Atalanta Fugiens · Emblem L

Draco mulierem, et haec illum interimit, simulque sanguine perfunduntur.

The dragon kills the woman and she kills him, and together they are bathed in blood.

Emblem L

A reading

The last emblem: mutual death, and both drenched in the red. The end of the book is the reddening.

A question to carry

What in you has to die together with its opposite?

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Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens (1618), with the Latin motto, a translation and a reading for each plate.

Engraving in the public domain.

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