This Map has many cool things about it

Ten things we (me and Nate) found found cool about this map

  1. Map Oriented if you are looking in from the Gibraltar strait
  2. Jerusalem in the center
  3.  creatures along the Inside Edge 
  4. orange Tower looking structure what is it
  5.  appears to be a t o map
  6.  British crown on the bottom
  7.  dragging looking creatures
  8.  the shape of the map is either representing a clock or a sundial
  9.  Jesus as a top holding a to map additionally two angels on each side insensing Jesus and the world
  10.  Gates or walls in Asia

Discussion about the map

point nine

Figure 20 is really quite interesting not as a to map which was common for its time but what’s above the map which appears to be Jesus Christ with  the Halo around his head and in one hand he holds a simplified model of the world with the t o lines in his left hand his right hand held up with two fingers raised (dual nature) Flanking him are two angels now angels in the corner are not all that special for this time. as that’s a thing that occurred a lot in these kinds of drawings and Publications But that they are holding Thuribles  which in Christian  rites  are used to incense something or someone which could mean that they are blessing Jesus or the world in which he’s holding 


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