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The Dragons that Almost Exist

By Jonathan Pageau on September 29, 2016
The Dragons that Almost Exist

Explaining the icon of St-George slaying the dragon to a 4 year old is amazing. Explaining the icon of St-George to a 10 year old is excruciating — “Yeah, but dragons don’t exist, do they?”. Do they? When someone tells you that dragons don’t exist or that monsters don’t exist, what is it they are […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged dragon, icono, iconography, Jonathan Pagaeu, monster, st-george September 29, 2016

Jonah – Resurrecting The Body and Saving The City

By Jonathan Pageau on May 23, 2014
Jonah - Resurrecting The Body and Saving The City

The icon of the Holy Prophet Jonah is one of the the most ancient images of Christianity. Like the story of this prophet, his image is a powerful symbol of death and resurrection. I want to look closely at the story of Jonah and its iconography because it brings together almost all the elements I […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged dragon, fish, garments of skin, hybrid, Icon, iconography, Jonah, Jonathan Pageau, sea-monster May 23, 2014

The Dog-Headed Icon of St-Christopher (pt.2): Encountering Saint-Christopher

By Jonathan Pageau on August 26, 2013
The Dog-Headed Icon of St-Christopher (pt.2): Encountering Saint-Christopher

This is post 2 of 2 in the series “The Dog Headed Icon of St-Christopher” In my last article on the dog-headed icon of St-Christopher, I promised to take the reader on an encounter with the Saint.  In order to do this, we must travel quite far from our main subject of iconography, but this […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged centaur, cherub, cherubim, cynocephali, cynocephalus, dog-headed, dragon, Ethiopian, fantasy, giant, heracles, hybrid, Icon, Jonathan Pageau, kerub, monster, Orthodox, satyr, sci-fi, st-christopher, st-christophoros, st-moses the black April 1, 2017

The Serpents of Orthodoxy

By Jonathan Pageau on April 18, 2013
The Serpents of Orthodoxy

One of the most surprising images one is faced with considering Orthodox liturgical symbolism is the bishop’s staff sporting two snakes flanking a small cross atop it.  Especially in a Protestant North American context, this image seems to hark back to ancient chthonian cults, more a wizard’s magic staff than anything Christian.  As I have […]

Posted in Liturgical Objects, Minor Arts, Theory | Tagged bronze serpent, crook, crosier, cross, crozier, crucifixion, dragon, dragons, fantasy, Jonathan Pageau, moses, nehuschtan, Orthodox, pageau, sci-fi, serpent, snake, staff, Symbolism July 14, 2014
 

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