The Hermit
The Hermit represents searching, reflection, solitude, and mentoring. He deliberately separates himself from the world to seek deeper knowledge and truths. His attire symbolizes detachment from physical concerns, while his glowing pendant emphasizes the value of inner wisdom. The Hermit embodies the quest for overlooked knowledge and hidden truths.
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Searching
The Hermit is caught mid-turn as he comes to set his gaze upon his visitor. Why have we come to find him, wandering through the dark and the wild? He has willingly set himself apart from the world, seeking knowledge and truths that are more apparent when removed from civilization than when obscured by it.
Mentoring
Gathering all he knows, he is also one who would teach it, given the proper audience.
Reflection
His robes are simple and torn, a marked departure from concerns of the physical realm, though close to his heart is a glowing pendant, a symbol of the value of things that are within us rather than without. A starburst frames his figure and a window of faint twinkling lights opens up behind him. The Hermit finds an abundance of knowledge that we have overlooked, a world hidden in plain sight.
Additional Artwork
Behind the Hermit is an expanse of sky and stars, centered around a cluster of stars, a stand-in for the Nebra Sky Disk. (The disk’s real design has been trademarked by the German state Saxony-Anhalt, and cannot be legally depicted without permission.) The Nebra Sky Disk is a bronze disk about 12 inches in diameter, found in what is now modern-day Germany and dated to -1600 BCE. It contains icons of the sun, crescent moon, and a star cluster likely to be the Pleiades. The disk is thought to be an instrument of both astronomical and religious significance and is the earliest known concrete depiction of cosmic phenomena, specifically solstices. Independent of these cosmic phenomena, the earliest known depiction of the stars has been traced to 30,000 BCE, also in Germany. Though the precise purpose and nature of these items are open to speculation, they establish a minimum timeline of human interest in the stars.
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