Some of the initiation rites include the second reincarnation of the rite's subject as a " son of the Sun ", through a symbolic death and a rebirth in the form of a Sun.

As Clark explains, a symbolic initiation of female Freemasons involved the visiting of ports, a ritual which provides a possible link to the four scenes of ports on the ceiling panel.

In fact, their initiation rituals often involve a symbolic death and resurrection, or symbolic ordeals followed by relief.

" This information includes, in the initiation and instructional / testing phases of the endowment ceremony, certain names and symbolic gestures called tokens and signs.

Piercing has been practiced in a number of indigenous cultures throughout the world, usually as a symbolic rite of passage, a symbolic death and rebirth, an initiation, or for reasons of magical protection.

Author Harold Bloom comments on the variety of explanations ; " Young Goodman Brown has been presented as an allegorical revelation of human depravity, as a symbolic study of sexual initiation, as an inquiry into generational conflict, as a demonstration of Puritan hypocrisy, as evidence of Hawthorn's sympathy towards Puritan society, and even just as an artfully designed short story making no essential reference beyond itself ".

In Apuleius's tale of " Cupid and Psyche " in his Metamorphoses, framed by Lucius's quest for salvation ending with initiation into the mysteries of Isis, Psyche (" Soul ") carries two coins in her journey to the underworld, the second to enable her return or symbolic rebirth.

Even though the initiation ceremonies centered on a five part play expressing the history of the creation of the Swedish nation in allegorical fashion, the symbolic organizational structure was entirely Finnish without reference to Swedish counties or emblems.

The steel and new media installation interrogates the symbolism of the national monument, questioning the balance of its symbolic message during the last two centuries, oscillating between war and peace.

*"( L. 2 ) ( Locality ) A computor can shift attention from one symbolic configuration to another one, but the new observed configurations must be within a bounded distance of the immediately previously observed configuration.

The unification of the two parties was symbolic of the new friendship of German socialists in defeating their common enemy, however, Communists who made a majority had virtually total control over policy.

The revolutionaries were also inspired by Rousseau to introduce Deism as the new official civil religion of France, scandalizing traditionalists: Ceremonial and symbolic occurrences of the more radical phases of the Revolution invoked Rousseau and his core ideas.

She is understood in various and often conflicting aspects, as the embodiment of treachery, the quintessential victim, or simply as symbolic mother of the new Mexican people.

However, historians today stress the symbolic and not the strictly military significance of the battle, for within six months of the defeat a new Ottoman fleet of some 250 sail including eight modern galleasses had been built, with the shipyards of Istanbul turning out a new ship every day at the height of the construction.

His leadership, influence and legacy led to the formation of communities dominated by Gentile groups that worshiped the God of Israel, adhered to the " Judaic moral code ", but relaxed or abandoned the ritual and dietary teachings of the Law of Moses, that these laws and rituals had either been fulfilled in the life of Christ or were symbolic precursors of Christ, all on the basis of Paul's teachings of the life and works of Jesus Christ and his teaching of a New Covenant ( or " new testament ") established through Jesus ' death and resurrection.

In particular, due to its location straddling the erstwhile border between east and west, it was widely perceived as a " linking element ," reconnecting the two halves of the city in a way that was symbolic as well as physical, helping to heal the historical wounds by providing an exciting new mecca attracting Berliners from both sides of the former divide.

The poetry of this image dispenses with any symbolic significance, old or new.

The Stonewall riot acquired symbolic significance for the gay rights movement and came to be seen as the opening of a new phase in the struggle for gay liberation.

Jupiter in Book 4 recalls the lingering Aeneas to his duty to found a new city, and he slips away from Carthage, leaving Dido to commit suicide, cursing Aeneas and calling down revenge in a symbolic anticipation of the fierce wars between Carthage and Rome.

* A mixture of neem flowers and bella ( jaggery or unrefined brown sugar ) is prepared and offered to friends and relatives, symbolic of sweet and bitter events in the upcoming new year.

The new building's exterior is laced with symbolic images of music.

A symbolic element to the new centralisation of the University was the fact that UCL property became property of the University of London.

This process " would have created new words and deployed old words in new contexts, further weakening the uncoupling of words from situations, from current occurrence -- even from fitness ," and thus allowing for the creation of symbolic language.

Fleeing from the new wickedness of humanity, she ascended to heaven to become the constellation Virgo ; the scales of justice she carried became the nearby constellation Libra, reflected in her symbolic association with Justitia in Latin culture.

After reviewing three designs, two of which were patterned after the existing trophy, a new trophy design was selected featuring a glass human figure surrounded by a nickel-coated spiral symbolic of a musical staff situated on a base of aluminum.

The opening of the new purpose built company headquarters in Kingsway, London in 1921, and the pioneering industrial research laboratories at Wembley in 1923, were symbolic of the continuing expansion of both GEC and the electrical industry.

This gained new symbolic meaning with the rise of British influence, and later the British Empire, which at its height ruled over a third of the world's population and landmass.

As he now represented Osiris, when the Apis bull reached the age of twenty-eight, the age when Osiris was said to have been killed by Set, symbolic of the lunar month, and the new moon, the bull was put to death with a great sacrificial ceremony.

Having chosen an appropriate animal as a totem for the lodge, the committee turned to finding a new name, which was supposed to be symbolic of the Native American background of the Order of the Arrow.

" The first phase ( of separation ) comprises symbolic behaviour signifying the detachment of the individual or group ... from an earlier fixed point in the social structure.

" There is often a detachment or " cutting away " from the former self in this phase, which is signified in symbolic actions and rituals.

The Rosicrucian Fellowship and kindred groups of rosicrucianists, promulgating an Esoteric Christian viewpoint, hold that the Rosicrucian Brotherhood was founded in the early 14th century, or between the 13th and 14th centuries, as an Invisible College of mystic sages, by a highly evolved entity having the symbolic name of Christian Rosenkreuz in order " to prepare a new phase of the Christian religion to be used during the coming age now at hand, for as the world and man evolve so also must religion change ".

* A wolf was depicted at the standard's head, symbolic animal of the Carpathian people since the phase B of Hallstatt Period ( 10th – 8th century BC ).

; and in ' the first phase ( of separation ) comprises symbolic behaviour signifying the detachment of the individual ... from an earlier fixed point in the social structure.

Some scholars have suggested that Amos ’ s reference to Edom is symbolic of all nations who were once enemies of Israel and not meant to literally mean Edomites in the flesh.

Edom is symbolic of the remnant of men and Gentiles who will eventually bear God ’ s name.

A satirical song published in The Times newspaper of 1789 referring to the rumoured clandestine marriage between Prince Regent and Mrs. Fitzherbert also reflects this symbolic usage of the broomstick imagery: “ Their way to consummation was by hopping o ’ er a broom, sir ”, and there are plentiful other examples of ‘ broomstick ’ being using in other contemporary contexts but all with a similar implication of dubiousness or fakery.

When the narrator cuts Pluto ’ s eye from its socket, this can be seen as symbolic of self-inflicted partial blindness to his own vision of moral goodness.

The construction of Swedbank ’ s headquarters is symbolic of the importance of Scandinavian banks in Vilnius.

In Du " Cubisme " Metzinger and Gleizes explicitly related the sense of time to multiple perspective, giving symbolic expression to the notion of ‘ duration ’ proposed by the philosopher Henri Bergson according to which life is subjectively experienced as a continuum, with the past flowing into the present and the present merging into the future.

According to this view the psychological ‘ I ’ is a narrative fiction, something created only from intake of symbolic data and its own ability to create stories about itself from that data.

There was a debate in Shakespeare ’ s time about what nature really was like, a debate that pervades the play and finds symbolic expression in Lear ’ s changing attitude to Thunder.

Catalan Landscape ( The Hunter ) and the Tilled Field, two of Miró ’ s first works classified as Surrealist, employ the symbolic language that was to dominate the art of the next decade.

The already symbolic and poetic nature of Miró ’ s work, as well as the dualities and contradictions inherent to it, fit well within the context of dream-like automatism espoused by the group.

Miró ’ s work rarely dipped into non-objectivity, maintaining a symbolic, schematic language.

The Temple of Heaven was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998 and was described as " a masterpiece of architecture and landscape design which simply and graphically illustrates a cosmogony of great importance for the evolution of one of the world ’ s great civilizations ..." as the " symbolic layout and design of the Temple of Heaven had a profound influence on architecture and planning in the Far East over many centuries.

The symbolic king ’ s inner palace, decorated in blue faience, is much more complete than that of the pyramid.

The eagle is thought to be symbolic of America ’ s freedom from England and relays the idea of independence.

He accentuated the reversal of the classical orientation of the Capitoline, in a symbolic gesture turning Rome ’ s civic center to face away from the Roman Forum and instead in the direction of Papal Rome and the Christian church in the form of St. Peter ’ s Basilica.

O does everything physically possible to avoid being seen by others but the only thing he can do to avoid perception by an “ all seeing god ” is to tear up his picture, a symbolic act, as if saying, “ If I don ’ t believe you exist you can ’ t see me .” There is no one there to see him for what he really is other than himself and so, in this godless world, it is only fitting that E, representing O's self-perception, would appear standing where the picture has been torn from the wall.

The Salk Institute ’ s open environment teeming with empty space is symbolic of an open environment for creation, the symmetry stands for scientific precision, and submerging crevasses allow warm, natural light to enter the buildings like the intellectual light that leads to discovery.

Guaguancó is also a couple ’ s dance that is a symbolic game of flirtation that is sexually initiated.

* Provide a monumental, dignified, and symbolic setting for the governmental structures, museums and national memorials as first delineated by the L ’ Enfant plan and further outlined in the McMillan plan.

Reflecting on the relationship between the obvious symbolic meaning of a photograph ( which he called the studium ) and that which is purely personal and dependent on the individual, that which ‘ pierces the viewer ’ ( which he called the punctum ), Barthes was troubled by the fact that such distinctions collapse when personal significance is communicated to others and can have its symbolic logic rationalized.