Add to ORKGThe sketch is dedicated to the cultural mystery of the face’s symbolism in the Old Testament’s Song of Songs. The problematics of interpreting the polymorphic text became the point of departure of formulating a hypothesis, according to which a woman’s face can be understood as an epiphany of God’s ideogram of the world. The face of the Beloved is a challenge, which has the character of an initiation. An attempt to encounter the face, and therefore to recognize the work of creation, has the cultural values of misterium tremendum and misterium fascinans. The Beloved, identified with the dark and awesome initiating goddess, does not let the meeting with the Lover be accomplished, for the risk of the death of the initiated. In this way, the unf...