I.
Camelot
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelot)
[c.f. XI. Medieval
period (middle ages)]
III.
Kept
womanàkeep a book/a journal
IV.
hooding ceremonyàbrotherhood, sisterhood, little red riding hood
I.
sin/
original sin (罪性=原罪) &sins (罪行)à Genesis
Garden of Eden (Adam & Eve)
A.
The
creation (Genesis 1:27) And God created man in His own image; in the image of God
He created him;
B.
The
fall (Genesis 3:1-7) The Serpent’s (Satan’s) temptation and Man’s first fall
* Man’s fall broke the
relationship between man and God so we need reconciliation with God. The reconciliation is fulfilled by
Jesus Christ’s crucifixion at
Calvary.
C.
Eternityà (Genesis 3:22-23) And Jehovah
God said, Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and
now, lest he put forth his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat and
live forever. Then Jehovah
God sent him forth from the garden of
Eden, to work the ground from which he was taken.
D.
Labor
à hard work &
childbearing
(Genesis 3:17-19) And
to Adam He said, because you listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten
of the tree concerning which I commanded you, saying, / You shall not eat of
it; Cursed is the ground because of you; / In toil will you eat of it / All the days of your life. /And
thorns and thistles will it bring forth for you, / And you will eat the herb of
the field; By the sweat of your face / You will eat bread / Until you return to the ground, / Because from it you
were taken; / For dust you are, / And to dust you shall return.
*daily bread, bread
winner
(Genesis 3:16) To the woman He said, I will greatly multiply / Your pain in your
childbearing; / In pain you will bring forth children. / And your
desire will be to your husband, / And he will rule over you.
*woman: within a man
II.
Pieta: The Pietà is a
masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture by Michelangelo
Buonarroti, housed in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican
City.
* The Serpent (Satan) – from four
legs to no leg (Genesis 3:14 And Jehovah God said to the serpent, Because you
have done this, / You are cursed more than all the cattle / And more than all
the animals of the field: / Upon your stomach you will go, / And dust
you will eat / All the days of your life.)
IV.
The
New Testament
A.
Baptize,
Baptism
*Salome: the daughter of Herodias [femme fatale(法)；fatal woman(英) àHelen]
B.
Crucifixion
of Jesus Christ at Calvary[Latin], Golgotha[Greek] or place of the skull；INRI [The
acronym INRI (Iēsus Nazarēnus,
Rēx Iūdaeōrum) represents the Latin inscription which in English reads as
"Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews" and John 19:20 states that
this was written in three languages: Hebrew, Latin and Greek during the
crucifixion of Jesus.]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifixion_of_Jesus] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus,_King_of_the_Jews]
Last supper (art) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Supper_(Leonardo_da_Vinci)]
D.
Communion
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communion_(Christian)]
Communion table [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communion_table]
E.
Icon
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon]
a.
Peter:
key of heaven
b.
Mary
Magdalene: long hair, crying, cloth, valuable pure nard
F.
The
wedding at Cana (John 2:1-11, especially verses 7-9) Jesus said to them, Fill the waterpots with water.
And they filled them up to the brim. And He said to them, Draw some out now and
take it to the master of the feast. And they took it to him. And when
the master of the feast tasted the
water which had become wine and did not know where it came from, though
the servants who had drawn the water knew, the master of the feast called the
bridegroom.
V.
St.
Francis of Assisi
A.
Stigma:
(1) Stigmata (singular stigma)
is a term used by members of the Christian faith to describe body marks, sores,
or sensations of pain in locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ, such as the hands,
wrists, and feet. (2) St. Francis
of Assisi was the first recorded stigmatic in Christian history. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmata]
B.
Pope
Francis [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis]
VI.
Ballad
[definition from NORTON: a verse narrative that is, or originally was, meant to
be sung. Characterized by repetition and often by a refrain (a
recurrent phrase or series of phrases), ballads were originally a folk creation, transmitted orally
from person to person and age to age. ]
A.
音樂性
B.
重複性
C.
故事性
VII.
Medieval
period (middle ages) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages]
A.
Knight,
King, Church
B.
Chivalry
(respect to Mary => respect to woman [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chivalry]
*The First Knight；Sir Lancelot/ Sir
Gawain