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TomBo

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Re: "The" Goddess

Jul 09, 2003, 14:22

Thanks Rhiannon - that's put a slightly different perspective on this for me. I hadn't thought of the way that symbols can refer to other symbols. Here's what I mean...

Take any picture of a deity - let's say a picture of Horus, ancient Egypt's hawk-headed god. This picture of Horus (discovered on a dusty temple wall, you know) is a symbol. What is it a symbol of? Of an archetype in the subconscious mind. I would take it one step further than that, though. This Horus-like archetype in the subconscious mind (shall we call it the sky-god archetype?) is itself a symbol. What does it symbolise? This is the bit that really interests me - it symbolises a power, a law of nature, at work in the universe around us. Such symbolic images in our minds are our inner representation of the world around us (we humans have a mysterious and ineradicable capacity for mythologising the world we live in). They are the place where our inner world meets the world we live in.

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"The" Goddess – TomBo, Jul 08, 2003, 16:04


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