Ok. - federal reserve = keystone
Interesting...
Thank you for those images - I’ve been thinking about them and didn’t know where to find them. So far, I like this interpretation of “keystone” best. It’s possible that without stealing money from the labor of others, the DS would be almost powerless because they don’t do real work and they hate to spend their own money.
The Keystone. Thanks.
EXAMINATION OF SYMBOLOGY OF STATUES ADORNING THE CLEVELAND FEDERAL RESERVE BUILDING
Referencing the photo array of Keystone art posted by Cats Pajamas
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WOW! the symbolism was BLATANT even back in its earlier years. Implication of that first picture with the red colored keystone to me is that:
THE FEDERAL RESERVE IS THE KEYSTONE FOR BRINGING IN THE RED COMMUNIST FORM OF GOVERNMENT.
I was examining the figure in the bottom picture of the keystone bust above the doorway and decided to do some research to see if I could learn more about the symbolism they are using.
I decided to focus on the statuary for this little mini-spelunk.
This link and article surfaced:
https://wazopia.blogspot.com/2006/04/art-and-banking-cleveland-federal.html
It shows the statuary used on the Cleveland Federal Reserve Building, which does include the figure in the bottom of Cats PJ’s array.
If we set out her favorite crunchies and squeaky toys, we might be able to persuade her to post some of the pix from the links I will be referring to!
WARNING TO BAGSTER: THERE IS OWLAGE! - BUT NOT MY FAULT! REALLY!
First up is “Integrity.” - We can only wish.
The blogger states:
“Statue to the left of the entrance to the Cleveland Federal Reserve Building is called “Integrity”. According to the Ohio Outdoor Sculpture Inventory (OOSI), she is “a female figures in classical robes, crowned with olive, proper left hand holds a staff topped with a hand, proper right hand holds scrolls.”
LOL! Gotta get those scribes and accountants in there!
Well, I sound like I’m making fun, but I’m not. We do NEED those services. Many loyal and forthright patriots who love this nation and her founding DEEPLY have that as their professions. But we should recognize that from the get-go this particular organization was not benign. It planned to use the bookkeepers and the laws to enslave us. Of course, the scribes and accountants deserved a statue - especially if they delivered.
The next piece of statuary is “Security.” - Uh oh.... (was it Ben Franklin who admonished us that if we seek after security we would lose our liberty? Here is a link which discusses that attributed quote at length - Quite fascinating, but is definitely a distraction from the task at hand:
http://kevincraig.us/tempsec.htm
However, a tiny peregrination is in order with a small provocative quote from that article:
“America’s Founding Fathers would say that Americans today are slaves. Wealthy slaves, but still slaves. Slaves that enjoy luxury and tranquility, but still slaves.”)
So there in Cleveland, on the Federal Reserve Building there, is a lovely - beautiful, in fact, statue which depicts and ennobles “Security.”
The author of the discussion of art work on Cleveland Fed Building states about it:
“Statue to the right of the entrance to the Cleveland Federal Reserve Building is called “Security” OOSI says “she is a female figure in classical robes and an armored vest, crowned with oak leaves, proper left hand holds a strong box, proper right hand holds a sword for protection.”
Probably not depicting you and me, but the Prison Guards. The Fed and Banksters want Security, all right..... from US! And note it IS the strong box she is protecting - not us.
This next one shown on the Cleveland Fed Building is one we have seen before in our previous exhaustive FReeQ OWL Explorations. It is the shield of the Federal Reserve, but enfolded and adorned in such a way with the decorative curly cues (or should we say, “Qs ,“) - that it forms an OWL - much to baggie’s chagrin and sorrow:
“Federal Reserve Bank Entablature. According to OOSI “it is a broken segmental pediment frieze decorated with acanthus leaves, triglyphs and metopes decorated with replicas of ancient coins.”
Apparently the blogger guy did not pick up on the OWL symbology.
For those who might be unfamiliar with my researches on the symbology of the OWL, be sure to ask bagster about it! ;-)
The figure shown in the bottom of Cats PJs array is indeed also included in the Cleveland Fed Building statuary, but this blogger does not identify it.
He simply says:
“Center figurine at the entrance to the Cleveland Federal Reserve Building.”
Upon closer examination of Cat’s PJ’s photo array shot and the one in this article’s shot, it does appear to my eye that the figure is wearing a cap or head band to which wings are attached. This is, then, probably a depiction of Mercury, who also appears in our Fed money - particularly dimes.
Mercury is known as the “Messenger God” in the ancient Roman Pantheon.
“Astronomers have traditionally used this symbol for the planet Mercury, and it is the medieval alchemical sign for the element mercury (Hg) as well. It consists of the biological sign for female (the sign used for the planet Venus), but topped with “horns” or a crescent. Mercury was the swift messenger god of classical Roman civilization, and the horns represent the winged hat he is usually shown wearing. In ancient Greece, he was called Hermes.
The god Mercury was also symbolized by a caduceus - a staff with two snakes wound about it. The caduceus is today occasionally used to represent medicine, but the true symbol for medicine is the staff of Aesculapius (the Greek god of medicine and healing) which has only one snake.”
There is shown in this article, a depiction of the symbol for Mercury used in Alchemy, Astronomy, Astrology, etc. It is a circle with a set of two horns coming out of it like a Brunhilde Opera singer. Attached below the circle is an equal armed cross, like a plus sign.
Hmmmmm remember the pix from Q of the Elites wearing their Y horns? I wonder if this has any significance to that. Don’t know - just wondering.
http://www.messenger-education.org/elusive_planet/merc_symbol.php
More on the Mercury Symbol: DIMES
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_dime
“The Mercury dime is a ten-cent coin struck by the United States Mint from 1916 to 1945. Designed by Adolph Weinman and more correctly referred to as the Winged Liberty Head dime, it gained its common name as the obverse depiction of a young Liberty, identifiable by her winged Phrygian cap, was confused with the Roman god Mercury.”
Hmmmm they seem to be dodging the “Mercury” connotation.
The article at following link discusses the history of the “Mercury” Dime in detail. From it, we learn,
“…. Most prevalent and enduring was the impression that the new dime depicted Mercury, the speedy messenger of the gods in Roman mythology. Days after the first Winged Liberty Head dimes went into circulation, the Bisbee Daily Review said, “On one side is a relief of a woman’s head, with a Mercury wing.
The dime’s reverse depicted a bundle of rods bound to an ax. The fasces symbolized authority and the power of life and death in ancient Rome. On the Winged Liberty Head dime, it stood for unity and preparedness as the United States faced the prospect of war....”
Well, if true - But for too long, in many ways, the Fed thugocracy actually has had the power of life and death with its many contributory manipulations and fomenting of crisis and war.
So when did Liberty acquire a cap.... much less a winged one?
This link says the Freedom Statue on the Capitol was originally supposed to have a cap:
http://www.capitalcommunitynews.com/content/statue-“freedom”-atop-us-capitol-dome
“...Freedom was originally to wear a liberty cap, of the sort used by freed slaves in ancient Rome. Davis felt the design wrongly suggested that any Americans had ever been slaves….. Also, a liberty cap might encourage abolition in the United States. So, Crawford substituted a circlet of nine five-pointed stars and a headdress of feathers....”
I did find a numismatic site showing a 1796 Liberty Cap Cent. So, apparently, the Liberty Cap on money in this nation does have a longstanding tradition. But there are NO wings on it.
In my short little bunny hole search, I did not find the origins of the “Winged Cap Liberty.” It would surprise me if her first appearance is earlier than the 1916 dime....but I’ve been surprised before! LOL!
Food for thought: symbols can have more than one meaning.... perhaps in 1916, the designers crafted things so that the official symbol is capped Liberty - with wings, but those in the know, and those many who were classically trained at the time, recognized a “Mercury” symbol when they saw it.
Two more statuary figures grace the outside of the Fed Building in Cleveland:
One is a keystone piece, with a straight facing eagle looking to his left. Over him is a 5 pointed star.
The blogger describing the Fed artwork only states:
“An eagle and a star on the side of the Cleveland Federal Reserve Building.”
The final statue shown is one depicting “Energy In Repose.”
The blogger states:
“ Statue at the Cleveland Federal Reserve Building called “Energy in Repose” by artist Henry Hering. OOSI says “it is an heroic sized male figure wearing a tunic is seated on a rock; proper left hand holds a sledge hammer. “ And from Wikipedia, it is “four times life size, this enormous figure symbolizes the physical and intellectual energy characteristic of economic and commercial activities.”
The Blogger of the article:
Copyright 2006 James D. Fisher
All Rights Reserved
[Presumably for the photography and notes]
It should be noted that heroic statuary is very much in keeping with Communist art work. The Soviet era buildings and public areas were rife with it. Note also the depiction of the figure using a “sledge hammer.”
How very quaint. We seem to have gotten the hammer, but not the sickle. Maybe they thought we couldn’t handle sharps.