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er’s symbolic world which amplify the paradox of time within existence: the lyre bird is the eternal soul being raped (at Jesus’s feet) by a lizard-like creature which symbolizes a connection to the earth. Inside the water, we see the hybrid creature born from this coupling – a lizard with lyre wings hesitantly walking on stilts. I shall also demonstrate the loss of the connection to mystical, eternal time belonging to God and the angels, and the entrenchment within earthly time which provokes the appetite for material success and earthly glory, through the painting “Falling Angel” by Chaya Agur (fig 3). The analysis of the paint- ing’s symbols and meanings is based partly on the interview with the painter. While in the painting “Crossing Nature” the painter showed that eternal time and linear time are not separated, in the painting “Falling Angel” we observe a slightly different angle on the same concept. This painting, painted with mixed techniques, depicts an angel falling from mystical time down to earthly time as he crumbles into the treasures of which he is composed. Diamonds and gems scatter everywhere. His broken wing is trapped within the “fake” light of the “cow” which overflows with the milk of success and earthly riches. On the right side of the painting, we see a heavenly chicken laying golden eggs and casting the diamonds out as bait – an image of wealth and fleeting success. Humanity Fig. 2: Chaya Agur, Crossing Nature, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm. 106 | Bina Nir www.jrfm.eu 2019, 5/2, 95–116