Stag and unicorn, Figure 3 from "Alchymistica", 17th/18th century document found in Benedictine Abbey Admont, Austria...
"The Sages say truly
That two animals are in this forest..."
"...One glorious, beautiful, and swift,
A great and strong deer;
The other an unicorn.
They are concealed in the forest,
But happy shall that man be called
Who shall snare and capture them..."
"...The Masters shew you here clearly
That in all places
These two animals wander about in forests
(But know that the forest is but one)..."
"...If we apply the parable to our Art,
We shall call the forest the Body.
That will be rightly and truly said.
The unicorn will be the Spirit at all times.
The deer desires no other name
But that of the Soul; which name no man shall take away from it..."
"...He that knows how to tame and master them by Art,
To couple them together,
And to lead them in and out of the forest,
May justly be called a Master..."
"...For we rightly judge
That he has attained the golden flesh,
And may triumph everywhere;
Nay, he may bear rule over great Augustus."
From "Book Of Lambspring" by Nicholas Barnaud Delphinas...
Let's test my "Art" on this...
Deer and unicorn, in "the same" forest, surrounded by "fiery ouroboros"...What does this mean?
The true meaning of a unicorn is easy to decipher if we know that they are white horses, and if we know that horse is one of the most widespread solar symbols...
I talked about Horse (Equid) as a solar symbol in many of my posts:
Iran "Water carrier equid", "Dioscuri plate from Iran"
Mesopotamia "Shamash playing with the solar horse", "Sun god from Tell Brak"
India "Hayagriva"
China "Longma", "Three legged crow", "Mythical beast from Xian"
Levant "Alexamenos graffito", "Goddess on a horse", "Unicorn"
Europe "Archaic rider", "Beotian solar pyxis", "Pegasus and chimera", "King John", "The horseman", "Artemis Orthia"...
Horse is a solar symbol cause wild equid mating season, characterised by wild stallion fights, starts in Apr/May, at the beginning of summer, and ends in Sep/Oct...Equid fertility is governed by the sunlight, and peaks on summer solstice...
BTW, Unicorn horn is described as "being cubit and a half (28 inches) in length". Erect horse's penis length 🙂 is max 28 inches...
I talked about Unicorns as animal calendar markers in my posts "Reem" and "Unicorn"...
What about the deer? Deer with fully grown antlers is a symbol of winter, because antlers become fully grown just before deer rut (Sep/Oct/Nov) and fall off just before beginning of summer, Apr/May...
So basically, unicorn=horny horse and deer are two animal calendar markers marking summer and winter. Two (opposite) halves of the same solar year (forrest)...Talked about it in my post "White stag":
"As for the White Roebuck [Stag], how many kings in how many fairy tales have not chased this beast through enchanted forests and been cheated of their quarry?"
That we are here looking at solar year calendar markers is confirmed by the fact that deer and unicorn are framed by the Ouroboros.
The true meaning of the Ouroboros, "The serpent biting it's tail", is easy to decipher if we know that snake is a pure solar animal. It is in our world when sun is here (day, hot half of the year) and it is in the underworld when sun is there (night, cold half of the year)...
I talked about this in many of my posts...
Basically Ouroboros represents the ever spinning the solar wheel...the ever changing seasons: Spring-Summer-Autumn-Winter-Spring...the ever changing temperature of the sun and earth in continental parts of the northern hemisphere...
It is symbolic equivalent of this:
You know that Yin-Yang symbol is imagined as constantly spinning, ever changing? I talked about this in my post "Yin and Yang"...
"He that knows how to tame and master [deer and unicorn], To couple them together...May justly be called a Master..."
He who knows the true meaning of Stag and Unicorn and how they are linked, and who knows how to use them...May justly be called a Master?
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