The Rainbow Vagina Portal to All Realms Sacred and Profane in Christian Iconography
In canonistic Western art history, the mandorla or vesica piscis (“fish vessel”), the almond-shaped portal, birth canal or vulva is the door through which all entrances, exits, epiphanies and transformations occur. In art historical iconography, all Assumptions, Apotheoses, Second Comings, Ascensions or depictions of Mary or Christ in Majesty are framed within its curving contours. No one comes or goes — to or from this plane or any other — except by the auspices of the sanctified womb — in iconography and in actual fact — the womb of Woman, Earth, Time, Space and Cosmos.
The examples below represent a mere fraction of the Holy Vulva Portal icon, representing the doorway to or from the Earth plane, or material realm of physical incarnation, for Christ, saints, sanctified cities like Venice, and even Mary herself — ascending, returning to Earth at the Second Coming of Christ at the Judgement Day, or being crowned Queen of Heaven. The liminal rainbow ‘lips’ framing the mandorla portal to and from all realms divine may reflect a meteorological light effect under certain conditions at high altitudes, like mountaintops. The ‘Brocken Spectrum’ is a rare optical phenomenon, which occurs when a person or an object stands at a higher altitude in the mountains and sees their shadow projected onto a cloud at a lower altitude.
