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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7961491, member: 110504&quot;](Just getting up here) Lots of really, impressively incisive comments here --I think that can include the ones on the speculative side.&nbsp; Thanks in particular, [USER=120820]@Heliodromus[/USER], for the enlightenment and link about the Coptic textile.</p><p>More broadly, it&#039;s worth remembering what a profound period of religious flux this was.&nbsp; In any great movement, whether Christianity, or jazz, or European painting from around 1900, a lot of dynamics tend to be going on simultaneously, with widely varying degrees of synergy, never mind direct causal effect, between them.&nbsp; Transfer that principle to something as innately fluid as symbiotics, and it&#039;s easy to imagine a range of contrasting but simultaneous interpretations going on.&nbsp; [USER=120820]@Heliodromus[/USER]&#039; point about broader cosmological connotations, rather than explicitly religious ones, is very a propos here.&nbsp; Back to the Copts and the Ankh cross, the Ankh was a generalized symbol of life, for one.&nbsp; Easy enough to tweak along Coptic Christian lines.&nbsp; </p><p>It makes sense to me that the motifs on Roman coins of the period might even have been <i>intended </i>to attract multiple interpretations, depending on the mint and the attendant demographic(s).&nbsp; ...There could even be precedent for this, in earlier Roman and Hellenistic coins.&nbsp; ...?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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