Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion e p100 300

Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion e p100 300 Sector E plate Illustration: The center figure, a nude male with short, curly hair and visible genitals, stands facing forward in contrapposto. He is presumably Los, identified by the large hammer that he holds in his right hand and large tongs in his left. Left of Los, facing away from the viewer, a short-haired nude male(?) hovers, holding the globe of the sun on his left shoulder. He may be Los's spectre. On the right a nude female, her hair pulled back, stands in contrapposto. She may be Enitharmon, Los's emanation. Her body, considerably darker than the bodies of the two males, is turned away from the viewer as she faces left, looking either at her work in her left hand or at one or both figures to her left. Raising her arms at 135 degrees, she holds a distaff or a spindle in her left hand. From it to her right hand hangs a thick thread, colored in a way that suggests the "fibres" of generation. The single thread multiplies into several similarly colored lines that extend down to a crescent moon at the level of her waist. At the moon the threads multiply again as they extend from the moon down to the earth below. Behind the figures, a serpentine line of trilithons winds, like a long wall, across a grassy landscape dominated by a single hill in the center. The line of trilithons, which may represent one of the "Serpent Temples" mentioned on plate 80, line 49, forms a larger circle on the central hilltop and smaller loops approximating circles at each end. The background is a dark sky, partly lit by sunlight on the left and by stars and moon on the right. Component (Sector AC) Keywords: male, nude, short hair, facing away, hovering, holding, leg bent at knee, legs together, arm bent upward, holding, spectre, climbing, striding, tiptoe, rising At left, facing away from the viewer, a short-haired nude male(?) hovers, his legs together and his right leg slightly bent. His left arm is raised to support the globe