Mining information from mythology, folklore, religious texts, and fairy tales from around the world, a foremost expert on symbols explains word origins and their meanings. The ultimate symbols are the letters and words in language as Bayley moves beyond mere pictures to understand the vital messages that have been ignored or lost across the centuries.
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Life the universe and everything revealed by watermarks,
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This review is from: The Lost Language Of Symbolism Il: An Inquiry into the Origin of Certain Letters, Words, Names, Fairy-Tales, Folklore, and Mythologies (Paperback)
A weird, wonderful and cranky book. The author advises you to skip the first few chapters because they are a bit obsessive and not very interesting to most people (they are actually fascinating, but it's great to see modesty in an author). The symbolic meaning of watermarks is explained, but that's just the start, soon the book gets in full swing going off on fascinating tangents left right and centre. Ancient myths, the masons, rosicrucians & templars .Lots of highly speculative etymology of words like "cucumber" (translated as "mighty-fire-father" if I remember right). Smashing stuff. Read it and be confused
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This 2 volume set is a must for inquiring minds.,
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This review is from: The Lost Language of Symbolism: An Inquiry into the Origin of Certain Letters, Words, Names, Fairy-Tales, Folklore, and Mythologies (v. 1) (Paperback)
Harold Bayley's work will imortalize this scholar. His global linking of myth, legend and fact is a milestone. This wreat work was written long before the word "diffusion" was outlawed from scholarly endevour. Bayley correctly points out the global scale and diffusion of myth, legend tales and symbolism. The sections concerning Lugh, Hu, Stonehenge and Avebury are must reading for every scholar of the ancients.
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This review is from: The Lost Language of Symbolism (Dover Occult) (Paperback)
This is an unaltered reprint of a book published in 1912. It's primarily interesting as an example of what amateur scholars (especially in Britain) were putting out in that era. Cranky and usually hilariously offbase, but often fun to read. The author's etymological speculations are remarkable: a supposed root AK is the basis of Heracles, zodiac, yak (the animal), akbar ('great' in Arabic): ironically, the correct etymologies of these items were already well-known in 1912, though not, it would seem, to Mr. Bayley. The author's analysis of the Cinderella story will leave your head spinning!
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THIS book, though not written specially with that end, substantiates the tentative conclusions formulated three years ago in A New Light on the Renaissance. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
designs herewith, resplendent fire, parent flame, solar wheel, twin circles, diamond key, mighty light, army with banners, great orb, mighty fire Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jesus Christ, Great Bear, Middle Ages, King Solomon, Holy One, Queen Moo, Hibbert Lectures, Night of Fires, Old Testament, The Perfect Way, Good Shepherd, Fleur de Lys, Great Mother, Holy Ghost, Science of Language, South America, Fire Father, Golden Bough, Religion of Ancient Egypt, Romance of Symbolism, British Museum, Lord of Light, Bible Folk-Lore, Sanctus Spiritus, Wisdom of Solomon New!
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THIS book, though not written specially with that end, substantiates the tentative conclusions formulated three years ago in A New Light on the Renaissance. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
designs herewith, resplendent fire, parent flame, solar wheel, twin circles, diamond key, mighty light, army with banners, great orb, mighty fire Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jesus Christ, Great Bear, Middle Ages, King Solomon, Holy One, Queen Moo, Hibbert Lectures, Night of Fires, Old Testament, The Perfect Way, Good Shepherd, Fleur de Lys, Great Mother, Holy Ghost, Science of Language, South America, Fire Father, Golden Bough, Religion of Ancient Egypt, Romance of Symbolism, British Museum, Lord of Light, Bible Folk-Lore, Sanctus Spiritus, Wisdom of Solomon New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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