Thread by @Cryptographiste

#Eagle
#Aquila
#Nebula

Solar bird, the eagle combines the functions of light and fire.
He is both the king of birds and the bird of kings, the representative of their power and their might.

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#Eagle
#Aquila

Splitting the sky like lightning to attack his prey, he is the image of the terrible & punitive father: the ruthless king.
Since it is assured that he is able to look the sun in the face, he sees everything, is omniscient & omnipotent.

#Eagle
#Aquila

The double-headed eagle represents more precisely knowledge & augury, like Janus looking at the future & the past.

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#Aquila
► In alchemy, the eagle is a feminine solar principle, a symbol of sublimation.
The eagle devouring the lion is a representation of the action of the volatile on the fixed.
In addition, the Latin name of the eagle "Aquila" is related to the north wind "Aquilon".

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Christianity
► Symbol of resurrection, of the soon-to-be-baptized neophyte and of Christ by its flight and association with the sun. Sometimes represents, on the contrary, the abducting demon.

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► The eagle of St. John represents the word, the divine word. He warns the inhabitants of the Earth three times. Also, we often find lecterns carved with an eagle, supporting the book, containing said word of God.

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► The representation of the snake in the eagle's talons is a religious transposition into a mythical struggle where the zigzag of Zeus's eagle lightning became that of the snake.

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► In Proverbs 30:17, it is said that the eye that insults his father will be gouged out by the "ravens of the stream" and devoured by the "children of the eagle."