If communication with an entity on the `` other side '' is taking place, this too may assume the form of clairvoyant symbolism.

All artists do work that comes out of the unconscious mind and later on you can analyze it and say the symbolism may mean something, but artists don ’ t think that way and I would bet my life that James Whale would never have had such concepts in mind.

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.

Modern religious groups tend to avoid such symbolism and some may be quite uncomfortable with the concept.

The symbolism of the donkey may refer to the Eastern tradition that it is an animal of peace, versus the horse, which is the animal of war.

As the primary teacher of tribal symbolism, the shaman may have a leading role in this ecological management, actively restricting hunting and fishing.

The Lodge of Instruction provides the Officers and those who wish to become Officers an opportunity to rehearse ritual under the guidance of an experienced brother ; there may also be lectures around the ritual and the symbolism in the lodge within a Lodge of Instruction, in order to develop the knowledge and understanding of the membership.

The tribe may have been named after the deer because it had a totemistic significance in Germanic symbolism.

This symbolism may help explain Tess as a personification of nature — lovely, fecund, and exploitable — while animal imagery throughout the novel strengthens the association.

" Although different people may attribute personal symbolism to the individual colours or colour combinations, " no universal symbolism should be attached to any of the colours.

Artifacts from pre-dynastic times depict cow deities using the same symbolism as used in later times for Hathor and Egyptologists speculate that these deities may be one and the same or precursors to Hathor.

The symbolism of the step pyramid form, which did not survive the 3rd Dynasty, is unknown, but it has been suggested that it may be a monumental symbol of the crown, especially the royal mortuary cult, since seven small step pyramids ( not tombs ) were built in the provinces.

Despite its basis in religious symbolism ( the triptych ) and less-than-subtle imagery ( the crucifixion ), the paintings are difficult to attach specifically to traditional Christian symbolism, and may act on the viewers subliminally.

Active spiritual or aesthetic inquiry may be elicited from the viewer in the same way as a religious icon having specific symbolism.

" Although there may be some symbolism attributed to it ( i. e., long life, health and energy in the upcoming year ), this tradition may be regarded as largely pragmatic: the traditional wife, busy cooking several days ' worth of food for everyone, would likely prefer to make something simple for immediate consumption.

The symbolism of violet, white, green, red, gold, black, rose and other colours may serve to underline moods appropriate to a season of the liturgical year or may highlight a special occasion.

While some bands write lyrics in introspective and personal ways, others convey their themes using symbolism – which may be inspired by literature.

In the 19th century, it was related to other movements such as symbolism or decadence represented in France, or decadentismo represented in Italy, and may be considered the British version of the same style.

The symbolism of him fetching a reed may be a nod to his occupation as a farmer, as well as a commentary to his destructive nature.

2 of which was published at his own expense ), Frege attempted to derive, by use of his symbolism, all of the laws of arithmetic from axioms he asserted as logical.

yet some must have survived, because the old interest in number symbolism, divination, and magic persisted on into the Han dynasty, which succeeded in reuniting China and keeping it together for a longer period ( from 202 B.C. to A.D. 220 ).

( This contrasted with Malinowski's functionalism, and was quite different from the later French structuralism, which examined the conceptual structures in language and symbolism.

His commissions included The Triumphal Arch, a vast work printed from 192 separate blocks, the symbolism of which is partly informed by Pirckheimer's translation of Horapollo's Hieroglyphica.

Any symbolism has been added later to the three colours, although the orange comes from the House of Orange-Nassau.

Italian Fascism, which derives its name from the fasces, arguably used this symbolism the most in the 20th century.

Levi created his image of Baphomet, published in his Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie ( 1855 ), by combining symbolism from diverse traditions, including the Diable card of the 16th and 17th century Tarot of Marseille.

The following verse from the Torah underscores that symbolism: " And they embittered ( ve-yimareru וימררו ) their lives with hard labor, with mortar and with bricks and with all manner of labor in the field ; any labor that they made them do was with hard labor " ( Exodus 1: 14 ).

It abandoned former communist symbolism: the red star was removed from the national flag, and the communist coat of arms was replaced by a white double-headed eagle with the arms of both Serbia and Montenegro within it.

" Lecha Dodi ", a 16th century liturgical song with strong Kabbalistic symbolism, contains many passages, including its opening two words, taken directly from Song of Songs.

The symbolism of French suited tarot trumps depart considerably from the older Italian suited design.

* The Prisoner Video Companion, 1990: a 48-minute American production with clips, including a few from Danger Man, and voice-over narration discussing origins, interpretations, meaning, symbolism, etc., in a format modelled on the 1988 Warner book, The Official Prisoner Companion by Matthew White and Jaffer Ali.

Medieval poetical literature is full of allusions that can be traced to the Physiologus tradition ; the text also exerted great influence on the symbolism of medieval ecclesiastical art: symbols like those of the phoenix rising from its ashes and the pelican feeding her young with her own blood are still well-known.

Trefoil ( from Latin, " three-leaved plant ", French, Italian, German and ) is a graphic form composed of the outline of three overlapping rings used in architecture and Christian symbolism.

The religious symbolism is probably left over from the SCU's association with the Camorra.

The new generation of poets distanced themselves from both the neo-romantics and the modernists: led by S. K. Neumann, their work focused on concrete reality, free of any pathos, or complicated symbolism.

For Debussy, the musician and the man, I have had profound admiration, but by nature I am different from Debussy .” Ravel further stated, “ I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy .”

" 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.

During late 19th century Germany and Vienna, symbolism from ancient Greece was reinterpreted through a new Freudian prism.

His style changed over time from more traditional watercolour landscapes to a unique mixture of pencil and watercolour resulting in dense and busy works full of symbolism.

It was made of sacred woods and leathers from different animals, each of which had important 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.

During the last period of her lifetime, her works developed from her usual psychologic style to become more akin to symbolism in its more cryptic form.