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MURTIS OF ASCLEPIUS 2

Fri, 4 Apr 2003 12:21:14 -0800

THE SUPREME GOD OF THE HELIOPOLITAN MONOTHEISTS LIKE SOCRATES AND PLATO WAS

KOUROS HELIOS (APOLLO / GOPALA), WHO WAS WORSHIPED AT DELPHI WITH HIS

ALTER-FORM AND 'OLDER BROTHER' KOUROS DIONYSOS. THE MAIN SANCTUARY AND

LITURGICAL YEAR THERE WAS DIVIDED BETWEEN THEM. BOTH LED THE SACRED KYKLOS /

CAKRA CIRCLE 'CHORUS' DANCE WITH THE KORAE COW-HERD MAIDENS, AND REVELED IN

SINGING AND DANCING WITH THE KOUROI, THE COW HERD BOYS (THEIR EXPANSIONS).

THEY WERE BOTH THE 'MEGHISTOS KOUROS' OR THE 'GREATEST OF YOUTHS'.

HELIOS-CENTRIC SOCIAL ORDER REVOLVED AROUND YEARLY FRATERNAL AND SISTERLY

SOCIAL RE-ENACTMENT OF THE ROMANTIC AND HEROIC EXPLOITS OF HELIOS AND DIONYSOS

AND THEIR KORAE AND KOUROI GIRLFRIENDS AND BOYFRIENDS.

 

FIRST AMONG THE KORE MAIDENS WAS RHODA, RADHA / ROSE, WHO WAS ALSO CALLED

NYMPHIA MEANING VIRGIN OR LOTUS / PADME, AND ASTERIA MEANING STAR / TARA ! OF

COURSE THESE ARE NAMES OF KRISHNA-VISHNU'S SHAKTI, AND OF MARY IN CATHOLIC

BRIDAL MYSTICISM. MARY IS THE EVER MAIDEN KORE, VIRGINAL NYMPHIA, THE

FLEUR-DE-LI IS HER SYMBOL (EARLIER IN EGYPT A REFLECTED WATER LILLY

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). SHE IS THE MYSTICAL ROSE AND STELLA MARIS, THE 'STAR OF THE SEA'. AS THE

MOTHER OF ASCLEPIUS SHE IS CORONIS OR HARINI. AS MARY THE MOTHER OF JESUS /

IASAS SHE IS NARI, ALSO CALLED MARIAM / NARAYANI.

 

DIONYSOS WAS ALSO ASSOCIATED WITH ASCLEPIUS, WHO WAS THE SECOND PERSON /

ALTER-FORM OF HELIOS, INCARNATE AS HIS OWN SON...THE SAVIOR OF ALL THOSE

SUBJECT TO BIRTH, DEATH, DISEASE AND OLD AGE. ASCLEPIUS WAS WORSHIPED IN

THREE FORMS. HE WAS WORSHIPED IN A THERAMORPHIC SERPENT FORM AS HIS SACRED

HEBREW / JEWISH AND EGYPTIAN SERAPH (SARPA IN SANSKRIT), AS AS HIS BEAUTIFUL

MEGHISTOS KOUROS YOUTH FORM, AND AS HIS MATURE BEARDED 'JESUS' OR CARAKA THE

GREAT PHYSICIAN FORM. IN INDIA, SRI BALADEVA IN HIS ANANTA SESHA NAGA SERPENT

FORM IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE AYUR VEDIC SCIENCE OF MEDICINE AND HIS HIDDEN

INCARNATION AS THE WANDERING HEALER CARAKA ! IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION THE

WORSHIP OF BALADEVA AS CARAKA (ASCLEPIUS) WAS EXTREMELY POPULAR. IN FACT, IT

WAS THE SINGULARLY MOST IMPORTANT DEVOTIONAL CULTUS IN THE CENTURIES JUST

BEFORE THE ADVENT OF JESUS CHRIST. WITHIN 100 YEARS OF THE LIFE OF JESUS

(IASAS ASCLEPIUS...BALADEVA AS YASHAS), THE ANCIENT GREAT PHYSICIAN TRADITION

HAD EVOLVED INTO CATHOLICISM. THE MAIN CENTER OF ASCLEPIUS WORSHIP AT THE

SERAPEUM IN ALEXANDRIA EGYPT, BECAME THE MAIN CENTER OF JESUS-THE-SON-OF-GOD

AND WORLD-SAVIOR THEOLOGY FOR THE EGYPTO-AFRICAN RITES OF CATHOLICISM.

 

THE WORSHIP OF IASAS ASCLEPIUS (JESUS) IN HIS MATURE BEARDED FORM CONTINUED TO

BE THE MOST PROMINENT, WITH HIS YOUTHFUL LOVER FORM PRESERVED MAINLY IN HIS

BRIDAL MYSTICISM CULTS. THE YOUTHFUL MEGHISTOS KOUROS FORMS OF JESUS WERE

FREQUENTLY DEPICTED IN A PASTORAL SETTING. HE WAS A COW HERDER OR SHEEP

HERDER. THUS THE UNBEARDED 'GOOD SHEPHERD' AND THE BEARDED 'GREAT PHYSICIAN'

TRADITIONS OF JESUS ARE THOSE OF BALADEVA GOPALA AND BALADEVA CARAKA

RESPECTIVELY. AS THE COSMIC SACRIFICE WHO HAS RAISED THE DEAD AND RANSOMED

THEM FROM HELL WITH HIS OWN LIFE, ASCLEPIUS IS THE HIEROPHANT MASTER JESUS OR

BALADEVA AS THE ORIGINAL SPIRITUAL MASTER AND COSMIC PURUSHA OF THE RIG VEDIC

PURUSHA SUKTA HYMN. BECAUSE THE YUPA CROSS, POST OR STAKE (AXIS MUNDI) OF HIS

COSMIC INTERCESSORY SACRIFICE IS HIS ETERNAL EMPBLEM, HE IS CALLED YAGNA

PURUSHA OR YUPA DHVAJA. THE YUPA OR INSTRUMENT OF HIS INTERCESSORY

SELF-SACRIFICE IS THE EMBLEM OR HERALDIC DEVISE OF HIS GIFT OF UNIVERSAL

SALVATION.

 

http://clawww.lmu.edu/faculty/fjust/Rome/asc10-12.jpg ASCLEPIUS KOUROS

(BEAUTIFUL YOUTHFUL 'LOVER' FORM)

 

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http://clawww.lmu.edu/faculty/fjust/Asclepius.htm

Ancient Rome: Images and Pictures photos by Prof. Felix Just, S.J. - Loyola Marymount University

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Statues and Temples of Asclepius, the Ancient Roman Healing God (click on any

picture below to see a larger image) Note: New Statue in #8a-f below

Small Asclepius -- Vatican Museum, Braccio Chiaromonti, section 50, #12

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#4#1 - Small Asclepius statue (on left) in Vatican Museum, Braccio Chiaromonti,

section 50, #12. #2 - Closer view of same statue; note the snake wraps up the

staff counter-clockwise here. #3 - Same; note the round object (?) in the left

hand; note also the long hair and rather old-looking face. #4 - Close-up of the

inscription on the base of same statue.

Medium-Sized Asclepius -- Vatican Museum, Braccio Chiaromonti, section 24, #5

#5

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#8#5 - Medium-sized statue (on right) of bearded Asclepius -- Vatican Museum,

Braccio Chiaromonti, section 24, #5. #6 - Closer view (the marble base is

unrelated to the statue). #7 - Close-up of the face; note slightly younger face

than the statue of photos # 1-4 above. #8 - Close-up side view of head; note

also the long curly hair and headband.

NOTE: Photos #5-8 above were taken in March 1994. By June 1999 this statue and

base had been replaced by a different statue of Asclepius and a new pedestal

that does have inscription dedicated to Asclepius (photos #8a-f below):

 

 

 

 

 

 

#8a

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#8f

Large Asclepius -- Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples; originally on Tiber Island, Rome

#9

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#13#9 - Large statue of a bearded Asclepius; now in the Museo Archeologico

Nazionale, Naples; originally on the Tiber Island, Rome. #10 - Full-body view;

in March 1994 this statue was on a pallette in a temporary corner spot during

museum renovations. #11 - Close-up of the head; note again the curly hair and

head-band, and the slightly younger face than the two statues above. #12 -

Close-up of the snake heading up the staff; note it does not circle the staff

here. #13 - Two busts of unidentified gods, possibly Asclepius -- Museo

Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.

Large Beardless Asclepius -- Vatican Museum, Braccio Nuovo, # 17

 

 

 

 

 

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#14 - Placement of the large Asclepius statue in the "Braccio Nuovo" hallway of

the Vatican Museum. #15 - Same statue; note the young, beardless face in

contrast to most other surviving statues showing a bearded Asclepius. #16 -

Same statue; note the sandals and beehive-like object at the feet, similar to

the statue of Asclepius in Naples (#9-12 above). #17 - Close-up of the snake;

note it is larger and freer from the staff than most other Asclepius statues.

#18 - Close-up of the upper body and face; note the toga folds very similar to

the Naples statue (#9-12 above).

Fontana d'Esculapio in the Borghese Gardens, Rome

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#22#19 - The Fountain of Asclepius, with an ancient Roman Asclepius statue --

Viale Washington, Borghese Gardens, Rome. #20 - Close-up of the second-century

Roman Asclepius statue in the Fontana d'Esculapio. #21 - Same; note the badly

damaged snake. #22 - Nearby sign-post at the top of the modern "Viale

Esculapio" -- Borghese Gardens, Rome

Asclepius Temple Replica in the Borghese Gardens, Rome

#23

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#27#23 -19th century replica of a Temple and statue of Asclepius; on the main

pond in the Borghese Gardens, Rome. #24 - Closer view of the same temple and

statue. #25 - Close-up of the frieze; seems to depict the legend of the

serpent's arrival in Rome. #26 - Even closer view (as close as my 35/200

telephoto lens could reach across the pond). #27 - View of the back of the

statue.

Rome: Main Page

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions? E-mail me at fjust (AT) lmu (DOT) edu This page was

last updated on 1/27/02 1999-2001 by Felix Just, S.J.

 

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