The unvarying essential meanings of around 1,000 symbols and symbolic themes commonly found in the art, literature and thought of all cultures through the ages are clarified.
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`Images and their significance defined in a remarkable reference work.' - Linda O'Callaghan, Sunday Telegraph
`The author's erudition shines through the several hundred items in the dictionary, many of them scholarly essays in their own right. A volume for browsing and learning.' - Psychological Medicine
`The author's erudition shines through the several hundred items in the dictionary, many of them scholarly essays in their own right. A volume for browsing and learning.' - Psychological Medicine
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A sacred way of looking at the outer world,
By OAKSHAMAN "oakshaman" (Algoma, WI United States) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)
This review is from: Dictionary of Symbols (Routledge Dictionaries) (Paperback)
This is one of the most frequently used and most deeply pondered works of my permanent collection. It is, in my humble opinion, the best single volume on the subject of symbols and symbolism written in modern times.
Symbolism is a sacred way of looking at the outer world. It is a way of connecting the outer and inner worlds. A materialist sees, let's say an eagle, and simply sees a bird, while a symbolist sees an eagle and sees a message, a lesson, or a sermon. To the symbolist, the eagle also represents height, spirit, the sun, nobility, power, the lion of the air, etc. The symbolist doesn't totally ignore the materialist and mundane aspect of the eagle, he just realises that there is immeasurably MORE behind it. The introduction of this book is an excellent essay of the symbolist mind-set. It covers symbolism in platonic thought, hermetism, renaissance thought, alchemy, heraldry, dream symbolism, as well as, the views of Goethe, Saunier, Bele, Guenon, Eliade, Scheider, and, of course, Jung. The body of the book is in dictionary form with concise but comprehensive descriptions of topics from a historic and multi-cultural viewpoint. This is assisted by the many excellent line drawings, as well as, two sections of carefully chosen black and white photographs. This is a book of correspondenses, of resonance, of the common rythym that connects things with a higher, sacred place. You learn that there are immeasurable depths to creation- and that you have merely been skipping across the surface of that creation like a stone across deep waters....
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anserated cross, accursed hunter, mediaeval emblems, baser forces, sigmoid line, mediaeval iconography, mystic centre, general symbolism, great many legends, tradizione ermetica, zodiacal symbolism, determinative sign, sacrificial stake, graphic symbolism, primordial monster, polar mountain, basic symbolism, common rhythm, megalithic culture, ambivalent symbol, lower ocean, symbolist tradition, spatial symbolism, common emblems, planetary gods Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Far East, Hanged Man, Round Table, Great Mother, Virgin Mary, René Guénon, Chinese Buddhism, Luc Benoist, Mircea Eliade, Wheel of Transformations, Chinese Yang-Yin, Ely Star, Gaston Bachelard, Raymond Lull, Asia Minor, Eliphas Lévi, Heinrich Zimmer, Medusa the Gorgon, Milky Way, Oswald Wirth, Promised Land, Rabanus Maurus, Sleeping Beauty, Terrible Mother New!
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anserated cross, accursed hunter, mediaeval emblems, baser forces, sigmoid line, mediaeval iconography, mystic centre, general symbolism, great many legends, tradizione ermetica, zodiacal symbolism, determinative sign, sacrificial stake, graphic symbolism, primordial monster, polar mountain, basic symbolism, common rhythm, megalithic culture, ambivalent symbol, lower ocean, symbolist tradition, spatial symbolism, common emblems, planetary gods Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Far East, Hanged Man, Round Table, Great Mother, Virgin Mary, René Guénon, Chinese Buddhism, Luc Benoist, Mircea Eliade, Wheel of Transformations, Chinese Yang-Yin, Ely Star, Gaston Bachelard, Raymond Lull, Asia Minor, Eliphas Lévi, Heinrich Zimmer, Medusa the Gorgon, Milky Way, Oswald Wirth, Promised Land, Rabanus Maurus, Sleeping Beauty, Terrible Mother New!
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