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Dear Niven
I for one am interested in the details of the "rescue of
Tombstones" from an "old Sinclair Graveyard".
I am sure it is a good story.
Please share it with us.
Ken/SK/Canada
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Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000
2:37 PM
Subject: Re:
Rosettes
"The King of Terrors" is "death".
Momento Mori. Remember death as is
graphically depicted in Rosslyn
Chapel where there is one of the finest
examples of the danse
macabre - the dance of death - where living people
are led off, in order of precedence, to their graves. The
beautifully carved
representation of this 'dance' is seen above the access
to the retro-choir
in Rosslyn Chapel. Naturally, it begins with a
robed and crowned king
with his adjacent skeleton and ends with a ragged
pauper and his skeleton
- a poignant reminder that, in death, all men are
equal.
"The King of Terrors", which you see in Rosslyn Chapel, was
'rescued' by me
(with two Templar tombstones) from an old Sinclair
graveyard which had
become derelict and, to my mind, had been desecrated by
covens of witches
who were using the site for their
ceremonies.
Niven Sinclair
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