A special plaque next to the Shiva statue explains the significance of the metaphor of Shiva's cosmic dance with quotations from Fritjof Capra: " Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes.

However, there is mention in Atharvaveda of demonic Brahmans called Dasagva ( ten-headed ) and Navagva ( nine-headed ) and the metaphor of a supernatural number of bodyparts to symbolize powers is an ancient one in Indian mythic depictions.

In his analysis of the Tao Te Ching, Victor H. Mair notes that the jewel metaphor was already widely used in Indian religious metaphor before the Tao Te Ching was written.

West Indian calypsonians participate annually in songwriting competitions with the common use of double entendre, humour and metaphor as well as monikers to avoid legal complications ( see Calypso Music ).

As elsewhere in Indian poetry-see Sringara-the sensual pleasure of union extends beyond the physical level and becomes a path to, and a metaphor for, spirituality and ultimate union with the divine.

As elsewhere in Indian poetry, the sensual pleasure of union extends beyond the physical level and becomes a path to, and a metaphor for, spirituality and ultimate union with the divine.

But to go from here to the belief that those more sensitive to metaphor and language will also be more sensitive to personal differences is too great an inferential leap.

) The meaning is clear and uncomplicated, the subject is drawn from personal experience, and there is an absence of poetic ornament, such as simile or metaphor.

Some of this knowledge is in the form of facts that can be explicitly represented, but some knowledge is unconscious and closely tied to the human body: for example, the machine may need to understand how an ocean makes one feel to accurately translate a specific metaphor in the text.

It is possible these events, like the paintings, are full of rich metaphor or in the case of the animals of the desert, perhaps a vision or dream.

* Chapters 1-2 ; Account of Hosea's marriage with Gomer biographically which is a metaphor for the relationship with Yahweh and Israel.

In Hosea 2, the woman in the marriage metaphor is Hosea ’ s wife Gomer.

Hosea is believed to be the first prophet to use marriage as a metaphor of the covenant between God and Israel, and he influenced latter prophets such as Jeremiah.

Claret is an " agreeable " wine, and a metaphor for the party's harmonious internal relations compared to those of the strife-torn Labour Party of the period.

"... One major contribution of AI and cognitive science to psychology has been the information processing model of human thinking in which the metaphor of brain-as-computer is taken quite literally.

" Cyberpunk is often set in urbanized, artificial landscapes, and " city lights, receding " was used by Gibson as one of the genre's first metaphor s for cyberspace.

It has also been critiqued as being unhelpful for falsely employing a spatial metaphor to describe what is inherently a network.

The strife among these cousins is a metaphor for the conflict between the lower appetites and civilized behavior in humankind.

A macrosopic metaphor for chain reactions is thus a snowball causing larger snowfall until finally an avalanche results (" snowball effect ").

Note that the so-called Kinshasa Highway is not a physical road but a metaphor applied to the route by which AIDS is believed to have been spread east through Uganda and Kenya and neighbouring countries by truck drivers from the Congo.

When the cause of a disease is poorly understood, societies tend to mythologize the disease or use it as a metaphor or symbol of whatever that culture considers to be evil.

Two of the most popular of the period were of Pomona ( goddess of orchards ) as a metaphor for Agriculture, and Diana, representing Commerce, which is a perpetual hunt for advantage and profits.

The metaphor of the ' path ' of Daena is represented in Zoroastrianism by the muslin undershirt Sudra, the ' Good / Holy Path ', and the 72-thread Kushti girdle, the " Pathfinder ".

Derrida warns against considering deconstruction as a mechanical operation when he states that “ It is true that in certain circles ( university or cultural, especially in the United States ) the technical and methodological “ metaphor ” that seems necessarily attached to the very word “ deconstruction ” has been able to seduce or lead astray .” Commentator Richard Beardsworth explains that

In some applications, especially in logic, the alphabet is also known as the vocabulary and words are known as formulas or sentences ; this breaks the letter / word metaphor and replaces it by a word / sentence metaphor.

A good metaphor for this is searching for a book in a library without the reference number, title, author or even subject.

Or, equally often, a concretistic-seeming, particularistic-seeming statement may consist, with its mundane exterior, in a form of poetry -- may be full of meaning and emotion when interpreted as a figurative expression: a metaphor, a smile, an allegory, or some other symbolic mode of speaking.

Similarly, it is often used today as a metaphor for a brainless lunk or entity who serves man under controlled conditions but is hostile to him under others.

Lovecraft's style has often been criticised by unsympathetic critics, yet scholars such as S. T. Joshi have shown that Lovecraft consciously utilised a variety of literary devices to form a unique style of his own-these include conscious archaism, prose-poetic techniques combined with essay-form techniques, alliteration, anaphora, crescendo, transferred epithet, metaphor, symbolism and colloquialism.

This form is often used as a parody of metaphor itself: " If we can hit that bull's-eye then the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards ...

Vivid images are often endowed with symbolism or metaphor.

An often cited metaphor for naturalness is pu (; lit.

Members of The Underground Railroad often used specific jargon, based on the metaphor of the railway.

His eclectic philosophy often mirrored his fighting beliefs, though he was quick to claim that his martial arts were solely a metaphor for such teachings.

An animal called the re ’ em () is mentioned in several places in the Hebrew Bible, often as a metaphor representing strength.

This view is supported by the Assyrian rimu, which is often used as a metaphor of strength, and is depicted as a powerful, fierce, wild mountain bull with large horns.

Many novels combine both, often as a metaphor for the different directions humanity can take in its choices, ending up with one of two possible futures.

Lakoff further argues that one of the reasons liberals have had difficulty since the 1980s is that they have not been as aware of their own guiding metaphors, and have too often accepted conservative terminology framed in a way to promote the strict father metaphor.

They are often " like a " disease, argued Szasz, which makes the medical metaphor understandable, but in no way validates it as an accurate description or explanation.

In particular, Petruchio is prone to comparing her to a hawk ( 2. 1. 8 and 4. 1. 188 – 211 ), often adhering to an overarching hunting metaphor (" My falcon now is sharp and passing empty ,/ And till she stoop she must not be full-gorged ").

* Organic ( model ), forms, methods and patterns found in living systems, often used as a metaphor for non-living things

This statement is often misconstrued: Bevan argued that unilateralism would result in Britain's loss of allies, and one interpretation of his metaphor is that nakedness would come from the lack of allies, not the lack of weapons.

Bell often uses the metaphor of obesity for wealth, and frequently The Penguin becomes overweight and highly materialistic ; for example, becoming a stockbroker, running privatised prisons, or running a populist tabloid newspaper similar to Rupert Murdoch's The Sun.

They mention the possibility that this was because there were often two or more emperors at that time as augusti, caesares and other titles, and later separate rulers in Constantinople and Rome, but also that " plurality is a very old and ubiquitous metaphor for power ".

Such elements include the essential idea of narrative structure, with identifiable beginnings, middles and endings, or exposition-development-climax-resolution-denouement, normally constructed into coherent plot lines ; a strong focus on temporality, which includes retention of the past, attention to present action, and protention / future anticipation ; a substantial focus on characters and characterization which is " arguably the most important single component of the novel "; a given heterogloss of different voices dialogically at play – " the sound of the human voice, or many voices, speaking in a variety of accents, rhythms and registers "; possesses a narrator or narrator-like voice, which by definition " addresses " and " interacts with " reading audiences ( see Reader Response theory ); communicates with a Wayne Booth-esque rhetorical thrust, a dialectic process of interpretation, which is at times beneath the surface, conditioning a plotted narrative, and other at other times much more visible, " arguing " for and against various positions ; relies substantially on now-standard aesthetic figuration, particularly including the use of metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche and irony ( see Hayden White, Metahistory for expansion of this idea ); is often enmeshed in intertextuality, with copious connections, references, allusions, similarities, parallels, etc.

It is often used as a metaphor for an intractable problem solved easily by cheating or " thinking outside the box ".

The name Kalki is often a metaphor for eternity or time.

Although not all people in Neverland cease to age, its best known resident famously refused to grow up, and it is often used as a metaphor for eternal childhood ( and childishness ), immortality, and escapism.

There is no such thing as a " left-handed screwdriver "; to be sent to find one is a fool's errand, often used as a test of stupidity, or is used as a metaphor for something useless.