22.11.09

The Enchanted Egg of Naples

Incantamentum Ovi
(The Enchantment of the Egg)

And this is how Master Vergilius directed that the Griffin's Egg be constructed. First a line was made around the Egg, dividing it left and right. Then half the Egg was clad in gleaming yellow bronze, the other half was colored dark blue [complementary colors]; in these are the extremes, the hottest and coldest colors. A golden image of the Sun was placed on the bronze half, and a silver image of the Moon on the blue half.
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