The Morningstar
12" x 24" Acrylic On Gallery Canvas
12" x 24" Acrylic On Gallery Canvas
The Morningstar
12" x 24" Acrylic On Gallery Canvas
12" x 24" Acrylic On Gallery Canvas
3,000 years ago, long before the arrival of a Christian Devil, the Morningstar was a Greek God and the Herald of the Morning.
He was the Son of Eos, Goddess of the Dawn in the ancient world.
-He was the constellation of bright Venus in the sky, and so was known as 'Phosphorus', or the Lightbringer (Lucifer in the Latin).
This planet, between the Sun and our Earth, is the brightest star in the sky and last to fade in each morning's light.
Hence the Morningstar came to be; the Herald to the Dawn and its brightest light.
-A friendly God for early-morning fisherman in the Mediterranean thousands of years ago, he was the torch-bearer and Lightbringer of the day.
I fancy myself as one of those fisherman in some far-away former life. I feel a connection to this Myth, as though in some distant past, I knew the Morningstar as a starting companion to my daily labors.
In the evening, (when Venus returns as the first star of the oncoming night), the constellation was known as a different God: Hesperus, the Evening Star, and a guiding light for early sailors in far away times.
As the Greek Gods faded with the onset of Christianity, Lucifer Morningstar was directly referenced for the first time in the book of Isaiah 14:12, written roughly in 700 BCE.
All of the Lightbringer's attributes were then absorbed into the idea of a fallen angel, cast out of heaven to become the proud spirit of scorn and wrath we now recognize as Satan, or the Devil in Christianity today.
-As the Greek Myth, he holds a simple glory of being the brightest star in the sky.
I prefer the Morningstar of the ancient Greeks, before the theft of his name. -He was really a much friendlier God back then.
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(This work is meant to be a pair within the series, with the forthcoming Evening Star.)
He was the Son of Eos, Goddess of the Dawn in the ancient world.
-He was the constellation of bright Venus in the sky, and so was known as 'Phosphorus', or the Lightbringer (Lucifer in the Latin).
This planet, between the Sun and our Earth, is the brightest star in the sky and last to fade in each morning's light.
Hence the Morningstar came to be; the Herald to the Dawn and its brightest light.
-A friendly God for early-morning fisherman in the Mediterranean thousands of years ago, he was the torch-bearer and Lightbringer of the day.
I fancy myself as one of those fisherman in some far-away former life. I feel a connection to this Myth, as though in some distant past, I knew the Morningstar as a starting companion to my daily labors.
In the evening, (when Venus returns as the first star of the oncoming night), the constellation was known as a different God: Hesperus, the Evening Star, and a guiding light for early sailors in far away times.
As the Greek Gods faded with the onset of Christianity, Lucifer Morningstar was directly referenced for the first time in the book of Isaiah 14:12, written roughly in 700 BCE.
All of the Lightbringer's attributes were then absorbed into the idea of a fallen angel, cast out of heaven to become the proud spirit of scorn and wrath we now recognize as Satan, or the Devil in Christianity today.
-As the Greek Myth, he holds a simple glory of being the brightest star in the sky.
I prefer the Morningstar of the ancient Greeks, before the theft of his name. -He was really a much friendlier God back then.
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(This work is meant to be a pair within the series, with the forthcoming Evening Star.)