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Protector

Painting elements:
Archangels guarding the Ark of the Covenant, Sword of God, pan Middle Eastern hand of protection, Ganesha holds a Native American Bear protector totem and wears the modern angel icon Superman's Shirt.

Roof Panel Elements:Protector, comfort, safety, recurring events, protection, the celebration and worship of gods.

Roof 1: Calendar. Framed by Utu for summer and spring, Nanna Suen as Lunar or darkness. Seasons as natural regenerative cycles. Four ideals from agrarian civilization: Planting, First Harvest, Second Harvest and Winter (Yule). Vernal Equinox, Summer Solstice, Autumnal Equinox and Winter Solstice. Easy Fertility Festivals for planting, Christ is risen, Purim, Emesh (Sumerian god of agriculture) Asuru (from Osirus) regeneration, Beltaine after Imbolc and Ostara 1/2 way between spring and midsummer, Mawlid al-Nabi - birthday of Muhammad, VisakhaPuja (Buddah's Birth), June as wedding month, good ties, fertility, midsummer night's dream, joviality of a good harvest, almost civilization of good and plenty. Sun season ends, framed with Sol and Utu into the Second Harvest, Nag Panchami, Shiva's love of serpents, warmth. Yom Ha-Zikkaron or Rosh Hashanah, blowing of the shofar, new year beginning with the fall of the sun, Lunar, Tashritu Babylonian new year, Lunar into Yom Kippur atonement, All Hallows Eve, the dead close to the earth, grain stocks either intact or running out, Nativity for Christians, birth of the savior, birth of Ganesha GANESH CHATURTHI, Deepawali, festival of lights, end of the cycle the Haijj, Christmas, Chanukah Festival of lights, light in the dark of winter. Always darkest before the dawn. Into the Spring and planting again.

Roof 2: John Allegro, The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross. The consecration of male and female parts to create the rain and fertility that keeps the crops growing. Cuneiform for womb and penis. Seed of life, (Greek and Sumerian) Paeoney, "sac of fecundity" and the Bacchus wand, (Hebrew) Love- Make - Create, All Life Comes from Blood, Menses, Spittle, Yeats, Crazy Jane "Nothing Can be Sole or Whole, that has not been rent" (Torn). Concept of semen raining down, rain to make the mushrooms grow, the sacrament, the mythical element (elemental water from air).

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