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> For example, Moses is easy to recognize at lower right, because of the glowing horns I'm sorry, what? Why is Moses depicted with glowing horns?

• pavel_lishin 1mo ago
  Yeah, I thought he was easily recognizable because he's holding stone tablets. But apparently it is a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horns_of_Moses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horns_of_Moses > The Horns of Moses are an iconographic convention common in Latin Christianity whereby Moses was presented as having two horns on his head, later replaced by rays of light.[1] The idea comes from a translation, or mistranslation, of a Hebrew term in Jerome's Latin Vulgate Bible, and many later vernacular translations dependent on that. Moses is said to be "horned", or radiant, or glorified, after he sees God who presents him with the tablets of the law in the Book of Exodus.
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  • madcaptenor 1mo ago
    He didn't carry the stone tablets around all the time.
    • pavel_lishin 1mo ago
      No, but it's likely the event he's most associated with. If you asked random strangers in the street what Moses is most well known for, I'd wager bringing the stone tablets down would be #1.
      • mjd 28d ago
        You don't think it would be parting the Red Sea?