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Council of the gods from the Loggia di Psiche, Villa Farnesina, with Pluto holding a bident and Neptune a trident. In Western art of the Middle Ages, classical underworld figures began to be depicted with a pitchfork. [22] Early Christian writers identified the classical underworld with Hell, and its denizens as demons or devils. [23]
Neptune ♆ U+2646 Neptune's trident Pluto ⯓ U+2BD3 Pluto's orb and a bident ♇ U+2647 PL monogram for Pluto and Percival Lowell ⯔ U+2BD4 Symbol used mainly in France, Spain, Italy and Germany. [32] ⯕ U+2BD5 Symbol invented by German astrologer Hermann Lefeldt in 1946. Used by some followers of the Hamburg School of Astrology. [32]
According to the second and third Vatican Mythographer, Neptune's trident symbolizes the three properties of water: liquidity, fecundity and drinkability. [12]The trident of Neptune was viewed by Roman scholar Maurus Servius Honoratus as three-pronged because "the sea is said to be a third part of the world, or because there are three kinds of water: seas, streams and rivers".
Trident of Poseidon. A trident (/ ˈ t r aɪ d ɛ n t /), (/ ˈ t r aɪ d ɪ n t /) is a three-pronged spear.It is used for spear fishing and historically as a polearm.As compared to an ordinary spear, the three tines increase the chance that a fish will be struck and decrease the chance that a fish will be able to dislodge itself if struck badly.
In the Renaissance, the bident became a conventional attribute of Pluto. In an influential ceiling mural depicting the wedding of Cupid and Psyche, painted by Raphael's workshop for the Villa Farnesina in 1517, Pluto is shown holding the bident, with Cerberus at his side, while Neptune holds the trident. [138]
Neptune: Trident, weapon of sea-god Neptune [29] Pisces [30] Change of contemporary musical taste: Confusion, sensitivity [30] Pluto (a) Pluto's bident; (b) PL monogram for astronomer Percival Lowell who predicted a planet beyond Neptune [31] Scorpio: Demolition of old, bad political systems: Transformation, [32] fate, death
The origins of the planetary symbols can be found in the attributes given to classical deities. The Roman planisphere of Bianchini (2nd century, currently in the Louvre, inv. Ma 540) [2] shows the seven planets represented by portraits of the seven corresponding gods, each a bust with a halo and an iconic object or dress, as follows: Mercury has a caduceus and a winged cap; Venus has a ...
Several symbols were proposed for Neptune to accompany the suggested names for the planet. Claiming the right to name his discovery, Urbain Le Verrier originally proposed the name Neptune [33] and the symbol of a trident, [34] while falsely stating that this had been officially approved by the French Bureau des Longitudes. [33]