Matamoros statue in Logrono

[Rolf Gunnar Rolfsson]

...and the sun horse's equipment has a scary effect on
the 'knightmares'... when the saints come riding in...
and that is why they are called 'scary little things'!


And it is for sure, that the spirited stallions are
known as knight's horses, and they come with white
wings of angelic magnificence. Compare them to the
golden wings of the eagle.

I am sure you will find an eagle there as well.
Perhaps not in the shape of a griffin, since that
symbol is rare in church art... Even though lion and
eagle are to be found amongst bull and angel in
Christian art.

The snake is missing in Christian art, for some
strange reason, except in Paradise, and still it is
often to be found in pre Christian art. Actually I
have just finished painting the back side of the
Jelling stone (Viking and Celtic), where the lion
struggles the snake, and the color choice is the same
in the lion and the snake, to show that the lion and
the snake are different aspects of the same
principle... compared to the metamorphose of the
griffin, being both lion and eagle!

Rolf Gunnar Rolfsson


 --- Jen Seeler <jeandaveaMINDSPRING.COM> skrev: > If
there is any question as to the gender of
> Santiago Matamoros' horse, check out the statue
> above the side door  of the Church of Santiago El
> Real in Logrono.  As Milan Bravo Lozano writes the
> saint is "mounted on a spirited stallion..."  In the
> main square of Logrono is an equestrian statue,
> where the horse is not so well "equipped."    :)
>
>    jean seeler
>
>

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