However you choose to interpret the literal meaning of perþ (and again, nobody really knows what that is), the basic symbolism is that of a vessel, nurturing and giving ‘birth’, keeping hidden and secret all those mysteries, which can be uncovered only after the initiation of death. ...
By “symbol” I specifically refer to a concept or idea which has a potential unlimited number of layers of meaning, and which leads the mind progressively deeper the more one contemplates it. What if, rather than trying to createDogma, these stories were meant to createMystery– which in it...
Honeychurch (p. 69) notes that long-distance contacts between North Inner Asia and East Asia intensified in the middle of the second millennium BCE through interregional transfers of bronze metallurgy, wheeled vehicles, artifact styles and belief systems. Around 800 BCE, North Inner Asia and East ...
and they knew what they wanted. The person working the register efficiently swiped my gift card. The problem was the lackluster barista. If this guy had been a car, he would have been a Yugo stuck in second gear – and that was
Culture and identity in a society can be represented in the architecture and the meanings intertwined with it. In this sense, the architecture and design are the interface for transferring meaning and identity to the nation and future generations. Persian gardens have been evolved through the histor...
THE SYMBOLIC AND PROCREATION 象征界与生殖 FREUD AND THE SIGNIFIER 弗洛伊德与能指 What was the meaning of my lecture last night on the training of analysts? It was that it is essential to carefully distinguish between symbolism properly so-called, that is, symbolism as structured in language, th...
and made me question whether or not every item had a deeper hidden meaning. In the book as the main character travels through his hero’s journey and farther into Africa we can see the horrors of colonialism on the African peoples, the descent into ones id or their primal instincts, and ...
ACCORDING to the original meaning, the attributes [sublimity, potentiality of success, power to further, perseverance] are paired. When an individual draws this oracle, it means that success will come to him from the primal depths of the universe and that everything depends upon his seeking his...
The Hebrew word for hell is ‘sheol’, meaning the ‘place of the dead’ — but it is distinct and different from the Lake of Fire. The Lake of Fire is the SECOND death, according to the Book of Revelation. Hippolytus of Rome (died 235) pictured the “lake of unquenchable fire” as...
These churches make a token of practicing Baptism and the Eucharist occasionally, just because they are plainly commanded by Christ. But they have no real meaning or efficacy. If something is merely symbolic, it must be unimportant and unnecessary. It becomes a mere “symbolic act of obedience”...