It 's a church in the tenth century, situated in a village perched on a hill overlooking the Tuscan Maremma south-west the land slopes towards the sea.
Call read the interesting article by Claudia Cinquemani Dragons. Summarize a few words on the portal.
the center of the lintel is carved a cross license, and only two arms are forked. The right side has suffered a near Flower of Life. It 'a kind of lotus flower with six petals. The decorations are already in Egypt and the civilization of Ur, the Mycenaean culture, the Calabash of Guinea, in ancient China, among the Celts, coins and other objects in Etruscan and Phoenician stelae, as well as other examples of Romanesque sculpture. E ' one of the most common symbols in the churches of the Templars. Among these, the Duomo of Sovana, in a Church of Arcidosso and San Galgano.
The left side of the architrave is strangely unadorned, asymmetric. Shows only a zig-zag, whose element is very old, appearing as early as the Bronze Age pottery and culture Villanova, but also in Mexico and among the Dogon, Egypt.
A side of the jamb on the left is engraved with three circles. In all this is the element of quaternity. The first is the flower Apocalypse, the second is a glyph of the Earth, the third the Heavenly Jerusalem . When I visited, the average symbol had been clumsily covered by an intervention of consolidation.
It 's interesting to consider that these recordings could also have had practical function. It was important to know the astral stage for its development and could be used as sundials for orientation towards the Holy Land. Finding your way in the journey to Jerusalem the same way that the journey towards the Divine.
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