Re: Deep focus on Freemason forms found in Forbidden Planet

On 6/3/2024 11:18 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Mon, 3 Jun 2024 04:38:14 -0000 (UTC), Don <g@crcomp.net> wrote:
 

Petertrei wrote:
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Cookie's apron is cringe-worthy. But sometimes you must pander to
readers. In this case to readers who, at best, recognize only one
symbol: the apron.

 And a cook wearing an apron is so totally unheard that it /must/ be a
symbol of something, right? No cook in all of recorded history ever
wore an apron unless it was symbolic?
 Given their origin (historical or mythological, doesn't matter), I
would say that a bricklayers' apron and a cook's apron are similar but
nonetheless distinct.

Operative Mason's aprons are quite large, and made of heavy leather
or cloth. Early Freemason's aprons were similar:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Times_of_the_Day#/media/File:Four_Times_of_the_Day_-_Night_-_Hogarth.jpg
Modern operative mason's aprons are still like that:
https://dungarees.com/carhartt-103439-apron?&cs=BRN&size=OFA&cid=1161
The modern speculative Mason's intiatory apron is made of white
lambskin, and much squarer. In American lodges, most sideliners
will be wearing a cloth apron from the lodge stock.
https://dallasmasons.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/1-10.jpg
The young man with the glasses in the front row is wearing a
lambskin apron, and the man to the right of him is wearing a stock
apron. The more fancy ones with blue embroidery are officers.
Cookie's apron isn't all that far from that, but is too large, and
lacking a flap.
Still, Occam's Razor suggests he's wearing it for cooking related
reasons.
pt