Reverse Symbolism Dictionary: Symbols Listed by Subject - Hardcover

 
9780899505619: Reverse Symbolism Dictionary: Symbols Listed by Subject

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This is a companion volume to Olderr's Symbolism: A Comprehensive Dictionary. The earlier dictionary was arranged by symbol and told what the meanings were. The present work goes the other way (but it is not simply a refiguring of the data). It presents ideas, situations or objects (ancient to modern), and gives the appropriate symbols (allusions, associations, attributes, or emblems).
Some examples are: one of the symbols for "hell" is descending stairs; an attribute of Saint Benedict is a raven; joy after sorrow is symbolized by the gemstone amber. Literary, artistic, religious, heraldic, numerological, folkloric, occult, psychological, and biblical usages are included.

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9780786421251: Reverse Symbolism Dictionary: Symbols Listed by Subject

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ISBN 10:  0786421258 ISBN 13:  9780786421251
Verlag: McFarland & Co Inc, 2005
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