Iconography 2
 
the impossible Tétramorph 
the half-tetramorphs (1 and 2) sculpted on each side of the head of the hell monster, which are the counterpart of the tetramorph around the Christ, allow reconstituting a strange representation:
 
A photomontage on this part of the lintel allows showing the reality of that iconographic representation absolutely
unbelievable on a Christian church. Without the subterfuge of the sculptor, using a splitting of his tetramorph to hide it,
his work would be reduced to dust for a long time by religious authorities.
 
Comparison with the Christ's tetramorph
 
Apostles
St James and St John
By their name written on their parchments, we can identify St Peter (PETRUS) with his keys, St James (IACOBUS) and St John (IOANNES). On the lower part of St John's and St Peter's parchments, the note APLS is written for APostoLoS (apostle: "sent" in Greek), but on St James's parchment the note ETDNI is written for ( Episcopus Tumuli Domini Nostri Iesus: warden of Our Lord Jesus Christ's tomb) because St James was not regarded as an apostle, but as the bishop of Jerusalem. Moreover, the sculpture doesn't bear any usual attributes of the patron of Compostelle pilgrims like a shell.

Would that sculpture be previous to the end of the IXth century?

 

St Peter
 
Bulls and Lions
The two lions, on each side of the portal, are a warning sign to these who enter in that church: that place is on guard of royal animals.
Heads of bulls, on the foothills, are very strange on a Christian church because they are included in the Mithra or Cybele's religion,
but not in Christianity which violently fought these religions, known as pagan.
 
the Judge of Hells

the beam which carries arms of the balance for weighing of souls is composed of a head lightly turned on left to the goods. That figure can't be the Christ who is on the left part of the lintel, in his mystic almond, but he calls to mind a kind of judge of hells like he appears in several mythologies (for example: Minos in Greek mythology).

That head with a pensive look, perhaps leaned on its left hand gauche, seems wearing a helmet. That head is topped with a little figure, but it's too much spoiled and is not possible to identify it.

 

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