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The so called ‘skeleton mosaic’ was discovered in April 2016 in Antakya (the former Antioch), south of Türkiye. The archeologists gave surface explanations about their finding, some of them can be found below via the links we share. In this post we publish some other images and text sources to suggest that there is probably more to their claim. We live in an epoch were so much knowledge is lost in many ways. We have a duty to remember and keep alive the wisdom transmitted by our ancestors.

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The first image is from a mural fresco in Italy-Pompei, now in display at the Naples Museum. We see the Apprentice, the right arm, forming a set-square, placed over the head. The centaur, wearing the Master’s sash and Pythia putting two fingers of her right hand upon her lips.

The second image represents an archaic ivory Apollo who also puts his right arm, not on his heart, but on his head. This is for us to remember the priority of Reason over the emotions, because Wisdom (Athena), mother of every righteous thought, was born from the very brain of Zeus, her eternal father.’ (Picture 1 and 2 from Jean Mallinger’s ‘Des Initiations antiques aux initiation modernes’. Planquart, 1980.)

The third image is showing the birth of Athena, as in Maier’s ‘Atalanta Fugiens’, emblem XXIII.

The fourth represent PAN in his Samothracian cabiric role also doing the sign. From a Sicilian vase in Ouvaroff’s ‘Essay on the Eleusinian Mysteries’. London, 1817.

The other images are from the Antakya recent find. For us this looks probably like a ‘drawing board’ of a kind of Pythagorean or similar ‘ancient mysteries’ loge. Looking at the details we see the outside ropes forming ‘love lakes’ (infinity sign), the rectangle frame of the mosaic, also called ‘long square’ and finally the sentences, more like ‘theorems’ for the initiates contemplation about virtues and archetypal ideas in the Platonistic sense.

ΕΥΦΡΟΣΥΝΟΣ (Euphrosunos), meaning joy, gladness, rejoicing.

ΤΡΕΧΕΔΕΙΠΝΟΣ (TRECHEDEIPNOS) meaning ‘The one who runs to a banquet even though he has work to do’. Reminds us of a Louis Cattiaux quote in the ‘Message Rediscovered’:

‘It is not the host that shall be deprived, but in fact the guests that voluntary abstain.
– As regards he who is charged with announcing the feast of the holy union, he shall benefit with his friends from the absentees’ part.

Their lot shall be formidable and as though absurd, for outside there will be then hunger, suffering, desperation and death, and no one shall be able to close the gates of hell, and no one shall be able to open the gate of heaven.’ ‘Message Rediscovered’, chapter XV, paragraph 45 and 46, 45′ and 46′.

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Source

Media articles:

here , here

and here

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Gratitude to

Chrysovalantis Renos Tampakakis

for the translation

from the Greek.

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