IAO: Ophite Iconography by Jose Gabriel Alegría Sabogal zodiac gemsets Drawing upon ancient wisdom

Drawing upon ancient wisdom

By using the two images of the Blackthorn and the Whitethorn as exemplars of this perceived duality and through working with the Spirits

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IAO: Ophite Iconography by Jose Gabriel Alegría Sabogal zodiac gemsets Drawing upon ancient wisdomDescription IAO is an iconographic proposal, an attempt to illustrate the Gnostic worldview and its myths as understood by the Ophites, a sect of which little is known. It is, perhaps, an exercise of imagination, of what Christian iconography could have resembled if the Ophites had survived. Visually, it follows the sequences of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis and the Biblia Pauperum, reordering their contents according to this heterodox initiative.