Book Description
Provides an inventory of symbols from various cultures, including the symbolism in art, literature, dreams, and numbers.
Author : Didier Colin
Publisher : Hachette Illustrated UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,85 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781844300259
Provides an inventory of symbols from various cultures, including the symbolism in art, literature, dreams, and numbers.
Author : Didier Colin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,89 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Legends
ISBN :
Author : Jack Tresidder
Publisher : Duncan Baird Publishers
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 46,98 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Advertising campaigns
ISBN : 9781844830138
Covering classical and other mythologies, biblical themes and the world of traditional symbols from cultures worldwide, this is a guide to more than 2000 major themes, figures and symbols that have been most commonly encountered from ancient times to the present day.
Author : J. E. Cirlot
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 25,93 MB
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1504085655
This classic encyclopedia of symbols by the renowned Spanish poet illuminates the imagery of myth, modern psychology, literature, and art. J. E. Cirlot’s A Dictionary of Symbols is a feat of scholarship, an act of the imagination, and a tool for contemplation, as well as a work of literature—a reference book that is as indispensable as it is brilliant and learned. Cirlot was a composer, poet, critic, and champion of modern art whose interest in surrealism helped introduce him to the study of symbolism. This volume explores the space between the world at large and the world within, where nothing is meaningless, and everything is in some way related to something else. Running from “abandonment” to “zone” by way of “flute” and “whip,” spanning the cultures of the world, and including a wealth of visual images to further bring the reality of the symbol home, A Dictionary of Symbols is a luminous and illuminating investigation of the works of eternity in time.
Author : Barbara G. Walker
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 2626 pages
File Size : 17,76 MB
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0062288873
This fascinating guide to the history and mythology of woman-related symbols features: Unique organization by shape of symbol or type of sacred object 21 different sections including Round and Oval Motifs, Sacred Objects, Secular-Sacred Objects, Rituals, Deities' Signs, Supernaturals, Body Parts, Nature, Birds, Plants, Minerals, Stones and Shells, and more Introductory essays for each section 753 entries and 636 illustrations Alphabetical index for easy reference Three-Rayed Sun The sun suspended in heaven by three powers, perhaps the Triple Goddess who gave birth to it (see Three-Way Motifs). Corn Dolly An embodiment of the harvest to be set in the center of the harvest dance, or fed to the cattle to `make them thrive year round' (see Secular-Sacred Objects). Tongue In Asia, the extended tongue was a sign of life-force as the tongue between the lips imitated the sacred lingam-yoni: male within female genital. Sticking out the tongue is still a polite sign of greeting in northern India and Tibet (see Body Parts). Cosmic Egg In ancient times the primeval universe-or the Great Mother-took the form of an egg. It carried all numbers and letters within an ellipse, to show that everything is contained within one form at the beginning (see Round and Oval Motifs).
Author : Gertrude Jobes
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 35,58 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810816978
A timeless classic.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 34,15 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780933029842
This new edition of Chiron's popular guide to the meaning of symbols in religion, archaeology, mythology, art, dreams, fairy tales, and literature contains more than 1,000 entries from all over the world, revealing an abundance of the types of human symbolic thinking. Formerly titled The Herder Symbol Dictionary. Over 450 illustrations.
Author : Gertrude Jobes
Publisher :
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 13,1 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Folklore
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Author : Maria Leach
Publisher :
Page : 1236 pages
File Size : 48,83 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9780450024412
Author : Gertrude Jobes
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 22,25 MB
Release : 2011-10-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781258173692