One of the Templars’ more enigmatic symbols was their wax seal – two knights riding a single horse. In the Middle Ages, people used seals to protect important communications from forgery ...

Zodiac horse diagram in Manuel Díes' late 15th ... but the question was nonetheless a matter of some debate.) By the end of the Middle Ages, the earlier view of creation that reserved an exalted ...

For an outsider, that all may seem ridiculous (as might countless other idiosyncrasies, such as the horses being blessed in church beforehand). Not to locals. Having emerged in the Middle Ages in ...