Old Father Time - weathervane - Northants
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Norfolk12
N 52° 12.462 W 000° 54.786
30U E 642595 N 5786192
On the roof of a garage in a residential area of Northampton.
Waymark Code: WM5BE3
Location: United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/12/2008
Views: 7
A Weathervane depicting Old Father Time, with his scythe.
the myth :
The image of the Grim Reaper bearing a scythe is believed to have derived directly from Kronos. Both of these modern figures...Father Time and the Grim Reaper...are sometimes accompanied by a crow and there is speculation that the word "Chronos" and the subsequent associated God may have actually been representative of this bird, which was symbolic of both fertility and death. However, this hypothesis could again be as a result of confusion concerning similar-sounding words since the Latin for crow is "cornix." By the Middle Ages there were many engravings of the Grim Reaper which depict a skeletal figure holding a scythe and hourglass with a crow nearby.
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