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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 9542876, member: 5833"]She doesn't make it easy to see things, but her 'stones' - pretty sure they're glass - I think are copies of gnostic gems, some of them with Abraxas/Abrasax on them. Sounds like she was also seeing the inscription IAW (iota alpha omega), which was a way of writing Jahweh & often found on the reverse of mystical gems.</p><p><br /></p><p>The label on the Flemish carving suggests the writer understood the figure to be allegorical, but the cross points to a saint.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 9542876, member: 5833"]She doesn't make it easy to see things, but her 'stones' - pretty sure they're glass - I think are copies of gnostic gems, some of them with Abraxas/Abrasax on them. Sounds like she was also seeing the inscription IAW (iota alpha omega), which was a way of writing Jahweh & often found on the reverse of mystical gems. The label on the Flemish carving suggests the writer understood the figure to be allegorical, but the cross points to a saint.[/QUOTE]
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