11 juin 2007
The furnace bridge of the church Notre-Dame d' Avenas
The
remarkable carved and classified furnace bridge, with its Christ in
majesty surrounded of the twelve apostles and the representation of the
foundation of the church, make of it one of the wonders of the clunisian
Romanesque art finishing the XIIth century.
The inscription under the subject of the foundation, right face of the furnace bridge, is prone to polemic.
(RE) X LUDOVICVS PIVS AND VIRTVTIS AMCVS
OFFERED AEECLESIAM RECIPIT INTIVS ISTAM
LAPADE BISSENA FLVITVRVS IVLIVS IBAT
GOVERNED BITS FVGAT OBPOSITV AD INTITUM
(it is) king Louis, (the man) pious and friend of the virtue
(which) offers (this) church: (saint) Vincent receives it
in a dozen days July was going to be completed
death puts in escape and conduit at its loss (that) which is opposed to the king.
Whereas the translation made by Mr Oursel:
king
Louis is a man pious and friendly of the virtue (and not Louis piles,
which implies that the date suggested for the foundation of the church
is not at the time of this king.)
Lampade bissena (the 12th day or
during 12 days. Phosphoresced =luminaire, one can include/understand
the 12th moon, which us ammene at December and… the winter solstice)
The church, by its slope, corresponds to the sostice of winter!
The
furnace bridge is devoted, i.e. that it must comprise 4 crosses with
the 4 corners, plus another in the center. They are quite present, but
have the form of dextrogyre Svatiskas. Symbol of action, rotation
around a fixed point, ego or the pole.
The
principal frontage of the furnace bridge represents Christ in a
mandorle, surrounded of the 12 apostles. The fingers are long, (Lug),
it sat on a throne in the shape of head of ram… or of matrix, which
would support the female side of almond-mandorle, and the dedication to Notre-Dame.
Its
naked feet are not posed on the ground, signs of a great spirituality. All
the apostles hold a book, except one, which by the orientation of its
hands, indicates the energy currents of the church to us.
The
other face presents to us various scenes of the life of the virgin:
Annunciation, nativity, presentation with the temple and the
dormition-assumption. In the medium, a pillar where 3 are found dischargers, sign which 3 currents cross under the furnace bridge. A boat
is also represented, symbol of the heart which rises, which leaves on a
journey in water-beyond… Egyptian concept, is not it?
The back of the furnace bridge presents a door, which would let believe that it was at the time the receptacle of some relics.
Pilasters of the church of Avenas
The
apse in half dome of the church of Avenas is decorated with pilasters.
There are 4 of them (ground, matter), separating 3 windows. These
pilasters, or posts, look curiously like some pillars of the church
of Belleville, (which of egg or hen…) but also with some pillars of
the church of Beaujeu, and several pillars of the crypt of
Tournus. It would seem that they can be dated from IXth century… They
are Roman in their design, but do not have anything naive, as we will
be able to study it further.
The first pillar
It
carries all length 6 circles in which we find a flower, each
different time. On the capital, a stylized flower, whose sheets are
drawn up towards the sky. The circles make think of the druidic cross,
which shows that the knowledge was found in the builders of the
Christian churches. Each circle corresponds to a chakra. The 7
principal ones are thus engraved in the stone, if we count the
coronal at the top. Each chakra control one or several organs. It is incredible to find inside each circle the flower which,
in the pharmacopeia of the Middle Ages, was used to look after the organ
related to will chakra…. We have to learn a lot from these Middle Ages
which some describes as obscure…
The second pillar
It
shows us this time the 7 chakras in the shape of flower posed
along an undulating line which leaves the base of the pillar to go up
to the capital. On this one, a crowned human head with a flower of lily,
and each side, a sheet of chelidonium.
The chelidonium, called also
large celandine, draws its name from the Greek “Khelidon”, who means
swallow. Another time was thought that the swallow was useful itself the
latex of the plant to clean the eyes of its childrens. Its to you “to see”… 
A
note: the flowers are not at equal distance from each other, but
are placed exactly at the places where are chakras on the
human body. Space between them is narrower between chakra coronal
and the frontal one. I see from here large specialists saying that the
sculptor, having badly calculated his blow, tightened the flowers when
it arrived in top to gain place… Like the slope of the axis of the
churches, they could not be useful of a right feature, these poor mens....
This
pillar curiously makes me think of a rise of kundalini. The character
on the capital would be then the man waked up, the opened eyes, ready
to use energies like an initiate, crowned. He reached the illumination.
The
flower of lily stylized on the top of the head can be symbol of
generation, flower of glory and sublimated love, source of fruitfulness.
Another note:: the petals are presented on each felur in two circles, two of 5 plus the central petal. 11 flowers, 77 petals.
77= 7+7=14, the blade of the temperance which mairise energies busy from one pot to another, 1=4=5, harmony and balance…
The third pillar
It
advances to us in our chakras. Always 7 central flowers, this time
connected between them by wire of energy. Root chakra draws its
energies directly in the ground, the base of the pillar. The sky of chakra coronal is arched. One can also see, in the octagones
formed by the lines, chains of ADN. On the capital, a central flower
with 7 petals, a central point, and 28 holes around. At base 4 of the
pillar comes to be added 3, that one find in the 3 holes of the fruits
posed inside the sheets of large plantin the, favorable one to the
cicatrization and polishing substance. 4, ground, 3 sky…
The fourth pillar
It
carries us in the strongest energies, being placed on the crowned
network. We find once again our chakras, on each side this time, a
female side and a masculine? In the center, 12 flowers also connected
by energies. Cosmic cycle?
On the capital, three sheets of thistle, or large carline. The large carline
was
used since Charlemagne (from which its name comes) like medicine
against any venom. On the subtle level, it protects from all the
dangers. Moreover, it communicates an invincible force… Normal thus to
find a amphisbene, of the Greek lecture theaters, the two sides, and
bainein, to go… Our snake, therefore energy or vouivre, which goes on
the two sides at the same time, is connected to cosmic and the telluric
one. We are in the presence of the pillar of the man made at the end of
his search, using energies without danger.
A
hole in square form is on the left side of the pillar. It makes
me think of a stoup posed there. It would be necessary to try to fill
it with water in the winter solstice, and to take measures then. I am
sour that we would have surprises…
Church Notre-Dame d' Avenas
The
village is located on an old Roman way going from Lyon has Autun, not
far from the forest close to the collar Barrel in Avenas (760
m).
This
way is known under the name of Shoed Chemin or Way of the Romans. One
knows by the Romans whom the area was inhabited at the time of the
invasion of Gaule but there only exists very little of vestiges of this
past.
At
the beginning of the Middle Ages, between 880 and 910, the cistercians monks melt a monastery and build a church of Roman style
between 1088 and 1150. The village named then Avenacum. Located at the
sources of Grosne, river which sprinkles Cluny, the village had also a
source with the healing virtues, sovereign for the fevers.
A legend speaks about the origins of the construction of the church: “The
Christians wanted to build a church on the ruins of the monastery of
Pélage, that the invaders buckwheats had destroyed. the tradition
reports that the craftsmen and workmen found, each morning, while
returning on the building site, their tools and materials dispersed by
a mysterious hand. Then the master of work thought that God wanted, for
its sanctuary, another site. It decided to launch its hammer in the air
towards the small valley, and that where it would fall, the church
would be built. The hammer was gone from there to choir with 1200
meters of the Collar, in a bush of hawthorns, close to the crowned pagan fountain, in Avenas…”
Us
here is the hawthorn, crowned druids plants , close which several
black virgins were found. This plant is also called the tree with the
fairies… And our hammer, attribute of Thor, come well by the way… We
are in full druidism, conveyed by our good monks.
The
church, modest by its size, caused several assumptions for its origin,
between the Carolingian time and the protective intervention of the
king Louis VII who controls Mâconnais. The remarkable carved and
classified furnace bridge, with its Christ in majesty surrounded of the
twelve apostles and the representation of the foundation of the church
by king Louis (?), one of the wonders of the Romanesque clunisian art,
finishing the XIIth century does of them.
This small Roman pink
stone church was dedicated to the Virgin. She is directed approximately
south-eastern 20°, to make it possible the networks to pass in her
center and to connect Was it of Avenas.
The church was restored at the 20th century: the turret with 8 faces and the sacristy go back to this time.
The interior, very simple, has a nave of 15 by approximately 5,50
meters, covered out of frame, with projecting transept, cupola on horns
with crossed and apse in half dome decorated with pilasters. 
The
baptismal funds, simple tank out of stone, have a lid drink some on
which is a cross that one can compare with the templar cross
of the “hip of Chartres”, being used as standard master for the building.
http://notes.romanes.free.fr/images/rhone/avenas/photos.htm
http://www.aucoeurdubeaujolais.fr/article.php3?id_article=176
“Of dolmens in menhirs” of Serge Barnoud, with the editions of the cosmogone