21-01-2021, 12:17 AM
The example of the Wise Virgins who hold their oil lamps up, in contrast to the Foolish Virgins who hold their lamps down, reminds me of something else I found- "Cautes and Cautopates" are a pair of torch-bearers found in Mithraic icons. One always holds a torch pointing upwards, and the other holds a torch pointing down. They're usually found alongside the god Mithras slaying a bull and other associated imagery called the Tauroctony.
This is completely unrelated to the wise/foolish virgins imagery in context and meaning, but it shares the motif of "pairs of figures with one torch held up and the other held down."
This is completely unrelated to the wise/foolish virgins imagery in context and meaning, but it shares the motif of "pairs of figures with one torch held up and the other held down."
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