Symbols - What does heaven look like
Shepherd
Synonymous with psychopomp. Added meaning is provided by the fact a Shepherd normally looks after Sheep. Their badge of office is the Shepherd's crook. In religious terms, when the split between the shamanic magical religions and the moral based religions took place, the Shepherd traditionally became a moral leader because he protected his 'flock' from shamanic influence - the wolf and the fox.
The shepherd is the conductor of souls to the land of the dead – the psychopomp and a symbol of supreme power
We have given a more general meaning to the expression 'a wolf in sheep's clothing', but in its original form it meant a person who had once followed traditional shamanic beliefs, had appeared to have converted to the moral based religions, but who hadn't. Instead the pretence was given of conversion, but 'sheep's clothing' was worn to ensure that their work amongst the flock to keep the old ideas alive, passed unnoticed. Simon Magus was a wolf in sheep's clothing [who failed].
Observations
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- Böcklin, Arnold - Faun whistling to a Blackbird 1875
- Cohen, Leonard - Going home
- Genesis 04 - Cain and Abel
- Ibn El-Arabi - The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq - At Dhú Salam and the monastery
- Little Bo-Peep
- Matthew 10
- Mesopotamian - Means of achieving spiritual experience 06 LOVE and Unrequited love
- Michelangelo - 1534 Sistine Chapel - 03 Last Judgement
- Moses - Exodus 3 - The Burning bush
- Nuremberg Chronicle - Wolf Man
- Psalm 23
- Ptolemy after 150 AD - Boötes
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – The Spinning of the Shepherd
- Sacred geography – Picts – Wheelhouses 01
- Saint Brendan - 08 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Saint Brendan - from a 15th century manuscript
- Shah, Idries – The Sufis - QSS and Alif Ba Lam
- Symbols – Picts – Sacred site - Trefoiled cross [Wheelhouse]
- The Book of Taliesin - Buarch Beird - Llyfr Taliesin III
- The Book of Taliesin - The Battle Of the Trees - 08
- The Healing Wisdom of Birds – Lesley Morris - The pantomimic dance of the Armenian araghil
- Tranströmer, Tomas - The Man awakened by a Song above his Roof