Acrylic on Canvas 150×100 cm
According some sources the name REBIS, comes from combinaion of RA or also known as RE the Egyptian Sun God representing Male energy with the Sun and The IS for Isis, who is the Mother Goddess, connected to the Moon, which is feminine. Marriage of the two completes the great work. RE BE ISIS, meaning, once the 2 become 1, RE becomes ISIS and ISIS becomes RE.
Another theory is The Rebis (from the Latin res bina, meaning dual or double matter) is the end product of the alchemical magnum opus or great work.
After one has gone through the stages of putrefaction and purification, separating opposing qualities, those qualities are united once more in what is sometimes described as the divine hermaphrodite, a reconciliation of spirit and matter, ego and soul a being of both male and female qualities as indicated by the male and female apsects within a single body. The sun and moon correspond to the male and female halves.