Atalanta Fugiens · Emblem I
Portavit eum ventus in ventre suo.
The wind carried it in its belly.
Emblem I
The motto is a line of the Emerald Tablet. The child of the work is carried before it is born, by something as invisible as wind.
A question to carry
What are you carrying that has not been born yet?
Emblem of the day
Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens (1618), with the Latin motto, a translation and a reading for each plate.
Engraving in the public domain.