I return to the search for new evidence of the existence of the Four Aspects of Man, the knowledge of which was lost by people for many centuries. You ask, why am I doing this, because the topic has already been repeatedly raised on the pages of this site? First, the search piques my genuine interest. Second, it's amazing how much the same is all, regardless of cultures and continents. And thirdly, so that someday, nevertheless, that bright day will come when only a handful of uneducated fools who remained in the minority continued to dismiss the most obvious facts, while the rest of the reasonable majority followed the wise advice of the ancients "Know thyself!" all of humanity.
In the last correspondence that comes to us every day, it seemed to me, there was a link to thematic information. I am grateful for the hint, and I will start, perhaps, with the ancient secret of the Tyumen Orthodox male Holy Trinity Monastery in Russia, one of the first stone buildings in Siberia. Here it is, in the photo:
Today, inside the main church there is an ordinary iconostasis, but once an unusual three-faced icon hung here in a place of honor:
“The decree of the Tobolsk consistory of 1748 and 1770 to the Tyumen Monastery is characteristic, giving a picture of the decline of icon painting in the 18th century. Both of them interpret about the correction of obscene church icon painting, about the mixed-hypostatic image of the Holy Trinity, which has become a custom to paint with three faces and four eyes, therefore, according to the decree of the Holy Synod on June 11, 1764, it is prescribed that “strange and absurd obscenities (like EI V. in that 1764, in a campaign on the Volga from one merchant, the image depicting the Holy Trinity with 3 faces and 4 eyes in the likeness of the Greek gods was presented), all of course were suppressed “and therefore such an image that exists above the royal gates of the Trinity Church should be immediately displayed, or, if this causes damage to the iconostasis, then it will be rewritten to another image at the discretion of the prior."
Approx. E. I. V. - His Imperial Majesty. (Molodykh V. G. Materials for the history of icon painting and painting in Western Siberia // Notes of the Tyumen Society for Scientific Study of the Local Territory. Tyumen: Gostipografiya, 1924. S. 151-165.)
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From the text it is clear that once in Russia icons were very widespread and firmly rooted, leading the modern Christian into a complete stupor. Meanwhile, such three-faced images were given even to kings in the past. Despite the unfolding persecution and prohibitions, this image for several decades occupied an elite place above the royal gates of the main cathedral of Tyumen.
It turns out that these unusual three-faced images were characteristic of Western Europe in the 13-16 centuries as icon-painting images of the Holy Trinity. They were recognized as “heretical and blasphemous” in 1628 by Pope Urban the Eighth, despite that, gained popularity and “settled” in Russia. I will not repeat the inventions of religious historians and explanations of their orthodox dogma regarding the formula of "Father, Son and Holy Spirit" (or Holy Trinity), I will only say that these images were called "mixed hypostatic" and were banned in the 16th century. Cathedral of Trent, after which they began to be destroyed everywhere. And I will also say that it is strange for me personally, if this is the Holy Trinity, why should it be immediately “destroyed”?
A little more history:
The iconographic motif of the three-faced Trinity usually presupposes the image of Christ with combined images of his face in front and in a three-quarter turn to the right and left. It was first recorded in the murals of the vestibule of the Church of St. Clement in Ohrid (1295) and in the frescoes of the Montenegrin Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Matejča (around 1360). In Western Europe, it is known from the 15th to the 18th century, despite the repeated prohibitions of this image.
Is it really just the absence of artistic aestheticism of the image of the Holy Trinity, called an absurd obscenity, that one can explain the desire of the highest Christian clergy to eradicate this “three-faced oddity” from tradition? Or maybe the mixed-hypostatic images tell us something completely different, and they are miraculously surviving echoes of knowledge about the Four Aspects of man, which they tried to carry among the people through medieval Christian icon painting, like the AllatRa sign in the images of the Most Holy Theotokos and in the more ancient cult of the goddess Isis? We tried and carried it for a while, but in almost every article we unwittingly mention the same godless force, here and there skillfully and thoroughly out of sight, “cleaning up” spiritual knowledge from all over the planet Earth? I can't say for sure, but why not guess?
And let's look at these icons again:
Icon "Trinity" (mixed hypostatic). 1729 Unknown master from Tobolsk (Western Siberia). Until 1926 she was in the Novo-Tikhvinsky convent near Tobolsk, now - in the Sverdlovsk regional museum of local lore. Plank 31 × 24 × 2 cm, tempera, oil, frame lost. From the collection "Siberian Icon". Omsk, 1999.
Even more surprising is the image of the Trinity (mixed hypostatic) from the collection of the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore. The icon is dated 1729. Presumably, it was painted by a master from Tobolsk. The iconography of this icon, representing an image with three components of an indissoluble unity of heads, dates back to the god of the Gallo-Roman triad. In the Baroque era, the line between face and face was even more blurred. The gradual transformation on the icon of the medieval face into an individualized human face could diagnose serious changes in the system of value orientations, since it was always associated with the problem of the relationship between the sacred and the mundane in culture. The “dose” of the mundane in the system of baroque culture increased. The reason for this increase was a new attitude towards personality. Personality was now understood not ontologically,when the human essence was based on the image of God, but psychologically, as a spiritual individuality.
Unknown German artist of the early 17th century. Oil on canvas, 35.5 × 26 cm. Tyrolean Museum of Folk Art. Innsbruck, Austria.
According to unconfirmed reports, this fresco is located in Perugia (Umbria, Italy) in the church of St. Anastasia.
In Romania today.
Three-faced deity. Relief in the enthrvite of the inner colonnade of the chiostro (courtyard) of the Basilica of San Paolo fuori le mura in Rome. 1220-1230
From the collection of E. Roizman.
Director of the Anti-Religious Museum Sergei Kuzmin, 1941, Leningrad, St. Isaac's Cathedral.
A natural question may arise, where did I get the idea that mixed-hypostatic images are an indication of the Four Aspects of man, because they are three-faced? There is only one explanation, the images are displayed on a plane, while the four faces depicted on the plane will surely shock even a religious fanatic. Maybe it's really all about the plane, meanwhile, in a three-dimensional volume, for example, it may look like a four-faced "Buddha" found by fishermen in Transbaikalia, on the Onon River?
Let's take a look at three-faced and four-faced “divine” images from different religious cultures and corners of the world that have striking similarities, and once again think about what can be hidden under the human mask of diversity?
An unusual bas-relief, based on Hindu mythology, was found by Minsk diggers in the Slepyansk storm collector.
What is this, if not a mention of the notorious Four Human Essences …
… in ancient times, three-facedness was almost always depicted, implying four-facedness (the fourth invisible side), as evidenced, for example, by mythology and images of "gods" in ancient Indian civilization.
AllatRa p. 446.
To which we add a seal from the time of the Harappan civilization:
Author: Dato Gomarteli
