THE SECRET OF SANT PERE GALLIGANTS
During the Middle Ages, knowledge took refuge in
monasteries, not only as places where books were copied
or an "avant-garde" agriculture was developed, but arcane
knowledge was also inscribed in the constructions,
accessible only to those who knew how to "read the stones",
what Gurdjieff called Legominism.
From the Neolithic the builders tried to stabilize the special
moments of Light, like solstices and equinoxes, in their
works.These ephemerides together with groundwater and
faults, define the axes on which the energetic structure of
the temple is based.
THE SIRENS
The two-tailed mermaid of the cloister of Sant Pere
Galligants, links the luminous structure of the
Benedictine monastery and the Celtic tradition.
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Mermaid with bifid tail, symbol of Light and alchemy
of Sant Pere Galligants
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The first light of the equinoctial sunrise, illuminates the
center of the apse of the church of Sant Pere, and
extends to the center of the west gallery of the cloister,
exactly where we find the capital of the Sirens, these join
the light and water as fluid carriers of life and knowledge.
Because of their harmonic nature, half fish and half woman,
in other words: half solve, half coagulate; they are the
perfect symbol for the equinox.
In the Celtic tradition Melussina, the wife of Lug, the god of
Light and knowledge, was represented as a mermaid, so
here she would be the keeper of the sacred Light of the
equinox: the balance, the harmony between darkness and
light.
It represents the yin aspect of knowledge, something that
is not sought, but is intrinsic to being, inherent in unity.
In the chapel of the Virgin of the Mercè of the Cathedral
of Barcelona, whose orientation from the Master Point *
refers us to the exit of the Sun in the equinox, we have
the only siren of the whole temple, which keeps the Light
of balance, equal that of Galligants.
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Siren of the Chapel of la Mercè,
Barcelona Cathedral
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* Master Point: is the place where the work is directed,
when there is a plan defined from the beginning, from
there the whole temple makes sense.
For example, in the Cathedral of Barcelona and from that
point we have the invocations related to its festivity and
when the Sun rises or sets.
· The chapel of Mercè, is located at 90º which is the
sunrise of the Sun at the dawn of the equinox, on
September 24.
· That of San Juan Evangelista at 238º, sunset at
winter solstice on December 21, its holiday is on
December 27,very close to the solst
· Sant Pere 122º, the dawn of the winter's past, in
the Middle Ages, when the Cathedral was built, Sant
Pere, was celebrated at the end of December.
· That of Sagrat Cor to 58º, it is the dawn of the
summer solstice, symbolically represents the maximum
expansion of the Sun.
· Santa Llúcia 270º, twilight of the equinox, represents
the purity of the Light, so it is symbolically related to this
moment.
Not all temples have a master point, if the work has followed
extensions in different phases without an original plan, then
we find only the axes.
LIGHT AND ALCHEMY
The alchemists also consider that it is the Light that creates
the water, since at a certain time of the day, it can be seen
how the shadow-light follows similar patterns to those of
adhesion and cohesion, of the liquid element.
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Light-shade behavior with adhesion
patterns of liquids
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(The photo has been made without filters, glass in between,
or effects of any kind, is what you see with naked eye)
This game-balance of light-shadow is one of the bases in the
process of the constructions and the work.
I consider that the master builders and the philosophers had
an assiduous contact, since their knowledge was unitary,
sharing principles and symbology, and allowed to apply it,
both to the development of a building, and to personal
development.
In the equinoxes the light has a special wavelength,
that gives it the ability to interconnect the three brains:
the limbic, the neocortex and the reptilian, approaching
the totality of our being, since it is easier to use our
resources and Knowledge of a coordinated way.
This water-light realtionship, especially in the magical time of
the equinox, shows its quintessence in form of a mermaid
PIRENNE AND THE LEGEND OF GIRONA
According to the founding legend of the city of Girona, this
was created by the giant tricephalo Gerion, who faced
Thubal, king-god of the Iberians, defeating him. His
daughter Pirenne (Pyr is fire in Greek and therefore light)
took refuge in the mountains where Gerión stalked her,
burning the mountain and leaving her dying.
Heracles, Hercules of the Romans, found her in her tenth
work: get the oxen of Geryon in Gades, now Cádiz.
After completing his work, he confronted the giant, defeating
him, to avenge Pirenne.
The Pyrenees take the name of this Venus, with the
attributes of the goddess, the oxen that Gerion stole from
her family.It must be taken into account that in the Iberian
Peninsula, Iberians and Celts coexisted and mixed their
people and cultures.
What brings us again to Melussina and therefore to the
primal goddess as the initial sacred nucleus of the city.
SANT PERE GALLIGANTS:
SEED OF THE SACRED TRACK OF GIRONA
The monastery of Sant Pere, was one of the first religious
centers in Girona city after the Arab domination.
I think it was taken as a reference to develop the layout of
the later temples in the city of Girona, becoming a true
master temple, and then the mermaid, the real master point
of the sacred pattern of Girona.
The solstices, equinoxes and the North axis, orient the
temple and define its measures and proportions, or indicate
special places, as we have seen with the siren of the
cloister.The angular values that are shown on the axes,
have been taken having as reference the latitude of Girona.
42º.
Explanation of the axes: The image of the sunrise and
sunset of the summer solstice shows a "∨", while the winter
one offers a "∧", by joining the two taking the same central
point, we have a mirror symmetry "X", in which the axes of
the dawn are prolonged with those of the twilight of the
opposite solstice.
122º correspond to the sunrise of the Sun in the winter
solstice, the other end of this axis is 302º with the sunset
of the summer solstice, they are the ones that give the
orientation of the axis of the nave of the church, 58º with
the dawn of the summer solstice, 238º with the twilight
of the winter solstice, relate the belfry with the cloister.
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Map of Sant Pere Galligants, and the mermaid's master point,with the axes of light
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(the wheel that appears in the lower left corner of the
photo, is not oriented with the floor of the church, only
reflects the values of the ephemeris in this latitude)
SANT NARCIS
Developing in addition a plot that relates it of evident way
with the church of Sant Narcis, with the projection of the
sunset of the solstice of summer 302º.
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Plane of Sant Pere Galligants and Sant Narcis,
united by the sunset projection of the summer
solstice.
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If we project the decline of the Winter sun, 238º, from the
church of Santa Llùcia Sacosta (originally a temple of
Venus)we will obtain the limit of the central and western
apses of Sant Narcis, and the center of the nave when it
cuts the axis of the sunset of the winter solstice 302º
projected from Sant Pere Galligants.
This relationship of Sant Narcis, with the decline of the summer
and winter solstices of its two neighboring temples, reinforces
its funerary character.
SANT FELIX
If we take as reference the central point of the apse, where
the dawn of the equinox and the winter solstice that gave
axis to the central nave entered, and we draw an axis to the
altar of Sant Felix, we obtain the axis 58º-238º, solstice
dawn summer, sunset winter solstice.The northwest corner
of Sant Pere takes us to the bell tower of Sant Felix.
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Shafts from Sant Pere Galligants to Sant Felix
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CATHEDRAL
The projection of the North-South axis of the Sant Pere bell
tower, passes through the apseof the Cathedral of Santa
María of Girona, and continues to form the axis of the nave
of the church of les Filles de Sant Josep in the Plaça dels
Lledoners 6 .
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North-South axis, from the Sant Pere bell tower
to the Cathedral and the Filles de Sant Josep
church.
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CONCLUSION
Establishing a parallelism with the Master Point inside the
temples, we can intuit that the city of Girona, follows an
original master plan, from where the location is defined and
in some cases proportions and orientation of the other
temples, so that we can affirm, almost without a doubt, that
Sant Pere Galligants, would be the Master Point of Girona.
According to Geobiology and Feng Shui, the energy flows
come from the North and the East, heading south and west
respectively, so it is significant that the church of Sant Pere
Galligants is the most Northeast of the city, except for the
church of Santa Llùcia Sacosta located north of Sant Pere,
erected on an ancient temple dedicated to Venus that was
christianized in the time of Constantine, which on the one
hand, reaffirms the link between Girona and the primitive
goddess, and another Situa to the temple of Galligants as
an energetic reference of the whole plot of Christendom
temples.
BOOK
In my book "Places of Power: the guardians of the Light"
I explain these axes and how they treasure the "Spiritus
Mundi", indicating it in the stained glass windows, the
carvings, the gargoyles, or with the disposition of the
different invocations.
