The symbolism in the book expands on these as a struggle between good and evil ( light and darkness ), not so much between people as in every major character's soul.

The symbolism of prayer is so strong it assists the devotee to concentrate on the virtues of Arihantas and Thirthankaras.

As Arab contact with the West expanded, so too did the game and its various permutations, and by the twelfth century, chess was becoming an entertaining diversion among a growing population of Europeans, including some scholars, clergy, the aristocracy, and the merchant classes ; thus, by the thirteenth century, the iconography and symbolism associated with chess would have been accessible and familiar to Alfonso and his literate court culture, who may have had access to the private library, and manuscripts, of Alfonso, including the Libro de juegos.

Perhaps in our generation the counsel of our Talmudic sages may seem superfluous, for today the story of our enslavement in Egypt is kept alive not only by ritualistic symbolism, but even more so by tragic realism.

" She cites the goals of feminist criticism as: ( 1 ) To develop and uncover a female tradition of writing, ( 2 ) to interpret symbolism of women's writing so that it will not be lost or ignored by the male point of view, ( 3 ) to rediscover old texts, ( 4 ) to analyze women writers and their writings from a female perspective, ( 5 ) to resist sexism in literature, and ( 6 ) to increase awareness of the sexual politics of language and style.

Diana Glenn interprets the symbolism in Myrrha's contrapasso as being that her sin is so unnatural and unlawful that she is forced to abandon human society and simultaneously she loses her identity.

In Belgium, symbolism became so popular that it came to be thought of as a national style: the static strangeness of painters like René Magritte can be considered as a direct continuation of symbolism.

In art and symbolism, a crescent () is generally the shape produced when a circular disk has a segment of another circle removed from its edge, so that what remains is a shape enclosed by two circular arcs of different diameters which intersect at two points ( usually in such a manner that the enclosed shape does not include the center of the original circle ).

Many of these minor decorative elements are imbued with Christian symbolism and so further emphasise the themes of the major illustrations.

" According to this view, the verses were drinking songs in so far as the symposium was understood to be a microcosm of society, where multiple views were an aspect of adaptive behaviour by the embattled aristocracy, and where even eroticism had political symbolism: " As the polis envisaged by Theognis is degenerate, erotic relationships are filled with pain ..."

Perhaps in our generation the counsel of our Talmudic sages may seem superfluous, for today the story of our enslavement in Egypt is kept alive not only by ritualistic symbolism, but even more so by tragic realism.

The more usual double-headed instrument of Hephaestus is the double-headed smith's hammer so the symbolism is important.

In an article on Buddhist elements in Han art, Wu Hung suggests that in these tombs, Buddhist iconography was so well incorporated into native Chinese traditions that a unique system of symbolism had been developed.

Per Hansa is a Norwegian immigrant who was a fisherman in Norway before coming to the plains of South Dakota and so the symbolism of the caul is important to these particular immigrants.

The " Holy Crown " ( referred to in the media as the " Hungarian Crown ", so as to prevent it carrying a political symbolism of the Horthy régime or an allusion to Christianity ) and regalia of Hungarian kings was returned to Budapest by the United States in 1978.

The practice of a nazirite vow is part of the ambiguity of the Greek term " Nazarene " that appears in the New Testament ; the sacrifice of a lamb and the offering of bread does suggest a relationship with Christian symbolism ( then again, these are the two most frequent offerings prescribed in Leviticus, so no definitive conclusions can be drawn ).

In France, Madeleine Pelletier was equally sceptical about historical patriarchy, but more so some of her colleagues flowery symbolism which she suspected was actually confining.

As the Italians Fascists adapted elements of their ethnic heritage to fuel a sense of nationalism by use of symbolism, so did Nazi Germany.

An ongoing piece of symbolism in the first half of the film is the lack of conversation between one miner and his wife, until she finally criticises him harshly for not making a show of resistance against the closure, when he had been so full of fight in 1984.

A Heart cut diamond has romantic symbolism so it is a common gift for Valentine's Day or wedding anniversary.

The simulacra that Baudrillard refers to are the significations and symbolism of culture and media that construct perceived reality, the acquired understanding by which our lives and shared existence is and are rendered legible ; Baudrillard believed that society has become so saturated with these simulacra and our lives so saturated with the constructs of society that all meaning was being rendered meaningless by being infinitely mutable.

While legal to build there, many saw the symbolism of a “ Wal mart ” so close to the archeological site threatening.

From the 1960s and 1970s onward, language, symbolism, text, and meaning came to be seen as the theoretical foundation for the humanities, through the influence of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ferdinand de Saussure, George Herbert Mead, Noam Chomsky, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida and other thinkers in linguistic and analytic philosophy, structural linguistics, symbolic interactionism, hermeneutics, semiology, linguistically oriented psychoanalysis ( Jacques Lacan, Alfred Lorenzer ), and deconstruction.

Alfred Jarry united symbolism with elements from marionette theater and a kind of proto-surrealism.

* The Ascension of the Lord S. V. Bulgakov, Manual for Church Servers ( theology and symbolism of the Feast )

The studies The Great Triad, Traditional Forms & Cosmic Cycles, Insights into Islamic Esoterism & Taoism and The King of the World ( alternately translated as Lord of the World ) are also mostly about symbolism.

This was Lord Byron's favorite painting because the ambiguity of both its subject matter and symbolism allowed viewers to make up their own tale.

The CHA is the Canadian counterpart of the College of Arms in London, Court of the Lord Lyon in Scotland and the Office of the Chief Herald of Ireland in The Republic of Ireland and is well known for its innovative designs, many incorporating First Nations symbolism.

Revolving around celestial symbolism, Constellations earned the artist praise from André Breton, who seventeen years later wrote a series of poems, named after and inspired by Miró's series.

Crosby maintained a coterie of young ladies that he frequently bedded, and wrote and published poetry that dwelled on the symbolism of the sun and explored themes of death and suicide.

Additionally, Schwartz wrote and lectured on superheroes, and received a Canada Council Grant for a study on religious symbolism in popular culture, using Superman as a springboard.

Kennedy, who wrote a thesis on appeasement while at Harvard, Why England Slept, might have recognized the symbolism of the umbrella.

Moving to Studio Deen, he wrote and directed Angel's Egg ( 1985 ), a surreal film rich with Biblical symbolism, featuring the character designs of Yoshitaka Amano.

In her explorations of the depiction of African characters in white American literature, Morrison wrote " no early American writer is more important to the concept of American Africanism than Poe " because of the focus on symbolism of black and white in Poe's novel.

* Studies in symbolism ( comprising many articles he wrote for the journal Le Voile d ’ Isis which became later known under the name Etudes Traditionnelles ).

Bernard wrote about his relationship with the style of symbolism in many letters, articles, and statements.

Czech poet Ladislav Novák wrote a poem called Giorgione's Tempest where Meister Eckhart explains its symbolism in a wealthy man's study ( according to him, the man is a shepherd who represents Giorgione and the lady is a woman the painter loves but cannot hope his love will be requited ) and then he's shot and, wounded, falls to an orchestra pit.

Concerning the symbolism within the film, Vincent Canby of the New York Times wrote: " they're all there, in a movie that is all guts ( quite literally ) but that has no body to give the guts particular shape or function.

" Two brothers, archaeologists John and Morton Edgar, as personal associates and supporters of Russell, wrote extensive treatises on the history, nature, and prophetic symbolism of the Great Pyramid in relation to the then known archaeological history, along with their interpretations of prophetic and Biblical chronology.

He initially aspired to be a writer and wrote many poems and stories in the style of French symbolism, most of which remained unpublished.

The survivors, veterans and journalists wrote numerous memoirs, songs and testimonies about the battle and its symbolism, calling it variously " the phenomenon ", " the pride ", " the hell " and " the Croatian knight ".