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Yn hoc signo uinces. Very old rendering.

TCP

Oh don't be such a Guy Tirade!

The Arizona version set with turquoise.

An astronomical interpretation of the Sephiroth.

Love the turquoise Tucson Crista image Renne. What an artist you are, literally.
And Madame, nice photo in your church.

Rennes, please DO NOT take photo's from my Facebook wall and post them on here without my permission, it's extremely discourteous. If i want to share my pictures with people other than on FB i will do so myself.

IHS logos.

Brotherhood of Nazarenos San Esteban, Spain.

Detail from the Armag Chalice, compare to the Crista.

The Blu Klux Klan!

TCP

The Mayan version of the serpent on the tree. Given that this cylinder vessel is from Guatemala, it is most likely a python.

Guy Tarade:
UNE ENIGME POUR LES PROFANES...UN MYSTERE POUR LES INITIES.

A La Brigue, un linteau de porte, situé au N° 24 de la rue Filippi,et datant de 1476, irrite depuis bien longtemps la sagacité des tenants du symbolisme. Cette superbe pièce gravée, nous a été signalée par feu le Père Benoît Avéna, un prêtre érudit qui décoda toutes les énigmes dissimulées avec soin, dans les fresques de la chapelle de Notre-Dame-des Fontaines.
Nous demandons à tous nos amis de plancher sur cette archive unique, et de nous donner leurs impressions après l'avoir analysée.

I'm wondering if this is a hangover from dodgy typsetting. Obviously carved type isn't typeset, but i wonder if illiterate stonemasons made mistakes by using paper based type to copy from, which may of been set badly. I know, i've done it myself, and it can be difficult to spot until printed. Add to that the fact that spelling wasn't really standardised until the 18th century, so anything may of been considered acceptable. Just a thought.

Unfortunately my Latin is non existent, despite being forced to class all those years ago. I can see what you mean with the QU, possibly a space saving device by the stone mason, after all, that's a lot of text for a lintel! I did try to put it through Photoshop to see if inversion could make the letters a bit clearer, but alas, no.

Thank you so much for your translation! That would make sense, a water source that had disappeared and

returned would be a sort of miracle worth commemorating. Sheila, I hope that you were able to see the deleted photo

from Madame IBJ, I thought it would interest you. Crow, I know you were warned about posting pix on the forum, but

really there is no reason not to - you have a lot to contribute.

Multiple quakes hit N. Italy today, I wonder whether any springs of water went missing.

Do you have friends in this area?



I know that Leonardo Da Vinci worked in N. Italy producing his war machine designs.

Hi Sheila, from your translation it reads to me as though the person "taking" the water should donate what they believe it is worth, however cheekily suggesting that "you will only be blessed according to what you've given".
If it was a religious/holy water, perhaps by law they could only ask for donations, so to get more cash in they grade the forgiveness/blessing on the amount donated.
A bit like Sauniere's masses by post or church collection plates ???
I'm purely guessing and I haven't checked the translation as my Latin is non-existent ( school stopped teaching it the year before my GCSE's )
Regards
Nic

Hi Sheila, hope your motivation comes back soon. Someone must have done Latin here and I've never tried an online translator from Latin but there must be one? I'll have a look tomorrow as I'm bogged down with work at the mo.
Regards
Nic

There is such a tradition of sacred springs in France, Notre Dame de Marceille is famous for their fountain.
I like your translation Sheila, sorry the drawing was off.


From Roscoe: How's this particular French/Occitan Speaker sound to you?

"Within a little distance, to the top of the slope broadside of green trees leading to the sanctuary, a fountain drops drop by drop its limpid water in a basin of marble. With the help of large rains, the continuous water drop to fall with uniformity and times of great dryness do not tare it. The innumerable Christians who will pay homage to the Blessed Virgin, stop one moment with the fountain, and after having made a prayer, some drops of this water draw of which they wet their eyelids.

Why do they act thus? The majority are unaware of it; but the mother teaches with her sons, and those transmit to their children the pious practice of use with the fountain of Our Lady of Marceille. Thus the fountain is indicated; the old chroniclers, however, knew it under the name of fountain of Our-Lady of Marsilla. At the time of the occupation first of Gaules,"

This particular French Speaker is one:

Abbe Henri Boudet

The book

La Vraie Langue Celtique et Le Cromleck de Rennes-les-Bains.

Sheila how can you hope to translate this if you have no idea what the original text is?

Seems to me your version above bears only a faint resemblance to what is in the carved text.

For instance, where is the "u" in the carved text that you have in your first "qui"?

Ditto the "q" or "u" in "aqua"?

Here is a higher resolution image of the carved text -

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... gue%29.jpg

I'm not sure if the second letter is an "m".

If you look closely at that high resolution image, the second character looks like staff with a hook at the top followed by a "n" or a "u".

Looking at the letters already represented in the text, the one that is not used is a "g". The hooked staff could be a "g" which would make the first few characters:

S I G N I.

This is the latin plural of "signum" strictly meaning "signal, standard". It might be loosely translated as "signs".

Well I'll ask the question YET AGAIN after asking it for dozens of time now.

"What has any of this got to do with Sauniere or Rennes le Chateau?"

If you continue to polute this section called RENNES LE CHATEAU with this utter garbage then surely first you have to justify you being here and answer the very very simple answer

"What has any of this got to with the section you are swamping?"

Look all you have to do is tell Andrew to make a new section for you and you can all go dancing down the blind alley on your own and not bother any of us who are not the slightest bit interested in this fabricated garbage.

Damn right I don't understand it that's because nobody is saying anything about it and it annoys me because nothing else can get a word in edgeways.

I wouldn't mind so much if just one person, anyone, explained to me the Rennes le Chateau connection.

But I'm guessing now that nobody does this because they don't know the answer to this very simple question.

Gosh Latin on the France/Italian border. Well I never?

RENNES LE CHATEAU?

Got any answers Luv?

If not start your own section called:

CRISTA

and leave us alone.

read my signature

Yep, thought so.

All one has to do is ask a direct question and they clam up immediately.

You get more like Roger every day.

Go on redeem yourself

Tell me what this has to do with Rennes le Chateau?