes flash Boo; Oto-visual emissions
The vortex of visual inspiration
Gestalt and Occam
Psychological structure
[C] The structure in our hands
Our inner and outer structures converge
Archetype dressed as culture
Literate structure in a Mishnah
[D] The structure in our cosmos
Our astronomical sets
The galactic and polar cross
Astrological structure
40 [E] The three poles of time
42 Our calendric sets
43 Ages in art
46 Age Aries, Age Pisces, Age Aquarius
50 The typological spiral chart
52 [F] The structure in our art; Honey to mead
54 Conscious and subconscious meaning in art
57 Mystery and initiation
58 Instant culture, art analysis, doubled spheres
62 [G] The layers in our expression
64 Digging through paint layers
67 The double life of decans
68 Decans on the Narmer palette
70 Decans in the Dendera zodiac
72 The Tarot trump sequence
73 Compulsive inspiration and expression
75 [J] Holistic types 1 to 15
79 Typological tables
82 Statistical test of artistic types
84 Statistical test results
87 How to identify types and structure in art
88 Commission impossible
88 Duplications and conventions
89 Conscious recognition is elusive
91 Ambiguous types
93 Scientific and esoteric paradigms
96 Nature is also an artist
97 Esoteric structure
98 Implications for sciences and crafts
99 [L] Mindprint and sixteen themes illustrated
[Note; Type labels in the first edition used mythic constellation and hour decanal names, with the warning that typology is also in myth and strology, but does not arise from any media. Type labels have since been updated to generic social function labels; and the four half-types or Basket types have since been defined and demonstrated.]
100 1 Taurus Auriga, Orion; Rain diviner
110 2 Taurus Pleiades, Perseus; Rainmaker
118 3 Aries Andromeda; Moon queen, dragons
130 4 Pisces Pegasus; Sun king, Sun twins
134 5a Aquarius Pegasus; World baptist
148 5b Aquarius; World spirit
160 6 Capricornus; Pan
164 7 Sagittarius; Bag
170 8 Scorpius Ophiuchus; Giant snake holder
180 9 Scorpius; Giant in trance
182 10 Libra Bootes; Lord of the forest
188 11 Virgo; Womb
198 12 Leo Crater; King inverted
212 13 Leo Ursa; King’s heart
224 14 Cancer Ursa Minor; Time angel
232 15 Gemini; Creator and rope churner
240 15 Gemini Canis; Creator wounded
250 How mindprint was discovered
253 Acknowledgements, About the author
254 Terminology
257 Index of rock art tested, Index of art tested
265 Graphics sources, Sources, References.
(Excerpt from Mindprint, the subconscious art code, by Edmond Furter, 2014, Lulu.com)
==== Comment from David Allen April 2015;
Thank you for the opportunity to meet you and to listen to your talk. What you said has sent me back to the drawing board concerning my knowledge of archetypes.
What had the most impact for me was your reference to the fact that archetypes, and even culture itself, are not some artificial “construction” born of this reality, but come from a pre-existent reality that “was” before the “big bang”.
The way you supported this contention by showing how virtually one single visual pattern is repeated (with some minor variations) through all works of inspired art (I think your use of the distinction “inspired” was essential here) stretching from as far back as the Ice Age into the modern era, across many nations, cultures, religions, belief systems, continents, and throughout history, and how it can be traced in the heavens, served to emphasise this point particularly strongly for me.
Although the idea of a “pre-existent reality” is not new to me, I have found almost no support for it. If anything I have come across only deep and virulent criticism of it and so have kept an open mind on the subject. Maybe it is a sign that I need to hang out with a better class of reading material.
I found your support of this notion very pleasing because it confirmed something that always made intuitive sense to me. It will give me much food for thought and reflection in the coming weeks and months because it will feed into, and influence to some extent, much else that I am interested in.
But probably the most important revelation was that your talk has shown me how much I still have to learn and how much work awaits me in terms of now having to unpack and discard much of what I have taken to be “true”, and then to refresh my conceptual foundation and belief system concerning a number of important topics.
I begin the task of reading and absorbing your book today. -David Allen.
Axial grid of the sixteen types (numbered 1 to 15, but repeating 5), and four transitional types (c-numbers), as they appear in artworks, building sites and iconic sets. Orientation, angles and radii differ in each work. Each character expresses some, never all of the cluster of features of its type.
Finding mindprint in a work of art is as simple as finding correspondences to any archetypally complete set or sets of about sixteen (twelve to twenty) items, such as pantheons (lists of gods), myth cycles, epics, emblems, lunar mansions, trumps, historic or fictional characters, constellations, heraldic devices, lyrics, or animals.
Researchers should tack characters in art to sets that they are familiar with, and use the mindprint axial grid and tables for confirmation (see the post What is mindprint, on this website. See Mindprint, the subconscious art code, by Edmond Furter, 2014, Lulu.com). Here is a shortcut method to finding the basics of the five layers of the archetypal art code;
[] Identify a likely periphery of figures in a roughly elliptical arrangement.
[] List the figures in their circular sequence, by any distinctive attribute, such as a posture, season, function, species, or device.
[] Provisionally tag the list or the artwork, with likely type numbers, such as 10 Teacher for a figure with arms up or a staff, 12 or 13 Heart for a felid, 1 or 2 Builder for a bovid or tower, 5 Priest for varicoloured, skin paint or a hyperactive posture.
[] Tag figures notably ingressed or egressed towards or away from the centre, as 6 Exile or 14 Mixer.
[] Tag a pregnant figure as 11 Womb; and an adjacent major figure as 12 or 13 Heart (usually with an exposed chest), and the adjacent figure on the other side as 10 Teacher.
[] Infer a clockwise or anticlocwise sequence, and provisionally complete the labellling.
[] Count the number of eyes (for example 17), assume the lower even number (for example 16), subtract two (for example 14), skip half of this number (for example 7) between eyes, and draw tentative axes between each pair of likely opposing eyes.
[] If three or more axes cross at the same point, find the likely 11 Womb, and a likely 12 or 13 Heart, and redraw errant axes by not using their eyes (unless their eyes also find counterparts across the axial centre).
[] If three or more peripheral figures remain unaccounted for, assume a higher equal number (for example 18), and repeat the test with higher numbers.
[] Resolve the sequence by splitting up or combining the major doubles (1 /2 Builder, 5a/5b Priest, 8/9 Healer, 12/13 Heart).
[] Complete all the possible axes. Connect the equator from eye to eye (with the two exceptions).
[] Find one or two polar markers between 11 Womb and 12 Heart, or between 4 King and 5 Priest, near the equator (not near the centre). These poles are often on limb joints.
[] Find a polar marker nearer the axial pole, on or near the 15 Maker, 14 Mixer, or 13 Heart axis; which is often a limb joint, perhaps a jaw, vertical or horizontal from the axial centre or from one of the galactic poles. Connect this marker to the galactic pole to form a polar triangle (or if there is a marker on the opposite side, connect it to the galactic south pole).
[] Mirror the polar triangle on the other side of the ecliptic pole. Polar markers are not always expressed. Infer the inspirational date (spring) from the type that precedes the polar axle (midsummer) by an ideal 90 degrees (approximate, not measured on the distorted grid).
[] Apply the set of labels, one to each figure, and the four structural points, in sequence. Note that there is a choice of two labels (/) at the four major types if they are represented by only one figure (typical if the total is only twelve or fourteen);
1Builder
2Builder
2cBasket
3Queen
4King
4p
8Healer
9Healer
9cLid
10Teacher
11Womb
11p
5aPriest
5bPriest
5cTail
6Exile
7Child
7g
12Heart
13Heart
13cHead
14Mixer
15Maker
15g
cp
csp
?
?
The axial centre or ‘Ecliptic Pole’ is unlabelled to avoid clutter.
[] Half-types (2c Basket v 9c Lid, 5c Tail v 13c Head) are usually off the axial grid, but within their sectors, designated by the axes of the two types that flank each of them.
[] On a separate page, list the type numbers, with basic distinctive features or characters found in the artwork, to compare to other artworks, mindprint statistics, stories, myths or typological sets.
This structure applies to all artworks, in all cultures, in all ages, due to the structure of nature, perception, expression, and cultural media. Mindprint also applies to myths and legends, but it is difficult to extract to a subtext, due to typical fluctuation between characters, places, episodes, and time. In art, the time-slice of the story stands still, and the composition could be verified against the original, or reproductions in catalogues, books and electronic galleries, such as tourist image sites.
See a standard format for testing and reporting structural art or building site analysis, in the post on ;What is mindprint’ on this website.
Mindprint types and geometry on the Narmer palette front (Edmond Furter; Mindprint, the archetypal art code, 2014. Lulu.com)
The Narmer palette front demonstrates subconscious expression of archetypal structure in a decanal set, in stock Sumerian and Egyptian pre-dynastic style. Here is the standard list of the types, with the characters in this artwork, in seasonal sequence from the former spring point, with its analogous hour decan (after Furter 2014; Mindprint).
Type label; Character, (archetypal feature); Decan
03 Queen or Aries; Spouted pot (bent neck); Cetus Tail.
02 Builder or Taurus; Large star (spring?); Pleiades.
01 Builder or Taurus; Sandal-bearer (twisted); Orion.
15 Maker or Gemini; Hathor cow frontal (face); Ursa Minor.
14 Mixer or Cancer; Catfish hammer and chisel, far from the centre (egress), Y-shaped (tree); Ursa on Cancer on Hydra head.
13 Heart or Leo; Horus falcon (raptor); Leo Minor?
11p Galactic Pole; Horus hand (limb-joint); Coma Berenices.
11 Womb or Virgo; Horus abdomen (womb). And an Asiatic marsh subject; Crater?
10 Teacher or Libra; King’s brother’s genitals and hand (bent neck, of 3 opposite); Bootes.
09 Healer or Scorpius; Defeated enemy (twisted, of 2 opposite); Corvus?
08 Healer or Scorpius; Ribbon (snake); Serpens.
07 Child or Sagittarius; Prisoners’ hands (rope); Cygnus?
06 Exile or Capricornus; Prisoner (sacrifice), near the centre (ingress); Piscis Austrinus?
05 Priest or Aquarius; Pond (water); Pegasus Square.
04p Gal.S.Pole; Heel (limb joint) of twin (typical of 4); Cetus?
04 King or Pisces; Heel (typical of 4p) of king (king).
The celestial pole marker is on the king’s genitals or shoulder (limb joint), confirmed by the vertical plane of the work. These markers place ‘midsummer’ in Cancer, thus ‘spring’ and the cultural time-frame in Age Aries or just prior.
The general theme on the reverse of the palette is type 3 Queen or Aries, typical of dragons.
The palette carries the same figures, and nearly the same sequence of features, on both sides. On the front, the characters are in a court or festival context, centered on type 15 Maker or Gemini as a smiting, ordering, re-creating pharaoh. Several optional links flip the sequence between the two sides, in the ‘transparent’ method also used in some Egyptian murals.
On the palette’s reverse side, type 13 Heart or Leo is a dwarf, symbol of a client culture paying homage. The dwarf resembles a figure in Queen Hatshepsut’s Punt colonnade, perhaps a Khoe Queen of Sheba.
Narmer palette rear, with standard structuralist labels and axial grid. The artefact is discussed in more detail among other illustrations themed on type 3 Queen or Aries in the book.
The dwarf’s function and conceptual role is as important as the tribe he or she represents. On the subconscious level, the royal figure and heart of type 12/13 Heart or Leo are expressed in a foreign but compliant leader from the interior that feeds the Nile. Some dwarfs are seen as rainmakers (Tressider; Watkins Dictionary of symbols). Empire needs flattery by tribes with apparently semi-human features or languages, considered more in touch with animals and nature, and thus used as rainmakers, herbalists, and fertility or defensive spell casters.
Bushmen and Khoe or Nama (born of occasional pre-Bantu and pre-colonial admixtures) fulfilled these functions to migrating Iron Age African Bantu tribes, and to emergent mixed Korana, Griekwa and Amatola bands in South Africa. They served white settlers even during the systematic genocide and cultural extinction of Bushmen by regional masters such as the Zulu, Dutch and British.
Mindprint art example; Pierro de Cosimo's Discovery of Honey (Edmond Furter; Mindprint, the subconscious art code. 2014. Lulu.com)
Types 8 Healer as a giant tree stump face, hosting a bee colony, with satyrs and people collecting honey and brewing mead (Pierro De Cosimo; Discovery of honey. Typology labels and axial grid by Edmond Furter).
Most characters in the artwork, as in all artworks, are identified by some archetypal features (gender, posture, function, implements or relative position), confirmed by the position of their eyes on an axial grid of opposite pairs.
Type label; Character (noting archetypal features); analogous hour decan:
1 Builder or Taurus; A satyr kid below an adult hand, recalling the goat kids of Artemis; decan Auriga.
2 Builder or Taurus; Crouching (twisted) leader, with a mirror or ladle (rainmaker); decan Orion.
3 Queen or Aries; Wielder of bellows or hammer, instruments of sacrifice (sacrifice); decan Triangulum.
4 King or Pisces; A male, with hive cakes or an implement of two rectangles (rectangle); decan Pegasus.
5 Priest or Aquarius; Priest (priest), prominent (large), with a tuning fork (U-shape, of type 6). Of human appearance, positioned between satyrs and women with human items; decan ?
6 Exile or Capricornus; Boy (child, of type 7), with only lower legs of a goat (Pan); decan Capricornus tail knot.
7 Child or Sagittarius; A centaur, more animal than human; decan Sagittarius.
7g Galactic Centre; Spring or pool (water, juncture); decan ,,,,
8 Healer or Scorpius; Trunk (pillar) mouth, hive of honey (healer, and trance induced by lowered blood pressure and buzzing bees); decan Ophiuchus, Snake Holder.
10 Teacher or Libra; Arm in V-posture (arm/s up), with herbs (staff?); decan Bootes.
11 Womb or Virgo; A midriff (womb); decan Spica.
12 and 13 Heart or Leo; Two chests (heart, heart); decan Ursa and Leo.
14 Mixer or Cancer; Eyes of the types 12 Heart and 11 Womb characters (mixture); decan Hydra head? This type is one of the general themes in the work, of satyrs or goat-people (mixture), mead (brew, transform), and supposed evolution (time).
15 Maker or Gemini; Bacchus (churn of bodies or souls), carrying a passenger (doubled). Axis 15 continues to another doubled figure, a satyr carrying a companion (doubled. See a jackal abducting a sheep in a paradise parody by Cyril Coetzee; T’Kama Adamastor).
Characters in all artworks express optional features, with some minor structuralist imperfections. Here type 7 Child or Sagittarius has his back turned, more usual of adjacent 8 Healer, decan Ophiuchus (which here is combined with type 9 Healer or Scorpius). Type 3 Queen or Aries has it axis not on its eye, but on its hand holding a bellows or hammer, which is a kind of bag or formling, more typical of the types flanking the four galactic corners. The overall sequence and structure remains clear.
‘Cosmic’ equators
The ragged oval or characters is analogous to the Ecliptic Equator in cosmology. The outline in complex works often includes some line economy, uding a continuous line, as here between the eyes of types 1, 15 and 14.
The two ‘Galactic’ Poles (4p and 11p), imply two ‘galactic’ equators, usually on a series of limb joints (here marked by thin, oblique semi-ovals), always crossing the typology outline or ‘ecliptic’ equato between 1-15 and between 7-g. The two ‘galactic’ equators overlap in the interior, and continue around two different ‘hemispheres’ as two exterior lobes. These two equators often divide compositional groups, as here they divide the culture group of people, v the nature group of satyrs.
Subconscious inspiration and conscious composition always overlap, yet artists are not aware of using attributes, postures, a figure sequence, eyes or limbs in the service of any detailed or standard structure. The five layers of cultural expression is inherent in the materials, themes, perceptions and ‘grammar’ or ‘DNA’ of human nature.
Polar triangles in art
The galactic pole (type 11p, or pG) is always near the equator, between types 12 and 11 (decan Crater, Grail); usually on a limb joint, here on the shoulder of a crawling figure, perhaps drunk with mead and thus relevant to grail and elixir themes.
The celestial pole (pC) is usually on a limb joint near the axial centre, and on or near the axis of the current or recent summer solstice, thus near axis 13, 12, 14 or 15. Here the celestial pole is on the shoulder of a satyr mother, between 14 and 15, where the celestial pole was in Age Aries late; but her elbow marks an earlier Age (of a perceived natural and cultural paradise) and her jaw (often a polar point) marks Cosimo’s forthcoming (now current) Age Pisces-Aquarius.
The ‘galactic south’ pole, 4p or pGs, is always between axes 4 and 5, but not always marked. Here it is on the jaw (limb joint) of an extra character (identified on an eye in error, before the role of limb joints was statistically confirmed).
The ‘celestial south’ pole on the hip of type 3 Queen or Aries tags the inspiration as Age Aries late, or Age Pisces early, at the time of the perceived formation of De Cosimo’s Christian culture.
Inspirational dating is a subtle geometric, mythical, conceptual and iconographic aspect of cultural expression, demonstrating the depth of the holographic structure in artistic inspiration. Even gifted nature spirits such as De Cosimo, on par with the best artists and rock artists in the world by any definition, did not consciously know mindprint, and could not fake it.
Both sides of a flat sphere
Mindprint structure is analogous to a sphere, imagined from above the sun, and simultaneously from above the earth. Armillary spheres, the basis of time and navigation instruments such as astrolabes, also express space and time by these two apparently contradictory perspectives. In addition to the dual ‘angelic’ perspective from infinitely far above (which is north in archetype, as it is in convention), the mirrored perspective from the south is included in cultural media and expressions. A model of perception requires parts of two armillary spheres, the northern one flared out and cut generously around its equator to retain zodiac and southern decan asterisms (see the cosmology image in another post); as well as the complete southern galactic equator. The southern hemisphere is cut stingily to avoid zodiac duplication, but its mirrored view of the galaxy is retained partly inside the ‘squashed’ centre, and partly on the flared rim outside the equator of characters.
Thus artworks contain two armillary sets, of three poles and five equators each. The central poles appear as one point, since they are viewed or ‘squashed’ along their own axle, revealing that culture is spatially ‘projected’ on the ecliptic plane, leaving the celestial and galactic equators oblique. Celestial equators are not shown in structuralist analyses, for the sake of simplicity.
There are no degrees of difficulty in the miracles of nature, perception and cultural expression. The resulting myth map differs from astronomical maps in reducing the celestial pole (of daily rotation) to a minor role; to focus on the ecliptic plane (of yearly orbit).
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