From logos to flags to punctuation marks, symbols are all around us. But we're so used to seeing them that we never question why, for instance, the heart symbol is anatomically incorrect or why the Bluetooth symbol is named after a tenth-century Danish king in need of dental work. Symbols shows j
Symbolism, the universal language
β Scribed by Jean C. Cooper
- Publisher
- Aquarian Press
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 126
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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This long awaited volume is presented here in English for the first time; and since it constitutes one of Guenon's greatest works, its publication must be counted as one of the great literary events of this century. To glance at the chapter headings is to be impressed by the wealth and the variety o
<span><br>In this work, probably the most significant in a modern Western language concerning symbolism, GuΓ©non deals with the metaphysical and cosmological meaning of symbols drawn from traditions as far apart as the Greek and the Buddhist, the Druid, and the Islamic.<br><br></span>
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