I am tattooed with them.
They symbolised the path of the ecliptic
to followers of the cult of Mithras.
Christians hate them
and still revel in the Judaic myth
of their abasement and expulsion
from a place that never was,
which soon the earth may be
thanks to the greatest
force for evil ever known,
whose scientific, humanist,
progress-worshipping offspring
are the awful power behind the throne.
Rabanus Maurus De rerum naturis.
Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 291, detail of folio 142r
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