I should explain
Although it’s clichéd, lame, boring, and not to be taken seriously, I originally wanted littlelamb.wordpress.com, but somebody who hasn’t used it took it first. I wanted to use “little lamb” for really, really obvious reasons… plus I recently learnt:
Pinedo… points out the interesting relationship between the lamb and the lion, by inversion of the respective symbolic meanings. Examples of this are common in Christian symbolism, especially during the Romanesque (Norman) period. A good instance is the Tympanum in the church of Armentia, where the Agnus Dei is shown inside a circle (symbolizing the All, or perfection) accompanied by the epigraph: ‘Mors ego sum mortis, Vocor Agnus sum leo fortis’…
- Dictionary of Symbolism by J. Erlot, London, 1962.”1
I hate to be smugly cryptic, or as least seem to be, but I think with a little bit of consideration, you can figure out what the Latin phrase means. I particularly like the “mors ego sum mortis” part.
I wish the phrase connected the lamb with a tiger, because the tiger is the other animal that is biographically significant to me (oh, I think this is obvious too), but I’m happy with what is.
1 Kiewe, Heinz Edgar. The Sacred History of Knitting. 1971. Oxford: Art Needlework Industries. 3.
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