OUR NEWEST DISCOVERY

Are we seeing an intentional alteration of truth in a world-renown masterpiece? A woman’s figure is represented as a man’s–but what is this telling us?

In all likelihood, it’s part of the suppression of women, consistent with defacements, beheadings, exclusions. It may be part of the overall suppression of independent thinking, along with heresy, domination and intimidation in the medieval period. Just as people use words to change perceptions, here it may be happening through a piece of art. 

Here we see evidence of a deception; was the carved ivory Laurentius codex front cover changed from female to male?

This issue involves Charlemagne’s family, France and Germany, the Christian conquest of Europe and elimination of references to women.  Here’s the way it seems to us.

Our research links the statues of mother and child in the main hall at Laon to Charlemagne’s mother Bertrada, especially since Laon was Bertrada’s hometown. The horned bulls on the front facade connect Laon to St. Denis. The funerary statue of Bertrada in St. Denis bears resemblance to the statues in Laon, as do the horned bulls gracing the facades in both Laon and St. Denis. The above photograph – historically identified as Christian – may actually portray Charlemagne, his mother and grandparents. All the members of Charlemagne’s family shown on the ivory front cover of the Laurentius Codex established abbeys in the former Francia, in Laon, St. Denis, Prüm and Lorsch.

Charlemagne’s grandmother Bertrada is credited with founding the abbey at Prüm, in Germany. The image of her may well grace the front of the abbey there, and she may be the architect honored by the statue inside the hall as well. These same almond eyes of Grandmother Bertrada look out from the ivory front cover of the Codex Laurentius associated with Charlemagne’s Lorsch Abbey. Please note, however, the oddity of her mustache and beard, while other grandmotherly attributes appear to remain intact.

We submit that such distortions may have been done for the same purpose as the numerous defacements and beheadings that have been inflicted on the female statuary in Laon, namely the erasure of women from Europe’s historic medieval record. This theme carries through the massive numbers of females burned at the stake under the religious heresy laws that were in effect in Europe for 1400 years.

Females continue to be excluded by Christian doctrines – no female gods, all-male hierarchies, the blaming of women for original sin – and nothing suggests any deviation in these regards since the beginnings of this religion. If Charlemagne had actually converted to Christianity, his family’s image would have revered rather than commandeered and corrupted.