> Once you start looking for El as a name of God and a crescent shape it is everywhere.
Have you ever looked into late middle ages and early Renaissance watermarks (i.e., in sheets of paper)?
Papermakers' guilds in the 12th to 16th centuries seem to have carried an ancient body of myth and memory. They were considered heretics, being a well organized workingmen's craft guild outside the lamestream structures of the Roman church, and were viciously persecuted as such.
Catalogs of watermarks have been prepared from ancient paper archives (such as at the Arches paper company), and watermark history is a sub-field of its own, related to other studies such as emblem books and iconography.
If you look at collections of watermarksfor instance, prepared by Charles-Moise Briquet, "Les Filigranes: Dictionnaire historique des marques du papier dès leur apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en 1600" (available at Archive) or others available onlineit's possible to align claims made by people including David Talbott with what is shown in this record.
The example of the crescent is very interesting IMO because it is often depicted in tandem with the Grail in these watermarks. Mike Baillie interprets the Grail as a cometary phenomenon in the shape of a bowl (crescent) of light, accompanied by a glowing veil (as of comet tail) and a glowing spear (bolt) (of Lugh, Arthur, etc.). I mentioned that in another thread.
I don't think Dave Talbott knew about this body of symbols/memory. Briquet's massive collection of watermarks, from 1907, was generally found only in rare book collections even into the 1990s. A secondary work derived from that (Harold Bayley's Lost Language of Symbolism, 1912) was found only in the Z stacks (bibliographic studies) of research libraries.
After the Black Death of ~1347, European society and economy were massively restructured. Labor was reconfigured and many of the old cultural rootings disrupted. The persecution of heretics from the late 1300s on is clearly both a power struggle and an effort to erase earlier memory. People who today assert that there is some EZ PZ direct transmission of a "moloch cult" down thru the ages don't seem to be aware of the terrible disruptions of 536-545 and the 1340s, which an increasing number of researchers attribute to the earth passing through dense regions of Comet Encke's cloud. The assertion of the halo-bearing lamb-god sacrificed on a hill seems to gain traction in Europe after the 6th century disruption.
