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The Two Aphrodites

Αφροδίτη Ουρανία vs Πάνδημος*

All that I have erected shall go derelict and humbled

And the ray will strike and permeate all within the ivory tower, turris eburnea**

Hunt of the Unicorn Annunciation (ca. 1500) from a Netherlandish Book of Hours. In this example, Gideon's fleece is worked in as well, and the altar at the rear has Aaron's rod that miraculously flowered in the centre. Both are types for the Annunciation

from the Vulgate Bible's Canticle of Canticles (also called the Song of Songs or Song of Solomon) 4:12, in Latin:

"Hortus conclusus soror mea, sponsa, hortus conclusus, fons signatus"

("A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed up.")

Origin at Argos

Perseus was the son of Zeus and Danaë, the daughter of Acrisius, King of Argos. Disappointed by his lack of luck in having a son, Acrisius consulted the oracle at Delphi, who warned him that he would one day be killed by his daughter's son. In order to keep Danaë childless, Acrisius imprisoned her in a bronze chamber, open to the sky, in the courtyard of his palace: This mytheme is also connected to Ares, Oenopion, Eurystheus, and others. Zeus came to her in the form of a shower of gold, and impregnated her. Soon after, their child was born; Perseus — "Perseus Eurymedon, for his mother gave him this name as well" (Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica IV).

Fearful for his future, but unwilling to provoke the wrath of the gods by killing the offspring of Zeus and his daughter, Acrisius cast the two into the sea in a wooden chest. Danaë's fearful prayer, made while afloat in the darkness, has been expressed by the poet Simonides of Ceos. Mother and child washed ashore on the island of Seriphos, where they were taken in by the fisherman Dictys ("fishing net"), who raised the boy to manhood. The brother of Dictys was Polydectes ("he who receives/welcomes many"), the king of the island. 

XVI La Maison Dieu (14​/​01​/​15)  de l’album Arcanos par Felipe Zenicola

* "common to all the people" in opposition to Aphrodite Urania, or "the heavenly Aphrodite" [Plato, Symposium 180d; Lucret. iv. 1067]

** An ivory tower is a metaphorical place — or an atmosphere — where people are happily cut off from the rest of the world in favour of their own pursuits, usually mental and esoteric ones.

From the 19th century, it has been used to designate an environment of intellectual pursuit disconnected from the practical concerns of everyday life. Most contemporary uses of the term refer to academia or the college and university systems in many countries

Revelation 16:15 English Standard Version (ESV)

15 (“Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!”)

2 Peter 3:10 English Standard Version (ESV)

10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.

1 Thessalonians 5:4 English Standard Version (ESV)

4 But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief.

1 Thessalonians 5:2 English Standard Version (ESV)

2 For you, yourselves, are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

Matthew 24:43 English Standard Version (ESV)

43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.