Origin of this image

[rivera01]

Does anyone know the origin of this image:

shalombooksny.com/oscommerce/images/justo%20juez.jpg

I’ve seen it on religious candles and prayer cards, but I didn’t know that there was a novena about it. It is called the “Just Judge”, but some of the things that it protrays seem very questionable to me. I just have a bad feeling about it, also with this one:

img1.eyefetch.com/p/tq/779186-705d800a-128c-42fc-8005-56fbc737a41dl.jpg

I dont know to me it just seems that it is bordering the occult.

 

[Apollos]

Does anyone know the origin of this image:

shalombooksny.com/oscommerce/images/justo%20juez.jpg

I’ve seen it on religious candles and prayer cards, but I didn’t know that there was a novena about it. It is called the “Just Judge”, but some of the things that it protrays seem very questionable to me. I just have a bad feeling about it, also with this one:

img1.eyefetch.com/p/tq/779186-705d800a-128c-42fc-8005-56fbc737a41dl.jpg

I dont know to me it just seems that it is bordering the occult.

It looks like a Santeria artifact to me. If this image were not associated with Santeria I would have no problem with it.

 

[Chiltepin]

I agree with Apollos about the origins of the first image.

I curiously await further explanation on the 2nd one.

 

[CDNowak]

Does anyone know the origin of this image:

shalombooksny.com/oscommerce/images/justo%20juez.jpg

I’ve seen it on religious candles and prayer cards, but I didn’t know that there was a novena about it. It is called the “Just Judge”, but some of the things that it protrays seem very questionable to me. I just have a bad feeling about it, also with this one:

img1.eyefetch.com/p/tq/779186-705d800a-128c-42fc-8005-56fbc737a41dl.jpg

I dont know to me it just seems that it is bordering the occult.

I don’t know the origin of the Just Judge image (personally I associate that title with the Pantocrator icon). However the imagery is almost entirely consistent with either the instruments of the Passion (rooster, pillar, Veronica’s veil, palms, dice, purse, lance, sponge, ladder, hammer, basin and pitcher) or the imagery of the Fall (Adam’s Skull, apple, snake). Only the lantern and sword do not as clearly fit. It may well be that the image has been co-opted from orthodox Christan origins.

Second image is a little strange, but don’t know enough to say more.

 

[lizaanne]

Only the lantern and sword do not as clearly fit. It may well be that the image has been co-opted from orthodox Christan origins.

Lantern - hiding your faith under a bushel basket? Light to the world?
Sword - I do not come to bring peace but a sword?


I don’t have any problems with the first image.

Second image is a little strange, but don’t know enough to say more.

Agreed - strange. Would like to hear if anyone knows what it is.

~Liza

 

[CDNowak]

Just realized the sword: Peter and the slave’s Ear, lantern probably also from the Garden.

I have seen similar images, if not this exact one, that are from before the spread of Santeria.

 

[baltobetsy]

More guesses:

Lantern - carried by those who arrested Jesus
Sword - used by Peter to cut off the ear of Malchus

Betsy

 

[rivera01]

Ok, here is a better image of the second link I posted:
indioproducts.com/webstore/images/products/large/1775-337.jpg

Its called the “Powerful Hand”.

From what I read, from the pinkie finger to the thumb, it is Virgin Mary, St. Joseph, St Joachim, St Anne, and infant Jesus. But it just seems strange to me because I have never seen these images associated in other cultures, expect in Latin America.

 

[lizaanne]

Just realized the sword: Peter and the slave’s Ear, lantern probably also from the Garden.

I have seen similar images, if not this exact one, that are from before the spread of Santeria.

More guesses:

Lantern - carried by those who arrested Jesus
Sword - used by Peter to cut off the ear of Malchus

Betsy

Ah yes - of course - the sword used to cut off the ear! That was too easy!

~Liza

 

[Rawb]

The first I saw a long time ago in a three dimensional sculpture. It was an antique. I can’t find it now but it was meant to show Christ’s crucifixion and all the instruments of his passion. I don’t find the first image weird.

The second is strange. Could be just some folk art, but bizarre looking to me.