Who birthed the Renaissance? (NEW CONCEPTS)

[Ishmael]

Ok. I just looked this up.

I believe you have just opened quite a can of wurms. And not the one you meant to open.

[Angus McOatup]

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[Ishmael]

Identify Moore's Fool.

Now I will tell you his name.

His name is Dionysus.

[Ishmael]

Going through the author's material, I came across this gem:

The impression is that : (1) The Sun is a symbol of the royal house of York. (2) The mystery man is a Duke of York, marked by a hidden perpendicular from the arc of the sun's corona (a symbol carried on the personal arms of the second son of the English kings : i.e. the Duke of York). (3) Someone has just died, since the curtain is drawn, the emblem shows a black eclipse and Thomas More is oddly unshaven (symbols of 'death' and 'mourning').
-- Sir Thomas Moore and the Princes in the Tower

Surprisingly, the author missed this:

"The Victorians had a lot of superstitions associated with death. When there was a corpse in the house you had to cover all the mirrors," she said. "And if a mirror in your house was to fall and break by itself, it meant that someone in the home would die soon. When someone died in the house and there was a clock in the room, you had to stop the clock at the death hour or the family of the household would have bad luck.
-- Civil War Era Mourning

I remembered this because, in Newfoundland (where I was born), this remains our tradition; all the mirrors are covered; all the clocks are stopped.

[Ishmael]

This Web site is a perfect study in AE, illustrating again for us that principle recently mentioned; for every bad idea, there is an equal and opposite crazy idea. This is the crazy idea.

The bad idea is orthodox history.

The author has hunted a conspiracy that does not exist, in an attempt to solve an historical mystery that likely never happened, by reference to persons who probably never lived.

But in so doing, our conspiracy has uncovered clues to the real mystery (well...sadly...I can only characterize this material as clues to the existence of a real mystery---as its solution evades even we who are aware of it).

[Ishmael]

Examination of the open book on Margaret Roper's lap (right foreground) shows two pages of Seneca's Oedipus and that Margaret is pointing, unmistakably, to the word 'Oedipus'....Oedipus solved the riddle of the Sphinx and the name is sometimes given to persons good at solving puzzles.

Unmentioned by the author...



The Sphynx would appear to be seated at the feet of Thomas Moore, the conquered trampled by the conqueror.

[Ishmael]

The Web site has lots of valuable information concerning anomalies in the painting. Nevertheless, the author is clearly bat-shit crazy.

One must wade through paragraphs of nonsense to find one nugget of golden reason.

[Ishmael]

Who is Moore's fool?

Standing at ease in Holbein's sketch next to the young John More, and behind Cecily Heron, is a broad-countenanced man, in a frontal pose resembling the one often associated with Henry VIII.
-- Sir Thomas Moore's Fool

Unmentioned by this source: The pose in question is associated with Henry VIII in large measure due to the work of the very same artist who has here depicted the family of Thomas Moore. The pose of Moore's Fool is, in fact, the very mirror image to that of Holbein's portrait of Henry VIII. Surely the likeness of bearing is deliberate.

Especially considering the likeness of.....well....likeness!

[Hatty]

Could this be a self-portrait?

Hans Holbein

[Ishmael]

All variations on the same theme.

[Angus McOatup]

[Ishmael]

How is it that I associate Moore's Fool with Dionysus?

For now, that remains a secret.

However, I will point out that Moore's Fool shares yet another characteristic with Henry VIII.

Their names.

Moore's Fool was Henry.

Henry Patenson.

[Ishmael]