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The Seven Levels of Silence Maya, Photoshop May 2007
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Character is a model I did in Maya back in 2004 (using the `raw`figure render from an animation clip); now worked into a 2-d work intended to depict a character from one of my poem-dialogues; I have incorporated the the hypercubus to finish it off into this narrative setting, which has become what it is- the Hierophant, pondering the Seven Levels of Silence.
The "SS" is not a reference to the SS officers of WWII; rather is the acronym for
i)`sapiens sapiens`as in Homo S.S (modern man).
ii) seven (levels of) silence; the shape of the two sīs depict 4 sevens, the other 3 are represented by the Pythagorean triangle above his head.
The spider in his left foot symbolizes the connection to the world, as outlined in the philosophy of the Left Eye of Horus Mystery School under the rule of the ancient sun-king Akhnaton.