The writing was also supposed to be aesthetic—good looking—and arranged to create a picture with some icons on top of one another. Deciphering the 1000+ characters of historical script posed a conundrum for many historians and scientists. Countless experts speculated about their meanings but it ...
In the light of avant-garde discourses regarding the dramatic relevance of the theatrical text, my study will point out how letters and their coagulated meanings turn into physical, palpable concepts. Theatrical texts and their carnal texture are raw cultural symbols, metaphorical acting bodies, ...
Until recently, given the time span we are talking about, the decipherment of hieroglyphic was hampered because those attempting to decipher the hieroglyphs assigned emotional meanings to the actual symbols used. For example, some people believed that the hieroglyph for son, a goose, was chosen be...
Mayan numerology was deeply entwined with their cosmology and religion. Numbers were sacred, carrying meanings that went beyond their mathematical value. They were used to calculate the optimal times for planting and harvesting, for conducting rituals, and for making important decisions within the commu...
conjuring new meanings that are reinterpreted with CLOT's vision. Graphic motifs of ankhs (that symbolizes the many aspects of life) are reinterpreted to represent the pain through life, the silhouette of the god of the afterlife shines through the dark with reflective textures and hieroglyphs from...
The detailed meanings of astronomical conjunction or opposition are explained further below: Any simple conjunction involves a close approach in the sky of two heavenly bodies, say Venus and Jupiter. But sometimes we see a conjunction of three or four planets at once. Similarly, any simple ...