*Ø* Blogmanac October 28, 1886 | One nation under Goddess
The 49 m-tall Statue of ‘Liberty Enlightening the World’ was dedicated in New York Harbour by President Grover Cleveland. She was created by French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi. It has been said that the face is that of his mother.
The idea of the Statue of Liberty was not received well by either the US federal nor New York state governments. However, due to a campaign stated by publisher Joseph Pulitzer, funds were raised for the American half of the bill in only five months.
In Roman mythology, Liberty is Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom. Originally a goddess of personal freedom, she evolved to become the goddess of the commonwealth. Her temples were found on the Aventine Hill and the Forum. She was depicted on many Roman coins as a female figure with a pileus (a felt cap, worn by slaves when they were set free), a wreath of laurels and a spear
Libertas was presented in 1884 as a gift from the French Grand Orient Temple Masons to the Masons of America in celebration of the centenary of the first Masonic Republic. The cornerstone of the statue has an inscription that records that it was laid in a Masonic ceremony. It is believed that Bartholdi conceived the original statue as an effigy of the goddess Isis, and only later converted it to a ‘Statue of Liberty’ for New York Harbour when it was rejected for the Suez Canal. The statue of Isis was to be of “a robed woman holding aloft a torch” (Weisberger, Bernard, Statue of Liberty: 1st Hundred Years, p.30, quoted in Lloyd, James, Beyond Babylon, p.103).
A huge restoration project, costing $66 million, was finished in 1986, the 100th anniversary of the dedication of ‘Liberty Enlightening the World’. A four-day festival centring on July 4, 1986, marked the anniversary. A grand ceremony was also held on October 28, 1986 – 100 years after the original dedication of the colossus.
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The 49 m-tall Statue of ‘Liberty Enlightening the World’ was dedicated in New York Harbour by President Grover Cleveland. She was created by French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi. It has been said that the face is that of his mother.
The idea of the Statue of Liberty was not received well by either the US federal nor New York state governments. However, due to a campaign stated by publisher Joseph Pulitzer, funds were raised for the American half of the bill in only five months.
In Roman mythology, Liberty is Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom. Originally a goddess of personal freedom, she evolved to become the goddess of the commonwealth. Her temples were found on the Aventine Hill and the Forum. She was depicted on many Roman coins as a female figure with a pileus (a felt cap, worn by slaves when they were set free), a wreath of laurels and a spear
Libertas was presented in 1884 as a gift from the French Grand Orient Temple Masons to the Masons of America in celebration of the centenary of the first Masonic Republic. The cornerstone of the statue has an inscription that records that it was laid in a Masonic ceremony. It is believed that Bartholdi conceived the original statue as an effigy of the goddess Isis, and only later converted it to a ‘Statue of Liberty’ for New York Harbour when it was rejected for the Suez Canal. The statue of Isis was to be of “a robed woman holding aloft a torch” (Weisberger, Bernard, Statue of Liberty: 1st Hundred Years, p.30, quoted in Lloyd, James, Beyond Babylon, p.103).
A huge restoration project, costing $66 million, was finished in 1986, the 100th anniversary of the dedication of ‘Liberty Enlightening the World’. A four-day festival centring on July 4, 1986, marked the anniversary. A grand ceremony was also held on October 28, 1986 – 100 years after the original dedication of the colossus.
Goddess of Liberty (New Age)
The Statue of Liberty and Freemasonry
Goddess Liberty on Roman coin
Google other colossal statues
Statue Of Liberty National Monument (National Park Service)
More at the Scriptorium
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