Queen of Birds
Ex Hoc In Aliud
From this into another. The bird-vessel transforms its contents—soul transmutes matter.
The bird-vessel transforms its contents — ex hoc in aliud, from this into another. She holds the jug from which one thing enters and another emerges.
The Queen of Birds presides over metamorphosis. What was water becomes wine, what was wine becomes spirit, what was spirit becomes flight. Her domain is the threshold between states.
Transmutation is her art: not destruction but translation, substance preserved through radical change of form.
Source: Paradin, Devises Héroïques, 1557, p. 141