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Working on the knowledge about the archetype of the Alchemist.

The last time I came to reflect on these things - this sort of thing - I was arguing about the Visionary archetype - had recently shared information about Tycho C. and its nature of TechThulhu.

[ https://plus.google.com/u/0/+DaeniemLoidlan/posts/V3PTsRqupdj ]

Yet, in some designs inspired by his works, and by Carrie Campbell ones, it has been possible to find comparisons of similar traits.

One of these seems to be the "embryonic development chamber". Something that, by form and function, seems to be a common trait of many works - both artistic and "technical" of the past (and is just thinking of the technical side that ends at the threshold of the Archetype of the Alchemist)

One of the beings that alchemists were purportedly able to create, among other things ,was the homunculus , in latin little man, it takes from Golem jewish tradition - and all we are able to easy compare to the simulacrum idea in Ingress.

The homunculus is first referred to in alchemical writings of the 16 th century. It is likely, however, that this concept is older than these writings. The idea that miniature fully-formed people can be created has been traced to the early Middle Ages (400 to 1000 AD), and is partly based on the Aristotelian belief that the sperm is greater than the ovum in its contribution to the production of offspring.

The first RECIPES for the production of homunculus required animal incubators to give birth to a "protoplasm" generated by human blood that was necessary to ingest them, then to be treated with various alchemical wisdom compounds.
(Book of the Cow - Plato)

Much of what seems to these recipes, however, brings to mind the most "obscure" field of demonology: the so-called homuncles, in fact, had more mystical and scientific functions, allowing their "father / master" (or perhaps Patron) To capture the sight of distant events in space and time (television), to predict and show off-season weather, to generate very poisonous snakes.

The alchemist Paracelso ( Philip von Hohenheim ) proposes in his De Natura Rerum a different recipe, which does not include blood but man's seed, and the choice of a female mare as an incubator.

Beyond the picturesque and macabre choice - absolutely common, for the time and sensitivity of 1600 - Paracelsus offers a higher reflection on the fact that the creation of artificial life is something that is transmitted to man by higher entities - divine, perhaps Exogenous Originals - and that care must be paid to the utmost zeal in the education of these artificial surrogates of life.

Particularly unnoticed, it is, above all, the iconographic choice of the lamb that contains the "fetus" of homuncle in formation.
As it was said, very similar to the one designed for the first time by Campbell, and carrying the study of the glyph shapers "begin".