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No. 4 perfectly represents the various states of anger, disbelief, doubt, and conversion.
Am quite moved by the artworks you post, certainly, but also moved and indebted to the effort you put into amassing the art.
May God bless you and yours.
There's something paradoxically "lost in translation" when the English texts read as "Areopagus" rather than "Mars Hill".
By virtue of its height and Northeast location, the summit of Mars Hill is the first place in the contiguous United States to see the sun rise for nearly half of the year, from March 25 to September 18.[2] The first 50-star flag to see the sun in the U.S. was raised on July 4, 1960, at 4:33 AM. Fifty national guardsmen gave it a 50-gun salute.
There's the first flag of 50, the first light, and even the First Wind over at Mars Hill, the place named after Hezekiah Mars.
This place has got everything, even 28 wind turbines for power, ko'ach [כח , 28].
The rule with the flags is that the updated version would first fly on the July 4th following the new statehood(s).
In the above case, Hawaii became the 50th state on August 21, 1959. July 4th, 1960, arrived 318 days later.
the summit of Mars Hill is the first place in the contiguous United States to see the sun rise for nearly half of the year
Which brings me back to the Greek.
Sun, helios [ήλιος] = 318
Re the symbol for Mars ♂️, every man:
One explanation is that it represents Mars' shield and spear, but there's also the claim that it morphed from the letter theta, which was short for the Homeric epithet of Mars (θοῦρος, "rushing, impetuous").
theta [Θήτα] = 318
Then if that theta is appended to Mars: Άρης Θ = 318
All kinds of... angles to this stuff. 🌞