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>Iconographic portrayal of Astarte, very similar to that of Tanit, often depicts her naked and in presence of lions, identified respectively with symbols of sexuality and war. She is also depicted as winged, carrying the solar disk and the crescent moon as a headdress, and with her lions either lying prostrate to her feet or directly under those. Aside from the lion, Astarte is associated with the dove and the bee. She has also been associated with botanic wildlife like the palm tree and the lotus flower
>The Potnia Theron (Ancient Greek: Ἡ Πότνια Θηρῶν, romanized: Hē Pótnia Therón, lit.'The Lady of Animals', [hɛː pót.ni.a tʰɛː.rɔ̂ːn]) or Mistress of Animals is a widespread motif in ancient art from the Mediterranean world and the ancient Near East, showing a central human, or human-like, female figure who grasps two animals, one to each side
>The term is first used once by Homer as a descriptor of Artemis and often used to describe female divinities associated with animals
>Porphyry and Proclus, the lunar sphere marks the threshold between the noetic/supralunar world (of Forms and Intellects) and the sensible/sublunar world (of generation and corruption). The Moon functions as diadochus and diaphanon, transmitting the vital logoi (logoi spermatikoi) that structure the souls
>Plant and animal life emerges there before human life, since the inferior vital principles manifest themselves first in the sublunar world. This precedence explains why daimones and other mythological beings have hybrid or chimerical forms: they reflect the mixture and gradation of the vital powers that descend through the lunar sphere
>Proclus (in the Commentary on the Timaeus) emphasizes that it is in the lunar region that souls receive the ochema pneumatikon (subtle vehicle), a condition for animating bodies in the sensible world. Thus, biological life proceeds from lunar influences as intermediaries between the intelligible and the sensible
>Iconographic portrayal of Astarte, very similar to that of Tanit, often depicts her naked and in presence of lions, identified respectively with symbols of sexuality and war. She is also depicted as winged, carrying the solar disk and the crescent moon as a headdress, and with her lions either lying prostrate to her feet or directly under those. Aside from the lion, Astarte is associated with the dove and the bee. She has also been associated with botanic wildlife like the palm tree and the lotus flower
>The Potnia Theron (Ancient Greek: Ἡ Πότνια Θηρῶν, romanized: Hē Pótnia Therón, lit.'The Lady of Animals', [hɛː pót.ni.a tʰɛː.rɔ̂ːn]) or Mistress of Animals is a widespread motif in ancient art from the Mediterranean world and the ancient Near East, showing a central human, or human-like, female figure who grasps two animals, one to each side
>The term is first used once by Homer as a descriptor of Artemis and often used to describe female divinities associated with animals
>Porphyry and Proclus, the lunar sphere marks the threshold between the noetic/supralunar world (of Forms and Intellects) and the sensible/sublunar world (of generation and corruption). The Moon functions as diadochus and diaphanon, transmitting the vital logoi (logoi spermatikoi) that structure the souls
>Plant and animal life emerges there before human life, since the inferior vital principles manifest themselves first in the sublunar world. This precedence explains why daimones and other mythological beings have hybrid or chimerical forms: they reflect the mixture and gradation of the vital powers that descend through the lunar sphere
>Proclus (in the Commentary on the Timaeus) emphasizes that it is in the lunar region that souls receive the ochema pneumatikon (subtle vehicle), a condition for animating bodies in the sensible world. Thus, biological life proceeds from lunar influences as intermediaries between the intelligible and the sensible
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