The imagery of Botticelli is remarkably beautiful though it hauntingly reminds me of the images in Christianity of the blonde, blue-ed Jesus. Zipporah was more likely to be a dark-skinned Ethiopian woman. Jesus was more likely to have middle-eastern features as well. Such imagery is disturbing.

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