Why Christian religion is repeating the Orphic faith and what is the secret of the forgotten frescoes in the Roman catacombs? What is the relation between the meander, the octagonal star and the deepest cave on the Balkans? And why the octagonal star are more than the crosses in Rome and the Vatican?
More Orphic traces
Orpheus playing on eight strings lyre, and over him it is written twice kavos. The photo is from the museum in Smolyan.
On Orpheus clothes, and only on his ones, numerous meanders are placed. The scene is depicted on a red crater, Ruovo, museum Zhatta.
Fresco sketch of St. Domitila catacomb in Rome. Orpheus is in the center of the octagon, surrounded by animals and legacy scenes. (photo from: Orpheus The Fisher, R. Eisler).
This is one of the sketches made by the Orpheus amulet, which disappeared in 1945 from Berlin. But the differences between it and the original image are significant. Including the keys at the base of the cross. In the original they look like a down arrow. (photo from: Orpheus The Fisher, R. Eisler).
Creature with a tail is standing on a rock, where usually Orpheus appears fishing. The theme is in the basics of the original Christian concept. Along the contour of the ceramic is depicted a stitch of eight points meanders and crosses with points for each quadrant. (photo from: Orpheus The Fisher).
Gold Orphic mask with eight points meanders, outlined by continuous signs for infinity. Contemporary eights.Historical Museum Varna.
Below Orpheus is depicted a band of octagonal meanders and equal armed crosses of 5 light and 4 dark squares. From: Hellenic Orphic Evidences.
