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Religious freedom for the world / Rescued at Breitenfeld / Gustavus Adolphus and Christian hero

This is the lion of midnight / By which you have so long said / That he'll break suddenly / When is the church complained the meistn / That he ruthlessness / And unheard grawsamkeit / The enemies of Christ May you Straffner / With God and knightly arming / Rettner and the bedrengte Häufflein / Nöthn and in extreme danger. O pray, pray now who kan / The Loew confidently greiff the enemy / patron god of the old churches / Kan us through this Gedeon / Eretten except the enemy's hands / And throw scorn and shame / That our mouth filled with laughter frey / And our Zung boasting fully Sey / Because of the heroes of the highest distress / has saved us the true God. ¹

The "Lion of Midnight" is the Lion of the North (Gustavus Adolphus), as the morning for the east, the south for lunch and dinner, the West stands for. In the Latin expression septem triones is the name of the Pleiades. The literal translation is, however, the seven Dreschochsen. The Romans called the constellation so because the seven brightest stars of the constellation rotates around the pole star, like oxen to the winch of a threshing machine. This is to guard oxen, in addition, the task of the neighboring constellation Bootes, the ox driver is also called. ² Pleiades is the Greek name for the Pleiades, which is derived from Greek mythology. Namely Pleiades were called the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione of Oceanid. Because of their descent from Atlas they are also known as Atlanteans. According to the myth of Zeus as the Pleiades, Seven Sisters were transferred to the sky to save them from the snares of the hunter Orion, but even there they are still being pursued by Orion, whose constellation is approximately 30 ° southwest of the Pleiades. The Pleiades are visible from about mid-September to late April in the northern hemisphere, so they stand as a synonym for the sky to the north. more>

1. Poem, as it is reprinted in the information display case at the monument, author unknown. [ ← ]
2. The keyword ex septentrion lux (from the North [is] the light) was originally developed for the intervention of Gustavus Adolphus in the Thirty Years War and the rescue was therefore returned to the Protestant cause. Was resumed during the Battle of the phrase in 1813, when Sweden joined the alliance against Napoleon (eg in a line of poetry Theodor Körner: Light from the north breaks the light of freedom). Only later did the buzzword in nationalist circles Northern, Eastern and Central European countries as targeted questioning of the prevailing theory has been used previously ex oriente lux. The opinion of these trailers have According to nationalist thinking of the origin of all culture in Northern Europe and Germany located and then spread to the south. Despite intensive efforts, particularly in the 1920s, researchers were able folkish never to find convincing evidence for this archaeologically untenable theory. Vetreterin this "ariosophy" was among others the notorious Thule Society . After the Second World War are both appropriate reprints of older works, particularly from the time of the "Third Reich", as well as recent work has appeared primarily in publishers from the extreme right. In them, the alleged culture-making program "Nordic" or "Germanic" peoples already in prehistory and early history to the ancient civilizations (such as the Greeks, Philistines, Phoenicians and Egyptians) stresses and hence their superiority or the descent of the former. Among the best known proponents of ex septentrion lux Jürgen Spanuth is counted in 1953 in his publication The Atlantis riddled the sunken city of Atlantis in the North Sea localized and postulated a Bronze Age peoples of Northern European immigration in the Mediterranean. As an early proponent of the Swede Olof Rudbeck here Nordismuswird Elder (1630-1702) claimed that Atlantis was located in Uppsala. [ ← ]