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[Alexandr Korol]

Further in the description it is written that “with four arms under each of the four wings. And four faces. A man and a lion on the right side, a bull and an eagle on the left.” And they also ask us to familiarize ourselves with what a tetramorph is to imagine it. So, if we talk about faces, then this face is a triangle. And it is an equilateral triangle or rather a tetrahedron, but while we are in the plane, it is a triangle. And a triangle with its point up. If you take a cube in your hand and look at it through an angle, like a hexagon, then you need to look so that you have a triangle with the tip facing up. And this is the face of an eagle and the face of a calf. Now pay attention to how you need to rotate the figure, which corner you need to drag, and where, so that you also have a hexagon, but now the triangle is down. In fact, for you to do this, you just need to make one movement, one turn. That is why it is said, “left and right”. Do you understand? Therefore, on the left is one thing, and on the right is another. And here is a triangle, turned point down – this is the face of a man and the face of a lion. Why and what is it? These are proportions, the golden ratio. And if you look clearly at this triangle, as I depicted it, and there is still something in it, this triangle has a central point – this is this angle that you always look at when you hold the cube like a hexagon. And it turns out that this big one, it’s upside down with its point down – this is facial proportion. That is, if you look in the mirror or if you look at a person, you will see eyes, nose, and mouth and these are the proportions. That is, everyone has such a triangle on their face. This face is, therefore, somewhat similar to a person, some similar to another creature, and the same for turned around cube, if you turn the shape over.

Further in this text, I decipher it about tetramorphs and what kind of creatures they are. It is said – the prophet Ezekiel wrote about this – that “near each of them there is a wheel.” Everything needs to be in order. Now that we understand what they look like, I began to draw this wheel. I took as a basis the boundaries of the triangle, that is, the corners, and made rings around the “animals”, more precisely around the Cherubs, around their faces. I made these “wheels”. Later on, I will come back to this. That is, I simply explain that these wheels, let’s say, are depicted and made like this. For this, I used different methods for my model: wire, and also carefully bent wooden sticks from which I made the model. And now try to do it correctly around these animals, or rather around the Cherubs.