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- the Apocalyptic Woman -

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The second in the series of woodcut rooms is the room of the apocalyptic woman. The theme of the room is a woman and flood. When the participants enter this room, a woman's torso moves slowly towards the representation of the apocalyptic woman in Durer's woodcut and eventually unites with it. When the torso becomes part of the woman's body, it triggers the end of the world and the water starts to rise, flooding the room.

"Then there was seen a great portent in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon beneath her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars. And there was seen in the sky another portent, behold, a dragon, ruddy and great, with seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth to devour her child as soon as it was born."

The deep blue tint, the pearl white color of the torso, and the angelic figures on the walls add to the serene aura of this room. The only excerpt in the tunnels where a female voice is heard is taken from Wagner's Die Walkurie.



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A voyager (navigator) entered the room, then the woman got a life in her body and bore a male child. The dragon pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. The two great wings of an eagle were given to the woman so that she might fly to her place in the desert far away from the serpent. Then the serpent cast from his mouth a stream of water after the woman, so that she might be swept away by the flood. But the voyager came to the woman's aid: and he clicked his wand and swallowed up the stream which the dragon had cast out of his mouth.


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