Eoghann wrote:RSLancastr wrote:utiful, thanks for sharing her with us!
What is she holding in her left hand (on our right)?
It looks like the symbol for Woman, but with a triangular head - and I'm not quite sure what to make of that...
Several of the courts are holding alchemy symbology in their hands. Not sure what this one represents.
Edit: looked it up. I think it's the alchemical symbol for sulphur.
I see - thanks!
chach wrote:So, in wine there is truth along with sulfur. Soooo, in wine there is truth, and it often stinks? Or are we talking about the sulfites that are used in wine making to prevent oxidation?
Or perhaps it is the truth in wine that prevents oxidation?
By the way, chach, your sig line (aka "el Guapo") always makes mr think of my first wife's father, a wonderful man known to all his grandchildren (and so, to his children and their spouses) as Papa.
Papa was at our house one night when we we all watched the film "
The Three Amigos" on television.
When the actor portraying the character in the film who was called "El Guapo" first came on screen, Papa - whose first language was Spanish - about fell out his chair laughing!
I do not speak Spanish, so he had to explain the joke to me:
For the other non-speakers-of-Spanish, the Spanish word
Guapo is an adjective roughly the equivalent tothe English slang words "hunky" or "studly", meaning very sexually attractive, in a masculine way ("
Guapa" is the feminine equivalent in Spanish). And, for a character to be named
El Guapo implies that he is the very
epitome of a hunk or stud.
So, when we finally see the man everyone has been referring to as "
El Guapo" in the film, only to find that he is this short, scruffy & stout middle-aged man, Papa found it absolutely hilarious.
A few years later, when I worked at a place where three of the other programmers referred to themselves, collectively, as "The Three Amigos", I insisted that they call me "
El Guapo", which made them laugh almost as much as Papa had when we had watched the the film that night.