Boundaries - Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time - page 207

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Figure 5.14
From Chartres Cathedral. At the end of time,
the just rise to their beginning and reside
in the bosom of Abraham.
men in a dream and tell them to travel straightaway to their own country, and
not to return to Herod. The common message: don't look back.
On the ceiling bosses of Norwich (Figure 5.11), Noah and the animals ride out
the deluge in an ark, while John baptizes Jesus with waters of salvation in the
second cycle.
In the sixteenth-century painted glass of King's College Chapel in Cambridge
(Figure 5.12), Jonah, expelled from the belly of the