The Creation Tapestry of Girona (Spain) from around 1100: When Paganism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam were United

In 1982, author Hansueli Etter visited the Cathedral of Gerona in Catalonia (Spain) as a tourist. There he met the Creation Tapestry for the first time. He hoped to find an answer to the following questions: why the Creation Tapestry fascinated him as well as thousands of annual visitors and why this medieval image still enthralls today, going far beyond an art-historical curiosity. After extensive studies he dared to reconstruct the missing parts at the bottom of the picture, since the basic concept is undoubtedly a mandala. The added images should fit sensibly into the essential statement of the Creation Tapestry. Nowadays a part at the bottom of the tapestry is missing, but the still visible iconographic details and the understanding of its meaning allowed a full reconstruction of the image. To discover the symbolic meaning of the rich iconography of the Creation Tapestry opens up an insight in the common background of all religions back to the roots of shamanism, which use mandalas in dance as well as in images. To create or meditate on mandalas is till today a healing process and affects the human psyche deeply. Mandalas enforce the tendencies to unite the opposites, which is so crucial in our time. -Personal Foreword -Preface -Introduction To The Tapestry -Description Of The Tapestry -The History Of The Tapestry -On The Use Of The Tapestry -The Meaning Of The Tapestry -Primordial Beginnings – The Male And Female Aspects Of God -The First Four Days Of Creation -Physics And Depth Psychology: Modern Approaches To Wholeness? -Everyday Life As Depicted In The Border Of The Tapestry -The Legend Of The Holy Cross -Suggestions For The Missing Sections Of The Tapestry -Bibliography