The compass and square, the cornucopia, the triple tau, the cube, the hexagram, the winged-hourglass with scythe, and the 'Called from Labor' image:

1. The compass and square looks suspiciously like the Seal of Saturn.
2. Cornucopia: "The cornucopia became the attribute of several Greek and Roman deities, particularly those associated with the harvest..." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornucopia
   
   "In Athens, on the twelfth day of the Attic month of Hekatombaion, a festival called Kronia was held in honour of Cronus to celebrate the harvest, suggesting that, as a result of his association with the virtuous Golden Age, Cronus continued to preside as a patron of harvest. Cronus was also identified in classical antiquity with the Roman deity Saturn." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronus
   
   
3. Hexagram: "The six-pointed star is commonly used both as a talisman and for conjuring spirits and spiritual forces in divers forms occult magic. In the book The History and Practice of Magic, Vol. 2, the six-pointed star is called the talisman of Saturn and it is also referred to as the Seal of Solomon. Details are given in this book on how to make these symbols and the materials to use." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagram
   
   
4. The triple tau: "The Tau or Tav means “cross,” and is the final letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It is numbered 300 in the Greek and 400 in the Hebrew numerical alphabet. The tau corresponds astrologically with the planet Saturn and the concept of finality. The mark was associated with the absolution of sin and may have been the original “mark of Cain” of the Old Testament." - http://symboldictionary.net/?p=2047
   
   "Tav (Saturn) - Center or Holy of Holies." - Kevin Townley, The Cube of Space: Container of Creation, p. 20.
   
   "[The Triple Tau] signifies also T. H., Templum Hierosolym, the Temple of Jerusalem, and when used as the Royal Arch symbol, some jurisdictions teach that the wearer acknowledges himself a servant of God." - http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/symbolism/triple_tau.html
   
   "TEMPLUM HIEROSOLYMAE: Latin for the Temple of Jerusalem. It is supposed by some to be a phrase concealed under the monogram of the Triple Tau, which see. - Source: Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry" - - http://www.masonicdictionary.com/templum.html
   
   
   
   
5. The cube: "It takes 9 months for the gestation of a human fetus. It takes 9 years and 9 months for Saturn to complete 1/3 of its journey around the heavens. On the Tree of Life, the 9th sphere is the sphere of the Moon and is called "The Foundation." The Magic Square of Saturn is the foundation of the manifested universe and, hence, the Cube." - Kevin Townley, The Cube of Space: Container of Creation, pg. 49.
   
   "...the twelve signs of the zodiac. These twelve signs are the twelve lines that define the boundaries of the cube.
   "The six faces are bounded by six of the seven sacred planets known to the ancients. The seventh planet, Saturn, rests at the center. All of these barriers or boundaries are set up so the Divine Mind can experience itself in a fixed form for as long as it chooses to." - pg. 8.
   
   "If the sphere of Saturn is the form-giver, then the Cube, which is a vessel, must contain Saturn's innate quality. Alchemically Binah, the sphere of Saturn, is the principle of salt, and salt is the symbol for the Cube." - pg. 50.
   
   
6. The winged hourglass with scythe: "Saturn (referred to by the Greeks as Cronus or Kronos) was the Roman Deity of Time and an ancient Italian Corn God known as the Sower. Male ruler of the Roman Gods prior to Jupiter, Saturn's weapon was a scythe or sickle." - http://www.novareinna.com/festive/oft.html
   
   "The position of Saturn's festival in the Roman calendar led to his association with concepts of time, especially the temporal transition of the New Year. In the Greek tradition, Cronus was often conflated with Chronus, "Time," and his devouring of his children taken as an allegory for the passing of generations. The sickle or scythe of Father Time is a remnant of the agricultural implement of Cronus-Saturn, and his aged appearance represents the waning of the old year with the birth of the new, in antiquity sometimes embodied by Aion. In late antiquity, Saturn is syncretized with a number of deities, and begins to be depicted as winged, as is Kairos, "Timing, Right Time"." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_%28mythology%29
   
   
7. Called from Labor: The man in the image has all the characteristics of Saturn/Cronos, and he is accompanied by the virgin goddess and the broken pillar. These are Kundalini and Tree of Life references. The goddess is the base chakra and Saturn is the crown chakra. When they unite, higher consciousness is reached, and the third eye is awakened. The woman is mourning the broken middle pillar and the resulting fall of man.

Saturn Cutting off Cupid’s Wings with a Scythe (1802) by Ivan Akimov

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Related to Mykah's post, focusing on the pyramid symbology and the two faces.
http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showp...&postcount=166








I began to think of the celtic notions of above and below.

Think of a large tree, we only see half of the tree. We look in amazement and wonderment at the life that is harboured in its branches and the incredible atmospheric processing factory the tree is. We forget that below us is the other half of the tree, its roots providing a harbour for an entire ecosystem, and the roots are an enormous chemical processing plant.




Duir - Double-ended oak treeThis picture comes from an ancient druid grove in Derby and shows an oak tree (Duir) with its branches and roots entwined to make the circle of life. In the 90s an ancient oak tree was uncovered as the sea went very far out on the Norfolk coast. It had been buried upside-down within a circle of posts, a woodhenge. Time Team built a replica of it that was most impressive and gave you a strong sense of what the place must have been about.

The concept of burying the tree upside-down, so its branches were in the earth and its roots in the heavens has lots of esoteric symbolism.
http://elensentier.wordpress.com/201...gham-duir-oak/

Two faces of the same coin.

I think of the pyramids coming in pairs. The depiction of the Star of David on the Israeli national flag is for me an indication of a double pyramid, one facing up, the other, subterranean facing down,




The pyramids true power was not just the enormous energies it sends up into the atmosphere, image those same huge energies also being transmitted downwards, or perhaps the underside pyramid focuses the subterranean energies into the above ground pyramid?

I have often wondered what is beneath Silbury Hill, not just what is in it.

The Nile as Tree of Life:

but which is the root and which is the branch? What is up and what is down? For the Ancients, The Med was the bottom of Egypt, South was at the top. The Delta is the roots.



Black is white. Above is below. Top is down.