This is a remarkable dictionary, exploring the vast and various symbols which abound in literature, religion, national identity and are found at the very heart of our dreams and sub-conscious. Compiled by an international team of experts, each entry is given its complete range of interpretations - sexual and spiritual, official and subversive, cultural and religious - to bring meaning and insight to the symbol.
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Jean Chevalier was a university lecturer in philosophy and theology before working for UNESCO. He subsequently devoted himself to writing and research, publishing many works on religion and spirituality. He died in 1993. Alain Gheerbrant is a well-known poet and travel-writer, living in Paris. John Buchanan-Brown is a long-established and gifted translator of French books.
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This is a thinker's dictionary, not a guide to road signs and icons. The editors took the trouble to recruit symbol experts from many different professions, ranging from the paranormal to the skeptical academic. The result is a dictionary with entries that have more depth than the usual "quick hits" that other symbolism dictionaries give you. Chevalier is not afraid to give contradictory or contrasting meanings of icons. (He is not a universalist, but a relativist.) He is usually careful to identify the culture in which a particular meaning is given. I keep this in easy reach on my bookshelf, reminding myself, however, that no dictionary on this subject can possibly cover all the meanings a symbol may have. It is worth having around.
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excellent dictionary in scope and depth,
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i have known this dictionary in the french original for about 20 years now and recommend it again and again to students. i have always hoped that it could become available for non french readers. finally! as a jungian analyst, i find the dictionary extremely helpful: it does an extraordinary job of displaying the breadth of symbolic meanings involved in so many symbols that are still very much alive in people today. the refence to various cultures is especially important in our multi-cultural world.. i am very thankful for this translation into english and hope the german translation will follow soon.
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Best esoteric symbol interpretation I have seen,
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I have about a dozen symbol books... most of the classics. This one is the best for interpreting those strange symbols in your dreams, daydreams, etc. It is not the shallow stupid interpretations "you are going on a journey..." stuff, but true archetypical and esoteric interpretations.
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world axis, cosmic egg, world egg, golden fleece, cosmic tree, upper waters, tracing board, emerald table, world axes, twin heroes, golden number, chthonian fire, release from the cosmos, celestial semen, major arcanum, eternal homecoming, primordial hermaphrodite, fecundating rain, chthonian world, subtle centres, modem psychoanalysis, twofold symbolism, nocturnal aspect, symbolic ambivalence, same ideogram Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Testament, Ancient Egyptian, First Cause, Children of Israel, Tree of Life, Holy Spirit, Middle Ages, Mircea Eliade, Pole Star, Song of Solomon, Chuang Tzu, Book of Revelation, Our Lady, Paul Diel, Ancient China, Angelus Silesius, Far East, Great Bear, Milky Way, Philosopher's Stone, The Secret of the Golden Flower, Ancient Greece, Garden of Eden, Heavenly Jerusalem, New Year New!
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world axis, cosmic egg, world egg, golden fleece, cosmic tree, upper waters, tracing board, emerald table, world axes, twin heroes, golden number, chthonian fire, release from the cosmos, celestial semen, major arcanum, eternal homecoming, primordial hermaphrodite, fecundating rain, chthonian world, subtle centres, modem psychoanalysis, twofold symbolism, nocturnal aspect, symbolic ambivalence, same ideogram Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Testament, Ancient Egyptian, First Cause, Children of Israel, Tree of Life, Holy Spirit, Middle Ages, Mircea Eliade, Pole Star, Song of Solomon, Chuang Tzu, Book of Revelation, Our Lady, Paul Diel, Ancient China, Angelus Silesius, Far East, Great Bear, Milky Way, Philosopher's Stone, The Secret of the Golden Flower, Ancient Greece, Garden of Eden, Heavenly Jerusalem, New Year New!
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