Hidden Meanings; At Venice Biennale, the Works of Robert Gober Hint at Higher ThingsBlake Gopnik
There have been times when I prayed about a dream with snakes or other dark symbols in them. And the Holy Spirit is quick to tell me to pay no attention to it. The dream has no meaning, and the enemy is just toying with me. ...
More irritating is Christian symbols such as the sign of the cross having power against eldritch horrors. If the sign of the cross defends you against an eldritch horror, then the universe is overseen by an all-loving and all-powerful deity that wants nothing more than to be with you ...
(Rhetoricists had been writing about tropes, symbols, tokens, allegory, figures of speech etc since hundreds of years B.C.E.) They read the words in many different ways, sometimes as poetry, sometimes as allegory. After all, they were familiar with various traditions of storytelling, drama,...
Dark for more than a year due to much-needed maintenance, the Boathouse Row lights are back and brighter than ever. The iconic facades have been outfitted with 6,400 sparkling new LED lights. Glimpse the row’s new look on March 7 at the Relighting Ceremony, located directly across the ...
throughout the area with thought-provoking and sometimes enormous multi-level wall murals, including several along N. 7th Street, Stewart Avenue, Las Vegas Boulevard, and Fremont Street. Much of the art is easy to find while some are hidden gems, like those in the T-shaped dT-alley on ...
This is why these colors show up in comforting classic cafe checks and international symbols of healing. Go read a bit on Kundalini and let me know what you discover! In the meanwhile…downtown “love-ins” for storm drains and interpretations of window boxes aka “Agbags” from Natalie Je...
Boji is a street dog in Istanbul, Turkey, known for regularly riding on the city’s public transport. He is described as being an “Anatolian shepherd mix” and having “golden-brown fur, dark eyes and floppy ears”. He makes use of buses, metro trains, trams, and ferries. He is one...
s biography relates how he received the siddhi of the kīla transmission at the great charnel ground of Rajgriha from a gigantic scorpion with nine heads, eighteen pincers and twenty-seven eyes. This scorpion reveals the kīla texts from a triangular stone box hidden beneath a rock in the ...
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